Creating Space: A Q&A with Oral Historian Elio Colavito

Mar 28, 2023 | CDHI Blog

For Elio Colavito, oral history allows queer and trans people to speak “to and through the historical record” toward a history that allows them to simply be people, with their own rich lives and experiences and stories. But what of the process of hearing...

Water Scarcity & Transformation: A Q&A with Shanmugapriya T

Mar 13, 2023 | CDHI Blog

First up in our Spotlight on Emerging Scholars Series: Dr. Shanmugapriya T discusses her work employing the cutting-edge features of digital humanities and literature to study water scarcity issues in her home of Coimbatore — and explains how digital mapping can be...

Linked Parliamentary Data Project (LiPaD)

Jul 30, 2021 | Archived projects, Contemporary, Early Modern/Modern, North America

Archived Project Website: https://www.lipad.ca/ Description: The first machine-readable and fully searchable historical transcript of Parliamentary Debates (“Hansard”), which provides a 150-year running record of Canadian political history. We have linked these data...

Make Believe: The Secret Library of M. Prud’homme

Jul 29, 2021 | Ancient World, Archived projects, Contemporary, Early Modern/Modern, Europe, Middle Ages, North America

Archived Project Website: http://www.prudhommelibrary.ca/ Instagram: prudhommelibrary Description: Make Believe showcases forged and faked objects created through collaborations between Canadian writers and artists. The workshops associated with the digital and...

Serai: Premodern Encounters

Jul 29, 2021 | Archived projects, Early Modern/Modern, Europe, Middle Ages, Middle East

Archived Project Website:http://serai.utsc.utoronto.ca/ Description: As an explicitly trans-disciplinary space, Serai offers researchers, teachers, and students at all stages of their careers a digital meeting place where they can share resources, exchange ideas, and...