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SUMMARY:Responsible Computing and the Climate Crisis: Tools\, Principles\, and Actions (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course surveys several important tools and approaches to understand how digital research impacts the climate\, and what we can do to think through and make responsible decisions as DH researchers. The course will broadly follow the organisation of the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition’s Toolkit (https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/)\, a collaborative project which I have coordinated since its release in 2022 and on which I have subsequently taught several workshops. The toolkit provides advice on minimal computing\, maximal computing\, institutional change\, working practices\, grant writing\, and teaching. \n\n\n\nThe intended audience for the course is broad: it can accommodate graduate students\, academics\, librarians and archivists\, and academic administrators. Given that digital tools (hardware and software) are now ubiquitous and have environmental consequences\, we all have to think carefully about the tools we choose and the ways we consider responsible practices within our professional contexts. \n\n\n\nThis course will offer a blend of hands-on computational work with theoretical reflections and pragmatic suggestions for change\, while also showing how responsible environmental decisions connect to social justice issues. It will rely on accessible hardware and software (e.g.\, laptops and particularly open-source tools). \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nChristopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, where he teaches in the MA programme in the History of the Book. He has been the lead coordinator of the toolkit that the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition released in 2022 and has participated in several events and workshops to highlight the environmental impacts of digital technologies. He is also the author of the book Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives\, Computing\, and Experience (2021) and other writings on nineteenth-century literature\, textual editing\, and digital humanities.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/responsible-computing-and-the-climate-crisis-tools-principles-and-actions-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Publier avec des limites (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nComment publier dans un contexte de limites ? \n\n\n\nLes humanités numériques sont une approche pluridisciplinaire pour la recherche scientifique\, mais constituent aussi une démarche critique par rapport au numérique. L’émergence des grands modèles de langage et leurs intelligences artificielles génératives posent des questions sociales cruciales quand aux modèles épistémologiques et à l’impact écologique qui sous-tendent les technologies de nos sociétés. Ce cours propose d’interroger et de mettre en pratique cette démarche critique propre aux DH dans le champ de la publication\, et plus spécifiquement de la publication scientifique. \n\n\n\nÀ travers une dizaine de séances réparties sur une semaine\, ce cours permet d’appréhender les mécanismes de production et de diffusion de la publication scientifique\, en prenant en considération des limites techniques et énergétiques. Que ce soit dans une perspective d’autonomisation (prépublication\, carnet de recherche\, diffusion autonome\, fanzine de recherche) ou dans un cadre institutionnel plus classique (dépôts institutionnels\, multi-diffusion numérique\, impression à la demande)\, ce cours aborde toutes les questions liées à la publication scientifique dans un contexte de transition écologique\, en souhaitant explorer différentes voies : expérimentales\, alternatives\, marginales ou radicales. Structuration de contenus\, partage et versionnement de documents\, production de formats de sortie standards (XML)\, fabrication de sites web\, création de brochures et de fanzines\, utilisation de l’impression à la demande\, etc.\, autant de techniques qui seront présentées et manipulées. \n\n\n\nTrois objectifs complémentaires sont au cœur de cette proposition : 1. l’acquisition de compétences en publication (imprimée et numérique)\, directement applicables à l’issue du cours ; 2. la compréhension et l’application des principes de low-tech\, de minimal computing\, et de permacomputing\, avec des ressources concrètes ; 3. le développement de chaînes de publication via l’assemblage de logiciels\, de programmes ou de services. \n\n\n\nCette formation s’adresse à toutes personnes de la communauté DH qui interrogent ses pratiques de publication scientifique\, aucun bagage technique n’est demandé\, des connaissances en libre accès/open access sont nécessaires\, quelques connaissances en balisage/HTML/XML sont un plus. \n\n\n\nEnseignant.e(s)\n\n\n\nAntoine Fauchié est maître de conférences (assistant professor) à l’Université Grenoble Alpes\, en France\, où il co-coordonne le Master Métiers du livre et de l’édition. Ses recherches s’inscrivent en sciences de l’information et en études de l’édition\, et portent sur les processus techniques d’édition dans différents domaines éditoriaux\, dont l’édition scientifique\, ainsi que sur les démarches de critique des technologies en lien avec les mouvements dits de low-tech ou de permacomputing (observation\, analyse et expérimentation). Sa thèse\, soutenue en janvier 2024 et intitulée “Fabriquer des éditions\, éditer des fabriques : reconfiguration des processus techniques éditoriaux et nouveaux modèles épistémologiques”\, est une exploration de chaînes d’édition non conventionnelles via des études de cas et la réalisation de prototypes et de modélisations éditoriales (https://these.quaternum.net).
