Join CDHI's emerging scholars as they present their latest research in virtual lightning talks. The Emerging Scholar Showcase is an opportunity for CDHI's postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate fellows working in critical digital humanities to share their research with the University of Toronto community. View and download the event program. The event is virtual via zoom. […]
Over the course of Day of DH, the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at University of Toronto will be posting social media and blog content to showcase a range of research in the area of critical DH--digital humanities bringing together the humanities' critique of power and historical perspectives for socially transformative research.
From PhD to Pivot is a workshop designed by Dr. Jen Polk for current graduate students and postdoctoral fellows affiliated with the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at the University of Toronto.
Please join us on September 20, 2022 for University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) first Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on "Critical Infrastructure". Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. Prof. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, […]
Topic: Website Development Guest Expert: Matthew Lefaive (Digital Humanities Developer) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86122951329
Please join us on October 11, 2022 for University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) second Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on "Public Scholarship and Knowledge Mobilization." Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. […]
Topic: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Guest Experts: Kelli Babcock (Digital Initiatives Librarian) & Rachel Di Cresce (Project Librarian) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82025997540
Join us on October 24, 2022 for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) first praxis workshop of the 2022-2023 academic year on "Visualizing Relationships: A Friendly Introduction to Working with Networks using Gephi." A network is a way of specifying relationships among a collection of entities or actors. Networks come up in a variety of […]
Topic: Gephi Guest Expert: Kelly Schultz, Data Visualization Librarian Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87698587068
Elaine Treharne is Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches Manuscript and Archival Studies, and Early British Literatures. She co-directs Stanford Manuscript Sciences, and she is currently working on the fourth edition of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) […]
Please join us on Tuesday, November 15 at 12pm for University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative’s (CDHI’s) third Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on “Digital Pets.” Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. Dr. […]
Join us on November 21, 2022 for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative’s (CDHI’s) second praxis workshop of the 2022-2023 academic year on “Media Training for Humanities Researchers." This workshop is designed to help humanities researchers understand the benefits of engaging with the media, learn what makes a story a good fit for media coverage, and […]
Topic: Media Engagement Guest Experts: Josslyn Johnstone & Sean Bettam (Comms & Media Relations Specialists) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83156754777
Join us on Monday, January 23 at 2 pm for a CDHI praxis workshop on "Intro to SPARQL with WikiData Query Service." In this workshop you will learn to understand the basics of linked data and how it differs from unstructured and structured data. The workshop will consist of demonstrations, group activities, and interactive exercises […]
CDHI is pleased to welcome Dr. Connie Crompton as the second guest in our 2022-23 Visiting Speaker Series. Dr. Crompton is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. She is the Vice-President (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, Director […]
Please join us for the first Digital Drop-In of 2023 on Thursday, February 9th (1:00-2:00 PM), held on SPARQL with Wikidata Query Service! Drop by with your questions for this week's experts: David Kwasny (Data and Digital Literacy Librarian) and Alex Jung (Open Knowledge Specialist). Whether you're entirely new to the SPARQL language/Wikidata, or have […]
Please join us February 17, 2023 at 12pm for the fourth in our CDHI's Lightning Lunch series of 2022-2023, a conversation on how the digital humanities approaches working with new and old data, including its ethics and the afterlives. Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme […]
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Please join us on Monday, March 13 at 2 pm for our final praxis workshop of the year on Data Modeling, Digital Tools, and Research at the Women Writers Project! This workshop will offer an exploration of digital tools, methods, and research initiatives that support the Women Writers Project, a long-standing digital humanities research project […]
Please join us on March 15, 2023 at 12pm for University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) fifth Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on "Building DH Labs and Makerspace," examining the possibilities and challenges of creating diverse digital humanities spaces for research and scholarship. Lightning Lunches are short meetings […]