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/publier-avec-des-limites-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Processing Your XML/TEI with the XML Family of Languages (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis class teaches you how to navigate and process XML using tools designed for the purpose–XSLT\, XQuery\, and Schematron. We cover these together as members of the same XML family\, sharing a common syntax in XPath. New and experienced coders of XML will benefit alike from this course\, whether just beginning a project or seeking to update and refresh skills. Our goals are 1) to share strategies for systematically building archives and databases\, and 2) to increase participants’ confidence and fluency in extracting information coded in XML in those archives and databases. XPath is the center of the course\, but we will show you how it applies in multiple XML processing contexts so that you learn how these work similarly and how these are used\, respectively\, to validate documents and to transform them for publication and other reuse. We’ll apply XPath to check for accuracy of text encoding–to write schema rules to manage your coding (or your project team’s coding). \n\n\n\nYou’ll practice and gain fluency in writing XPath expressions and patterns\, including sequence expressions\, regular expressions\, datatypes\, predicates\, operators\, and functions (from the core library and user-defined). We’ll write XPath to calculate how frequently you’ve marked a certain phenomenon\, or locate which names of people are mentioned together in the same chapter\, paragraph\, sentence\, stanza\, or annotation. You’ll learn how XPath can help you to build exciting visualizations from XML code (such as to make a chart like a timeline or a network graph). Whether you are an XML beginner or a more experienced coder\, you’ll find that strengthened skills in XPath and the XML family will help you with systematic encoding\, document processing\, and project management. \n\n\n\nPrerequisites: Some experience with XML markup. No prior experience with programming is required. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nElisa Beshero-Bondar is Program Chair of Digital Media\, Arts\, and Technology and Professor of Digital Humanities at Penn State Erie\, The Behrend College. She teaches undergraduate students to code and build digital projects with the XML family of languages. Elisa led the technical development of the Frankenstein Variorum project combining Python\, XSLT\, and TEI to compare 5 distinct digital versions of the novel Frankenstein. She  is also founder and director of the Digital Mitford Project which has hosted  coding  workshops for graduate students\, faculty\, scholarly editors\, and librarians interested in learning coding and digital project management methods used in the project. She was elected to the TEI Technical Council in 2015\, which she now chairs\, and where she works with ten other members from around the world in revising the TEI Guidelines and schema and supporting the TEI community. \n\n\n\nDavid J. Birnbaum is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in the study of electronic text technology since the mid-1980s\, has delivered presentations at a variety of electronic text technology conferences\, and has served on the board of the Association for Computers and the Humanities\, the editorial board of Markup languages: Theory and practice\, and the Text Encoding Initiative Council. Much of his electronic text work intersects with his research in medieval Slavic manuscript studies\, but he also often writes about issues in the philosophy of markup. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/processing-your-xml-tei-with-the-xml-family-of-languages-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:[Foundations] Intro to Spatial Humanities with GIS (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course is an introduction to the spatial humanities both in practice and theory for those with minimal or no experience. The course will consist of readings\, lectures\, and hands-on practice with basic GIS and other softwares. An emphasis will be placed on spatial humanities as a way of thinking. By the end of the course\, students will have a basic toolset to apply the techniques and theory of spatial humanities to both their research and teaching. This course will combine lecture\, seminar\, and hands-on activities with emphasis on the latter. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nAmanda Madden is an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University and affiliate faculty at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. She teaches digital humanities and history courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her current spatial history projects include Mapping Violence in Early Modern Italy. She is the author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/foundations-intro-to-spatial-humanities-with-gis-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Multimodal Rhetoric\, Digital Writing (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nA longstanding relationship exists between the digital humanities and writing studies as evidenced by journals like Kairos and Computers and Composition Online; however\, in practice\, the multi-faceted and mutually influential relationship between digital technology\, rhetorical theory\, and interdisciplinary writing practices is often underestimated. By centrally orienting this relationship\, our course will explore multimodal writing practices\, theories\, and pedagogy. We consider how rhetorical aims\, digital platforms\, and disciplinary conventions might work together to generate complex\, unconventional ways of writing and opportunities for teaching. Participants will engage in multimodal composing across digital and analog environments\, including open-access platforms like Twine and Audacity. We will also re-purpose everyday materials and software to reconsider rhetorical principles\, such as invention and arrangement. Adopting an interdisciplinary writing studies lens\, we will investigate questions like: \n\n\n\n\nHow do we persuade and engage differently in digital and multimodal spaces?\n\n\n\nHow do we understand what it means to be an author and a reader in different formats or media?\n\n\n\nHow can we adopt co-creation and collaboration as frameworks for inclusive writing practices in digital spaces?\n\n\n\n\nThis course will help faculty\, graduate students\, librarians\, and instructional technologists design assignments and activities for humanities and interdisciplinary courses that include writing. Participants will collaborate on making activities\, crafting and scaffolding assignments\, identifying methods for assessment\, and discussing the relationship between digital making tools\, rhetorical practices\, and writing pedagogy. At the end of the week\, participants will have a strong understanding of ways to incorporate digital writing approaches and tools into their teaching and scholarly communication. \n\n\n\nThis course includes hands-on experiences\, seminar discussion\, and lecture and has no prerequisites. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nDenna Iammarino teaches literature and writing at Case Western Reserve University. Her research combines early modern literature\, multimodality\, digital rhetoric\, and writing studies to consider how the intersections of material culture and rhetoric can shape textual meaning and readerly engagement. More specifically\, her work merges 16th-century literature and book history with contemporary issues of digital pedagogy and publishing to consider how changes in communication technology (like the invention of the printing press or the digital turn) impacts what it means to be an author\, a text\, and a reader. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals and edited collections\, she is also co-editor of and a contributor to the critical collection entitled John Derricke’s The Image of Ireland\, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne: Essays on Text and Contexts (Manchester UP\, 2021) as well as a co-creator of a digital edition of the same work. \n\n\n\nKristine Kelly teaches in the Writing Program at Case Western Reserve University. Her classes\, which include “Digital Literature\,” “Interactive Storytelling\,” and “Writing across Media” encourage students to develop as thinkers\, writers\, and makers in diverse rhetorical contexts. Kristine’s research and scholarship focus on digital literary studies and post-colonial and contemporary Anglophone literature and cultures\, especially related to travel and mobility. Her work\, published in forums like ARIEL\, Paradoxa (Small Screen Fictions issue)\, and the recent collection The Ruptured Commons\, explores how individuals forge paths\, grounded and digital\, in global\, networked spaces. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/multimodal-rhetoric-digital-writing-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools\, Methods\, and Projects (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course will help faculty\, staff\, and instructional technologists conceptualize\, design\, and explore approaches to teaching digital book history and digital publishing. The course will provide readings on the history of the book and the book after the digital turn\, and together we will discuss ways to immerse students in archival\, editorial\, and analytical practices regardless of their access to material books in special collections. Throughout the week\, we will explore digital tools and platforms and consider how to best adapt them for a variety of educational contexts. We will collaborate on designing and scaffolding assignments\, consider methods for assessment\, and collectively build a repository of resources\, links\, and prompts. At the end of the week\, participants will leave with a fully designed assignment or workshop plan and a better understanding of how to incorporate digital tools within their book history/digital publishing lessons and courses. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nAndie Silva (she/her) is Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the City University of New York (York College and CUNY Graduate Center). Her research interests lie at the intersection of book history and print culture\, popular culture\, and digital humanities. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals\, Silva is also author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (Brill 2019) and co-editor\, with Scott Schofield\, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (Iter Press 2024) and Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses\, with Sarah E. Parker (Arc Humanities Press 2023).
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/digital-pedagogy-and-the-book-tools-methods-and-projects-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:[Foundations] DH Sample Platter (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nHave you ever looked at the wide variety of courses offered at DHSI and wondered what all those technical terms mean? Or had problems deciding on which technologies might be best suited for your work or most interesting to pursue further? This course is meant to provide a broad overview of technologies that are often used (and talked about) in the Digital Humanities. While it cannot (and is not meant to) serve as a replacement for any of the technology-focused workshops at DHSI\, this course can provide a foundation to help you make informed decisions on where to direct further studies as well as get you over the initial hurdle. Each technology will be approached through a mixture of lectures and exercises. \n\n\n\nWe will survey the following technologies and methods: \n\n\n\n\nShell: A Shell allows you to control your computer using text commands and to automate repeated workflows\n\n\n\nImage and video editing: Learn some basic image and video editing techniques\n\n\n\nAudio recording and editing: Learn how to record audio and edit these recordings\n\n\n\nXML and text encoding: Text encoding forms the basis of many DH projects. Learn about XML and how to use it to encode texts\n\n\n\nText analysis: Learn some basic text analysis techniques using Voyant and Python\n\n\n\n3D Modelling: A brief introduction to creating 3D models\n\n\n\nContent Management Systems: How to use Content Management systems such as Omeka to create DH projects.\n\n\n\n\nThis course will have lectures\, demoes\, and hands-on components. It is a good foundation for all tool- and technology-oriented DHSI offerings. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nMarkus Wust is Head of User Services at the University of Tübingen Library where he teaches workshops and courses in Data and Information Literacy. He holds Master’s degrees in German Literature (University of Georgia\, USA) as well as Library and Information Studies and Humanities Computing (University of Alberta\, Canada). \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/foundations-dh-sample-platter-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Creating Digital Collections with Minimal Infrastructure: Hands On With CollectionBuilder for Teaching and Exhibits (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course introduces fundamental web and DH skills using CollectionBuilder\, an open source framework for building digital collection and exhibit websites driven by metadata and hosted on a lightweight infrastructure. The high cost and IT requirements of digital collection platforms are often a barrier to creating new collections for sharing or teaching humanities research. CollectionBuilder is optimized for non-developers and simple hosting solutions\, allowing researchers to take greater ownership over their digital projects and lowering barriers to customization. Scholars in this course will learn CollectionBuilder by engaging in a scaffolded approach with hands-on experience in digital library foundations such as accessibility\, metadata creation\, and web development. Building on these skills\, students will learn the basics of working with plain text files\, CSV data\, Markdown\, Jekyll\, Git\, GitHub\, and GitHub Pages in order to create and customize their very own digital collection. By the end of this course\, students will have gained the knowledge and independence necessary to implement CollectionBuilder in contexts that include creating and disseminating research collections and custom digital exhibits\, or teaching digital libraries in the classroom. They will also have built their own digital exhibit\, such as those built by our previous DHSI classes in 2023\, 2024\, and 2025. \n\n\n\nNo programming experience is necessary\, although you should have a strong interest to learn! Participants are asked to bring their own computers. All software used in the course is free\, open source\, and cross platform and will be installed during class time. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nOlivia Wikle is the Head of Digital Scholarship and Initiatives at Iowa State University\, where she collaborates on projects involving digital scholarship\, digital collections\, and the institutional repository. She is a co-developer of the CollectionBuilder (https://collectionbuilder.github.io/) static web framework\, and her research interests include sustainability in digital libraries and digital literacy instruction. \n\n\n\nEvan Peter Williamson is the Digital Infrastructure Librarian and Head of Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies at the University of Idaho Library\, working with the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning to bring cool projects\, enlightening workshops\, and innovative services to life. Despite a background in Art History\, Classical Studies\, and Archives\, he always manages to get involved in all things digital. His recent focus has been on data driven\, minimal infrastructure web development\, currently embodied in the CollectionBuilder project. \n\n\n\nDevin Becker is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) and the Associate Dean of Research and Instruction at the University of Idaho Library. His recent CollectionBuilder-based digital scholarship projects include Storying Extinction\,  Keeping Watch\, and Tender Spaces.  His first book of poetry\, Shame | Shame\, won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions Ltd. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/creating-digital-collections-with-minimal-infrastructure-hands-on-with-collectionbuilder-for-teaching-and-exhibits-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:[Foundations] Race and Social Justice: Methods and Applications (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nOver the past five years we have seen a proliferation of academic job advertisements\, publications\, and discussions demonstrating ways in which race and social justice can be engaged in digital humanities scholarship. Interest by students and local communities in technological advancements through Web 2.0\, social media\, and mobile phones are permitting new forms of research and practice. #transformDH\, #DHpoco\, #femDH\, and #BlackLivesMatter have helped to challenge the all-white discourse\, often dominated by scholars in the disciplines of English and history\, that is too often found in digital humanities. What happens to students in digital humanities methods classes who bring non-traditional bodies into this world? There have been discussions how to insure that syllabi and materials for digital humanities classes are inclusive – specifically\, how an introductory DH methods class keeps race\, social justice\, and inclusivity as cornerstones in their pedagogy. The traditional divides witnessed in the tech world will only be replicated in the world of both undergraduate and graduate DH courses without attention to race\, social justice\, etc. This week-long class will show how\, through an interdisciplinary intersectional and CRT framework\, both race and social justice can be central to any DH teaching\, pedagogy\, and practice. The course will pay special attention to queer theory\, critical ethnic studies\, postcolonial theory\, WOC/Black feminism\, Indigenous studies\, and disability studies as they currently help to reshape digital humanities teaching and methods across our university/college classrooms. \n\n\n\nThis course combines lecture\, seminar\, and hands-on activities. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nDorothy Kim teaches at Brandeis University. She is the co-editor of Disrupting DH and Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities. . \n\n\n\nJordan Clapper is an Assistant Professor of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University. His research interests include indigenous video games\, indigenous literature\, queer games\, narrative theory\, queer theory\, and digital humanities.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/foundations-race-and-social-justice-methods-and-applications-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Markup\, Maps\, and Multimedia: Building Digital Projects with COVE (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course introduces graduate students\, university faculty\, and independent scholars in the humanities to some foundational tools and critical frameworks within digital scholarship\, with an emphasis on developing publishable projects. Using the open-access\, scholar-led platform COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education)\, participants will explore how digital tools deepen analysis\, expand communication\, and support public-facing research—all without prior technical experience. \n\n\n\nThe course blends technical fluency\, theoretical grounding\, and collaborative creativity. Participants will gain accessible entry points into the digital humanities\, including text encoding\, spatial analysis\, and introductory coding. Each will design a project—such as an annotated edition\, dynamic timeline\, map\, or multimedia gallery—using COVE Studio and COVE Editions. \n\n\n\nHands-on sessions will introduce TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for semantic markup and HTML for web publishing. Participants will also work with IIIF-compliant images to build interactive maps\, timelines\, and curated galleries\, learning to upload\, reorganize\, annotate\, and apply art historical metadata—skills especially valuable for scholars of literature\, visual culture\, and material history. \n\n\n\nThis multimodal approach highlights how visual\, textual\, and digital forms intersect to tell complex stories. By the end\, participants will have developed a solid foundation in digital humanities methods and a project-in-progress for future inclusion in research\, teaching\, or public humanities initiatives. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nKate Faber Oestreich is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature\, adaptation studies\, and the ways multimodal and digital forms reshape reading and teaching practices. She is co-author\, with Jennifer Camden\, of Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (2018)\, and her articles appear in Adaptation\, Brontë Studies\, South Atlantic Review\, Victorians Institute Journal\, Nineteenth Century Studies\, and several edited collections. Her recent work examines how immersive and interactive environments—from YouTube adaptations to collaborative digital editions—extend and transform nineteenth-century texts. She is Pedagogy Consultant for the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE)\, where she has co-led international workshops on COVE Editions and Studio and developed resources for integrating annotation\, timelines\, and mapping into humanities courses. Her professional service includes roles as Executive Secretary for the North American Victorian Studies Association\, Deputy Associate Director (Digital) for the Centre of Nineteenth-Century Studies International\, and board member of INCSA\, INCS\, and NCSA. Through this work and her leadership with COVE\, she has helped to develop and sustain the field’s digital and organizational infrastructure\, from collaborative teaching platforms to membership and communication systems.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/markup-maps-and-multimedia-building-digital-projects-with-cove-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:LLMs from Prompts to Pipelines for Text & Media Analysis & Creativity (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThe course offers an effective hands-on intro and further deployable deliverables in large-language-model (LLM) deployment and adaptation\, natural language processing (NLP)\, text and media analysis\, and text and/or media corpus network visualization and analysis. \n\n\n\nWe will harness the power and amplitude of LLMs and other computing resources in analyzing single/discrete datums as well as big data and corpora\, be they text or media or both. The skills\, affordances\, methods\, and concepts will be paced and assembled into pipelines starting from locating\, collecting/scraping\, and (pre)processing relevant datasets\, continuing by deploying/engineering best-fit LLMs and specialized libraries and developing algorithms for multi-feature data analysis\, and culminating with fine-grained holistic networked assemblages modeling and scrutinizing the datasets in depth and comparatively across corpora and media. \n\n\n\nWe will be doing coding in Python and learning how to use (and compare) transformer-based\, (sub)word\, text\, and media modeling open-source LLMs/frameworks such as GPT (3.5.\, 4.1.\, 5\, and later)\, Mistral\, (Nomic/Meta-)LLaMa\, GPT-NeoX\, T5\, OLMo\, (M)BERT\, and a host of others in concurrence with a wide-range of relevant libraries and related APIs including Scikit-learn\, NLTK\, Sentence-Transformers\, Hugging-Face-based models\, FastText\, and Stanza/SpaCy (displaCy)\, involving embeddings with text classifiers and/or image/video/audio vectorization\, e.g..\, Deep Learning architectures\, CLIP\, MediaPipe\, TensorFlow & Keras\, Pytorch\, LibROSA\, etc. In the context\, we will learn how to zero/few-shot prompt\, fine-tune or train our (own) LLMs and incorporate them into our task-specific Python pipelines. \n\n\n\nAfter using BeautifulSoup\, Selenium\, and pytesseract (Python-tesseract) to automatically collect and (if needed) OCR our data\, the subsequent computational analyses will be translated to networks ranging from plain (single-layer) graphs to multiplexes to most general multilayer networks to be visualized and/or analyzed by means of NetworkX or\, in the more specific or complex cases\, in-house/indie algorithms. The translation to networks will also involve correlations between various forms of vectorization applied to text (and/as inter)media as coexistent in or combined into modeling the data. The LLMs called into and adapted for our scripts and environments will make the difference in critical respects such as dynamic data curation and searching\, trans-quantitative and/(f)or qualitative analysis\, finesse-level processing and mega-scale coverage. \n\n\n\nOn the fifth day (Friday\, June 19th)\, everybody will have the opportunity to participate in the #GraphPoem event\, an intermedia social computing and data-commoning performance drawing on the algorithms\, methods\, and programming presented or developed in class. \n\n\n\nThe knowledge and skills acquired—alongside our in-class applications—will be useful in education\, research\, and analytical-creative work involving LLM-informed coding\, NLP\, automated text and (mono and multilingual) corpus analysis\, network science (or graph theory) applications\, inter/trans-disciplinary text (and) media studies\, computational literary studies/analysis/criticism\, computational linguistics\, multimodal and intermedia(lity) studies and creativity\, HCI & AI creative writing and experimental/intersemiotic/literary translation\, digital editions\, digital poetry/e-lit/digital art\, social (media/network) analysis\, complexity studies in/and social science\, and applications in the philosophy of mathematics and computation. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nChris Tănăsescu is a poet and academic with backgrounds in English and computer science. The Graph Poem project he started 15 years ago has outputted natural language processing and network science-based poetry classifiers\, intermedia performances\, and computationally assembled poetry anthologies. His alias MARGENTO refers to a cyber cross-artform ensemble and international coalition of poets-translators\, visual artists/musicians\, and coders/AI throwing events and launching publications on and off-line in four continents since 2001 and at DHSI (#GraphPoem) since 2019. Chris is currently a DH Research Scientist at the University of Galway while continuing his affiliation as Senior Researcher in Global Literary Studies and Complex Systems at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Previous or ongoing positions and affiliations include Coordinator of Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa\, Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics at Université Catholique de Louvain\, and Visiting Scholar at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab\, University of Victoria. His latest publications include Literature and Computation (Routledge 2024) and A Computationally Assembled Anthology of Contemporary Belgian Poetry [MARGENTO\, collective ed.] (co-edited with Raluca Tanasescu\, featuring John Taylor as main translator\, Peter Lang 2025). \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/llms-from-prompts-to-pipelines-for-text-media-analysis-creativity-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Immersive Scholarship 101 (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nParticipants will explore the nature and range of spatial data\, immersive interfacing (AR/VR) hardware\, and the unique scholarly benefits that this combination affords. Information professionals – including IT\, library\, and instructional technologists – will survey the associated hardware and software landscape and related (3D printing\, scanning\, and preservation) tools. In addition to theoretical background and practical methods\, participants will be given the opportunity produce and inhabit virtual worlds\, populated by their own 3D scans\, objects from their chosen discipline\, and generative AI (text-to-3D) content. Participants will leave with a working knowledge of the 3D/XR landscape\, hands-on content creation – including 3D scanning – experience\, and a fully customized virtual world that can be shared with colleagues after DHSI. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nMatt Cook Digital Scholarship Program Manager at Harvard Library. As a proven expert across the entire 3D data lifecycle; Matt regularly consults on scanning (e.g.photogrammetry)\, immersive (AR/VR) data analytics\, and rapid prototyping (3D printing) processes that span disciplines. Matt studied Philosophy at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has since published R&D in multiple fields\, including Architecture\, Chemistry\, Information Science\, and a range of Humanities. Currently he is developing automated workflows that combine the use of handwriting transcription technologies\, genAI\, and the Metaverse. Please check out mncook.net for more information. \n\n\n\nBrian Leach is Technology Support Coordinator with Creative Technologies at Harvard Library. As a member of the management team that supports the Tech Lending program at Cabot Science Library\, Brian regularly interacts with patrons (faculty\, students and staff) to teach to; One. How to use AR/VR technology (Such as the Meta Quest series of headsets) in classes; Two. To support individual use for research purposes. In addition\, Brian maintains the Cabot Library Media Studios used for video/podcast recordings. He also supports other technologies such as the new library 3D printing service. Currently\, he is researching new technologies to integrate into the Tech lending program while supporting classes using VR technology. For more information\, please email Brian at brian_leach@harvard.edu.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/immersive-scholarship-101-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Field of Recovery and Its Role within the Classroom (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course aims to introduce educators to the field of recovery and its value as a pedagogical tool. The course will begin by introducing the goals of recovery and what it may look like in practice: from projects incorporating creative expression\, gaming\, and other multi-disciplinary approaches for interrogating or speculating upon archival silences; to projects working to protect or promote texts\, materials\, or perspectives that have been ignored\, overshadowed\, dismissed or forgotten. Following this introduction\, course instructors will guide participants through the process of planning a recovery project for their classroom. We will conclude by discussing resources that will support participants in continuing project planning well beyond the end of the workshop. The intended audience for this workshop is educators who are working with students of any age group/level. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nKatie Blizzard is the Managing Director of eLaboratories and a research editor at the Center for Digital Editing\, where she supports the editorial practices of community and partner projects. She holds a BA in Anthropology and History\, and a master in public administration. Blizzard contributes to the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) e-newsletter and served as secretary for the ADE from 2021 to 2023. \n\n\n\nNoelle Baker\, an independent scholar\, is Editor-in-Chief of Scholarly Editing\, an open-access\, peer reviewed journal archived by the U.S. Library of Congress and distributed by the University of Virginia Press. She is the editor of Stanton in Her Own Time (Iowa\, 2016)\, the co-editor of Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Library of America\, 2025) and The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition (Women Writers Online\, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University\, ongoing)\, and the author of essays on American literature and culture published in journals such as ESQ\, The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies\, Poe Studies\, and Resources for American Literary Study. Currently\, Baker serves as an NHPRC Commissioner\, steering committee member for the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers\, and eLabs advisory board member; previous roles include co-chair of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions and president of The Association for Documentary Editing.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/exploring-the-field-of-recovery-and-its-role-within-the-classroom-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Engaging Play (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis class provides students with hands on experience with games and their uses in the humanities classroom. The focus of our course is to learn how games are structured\, how they function and how they can become an integral part of a humanities curriculum. Participants will learn to use Twine and incorporate game narratives into their own classes. Taught by Jeffrey Lawler and Sean Smith\, co-directors of the Center for the History of Video Games\, Technology and Critical Play\, the course covers a variety of topics such as game theory and questions that games\, including tabletops and video games\, raise within humanities disciplines. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nSean Smith is a full-time lecturer of U.S. history at California State University\, Long Beach. He is the Co-Director of The Center for History of Video Games & Critical Play (criticalplay.org). He writes about video games\, digital history\, \n\n\n\nJeffrey Lawler is co-director of the Center for the History of Video Games\, Technology and Critical Play at California State University\, Long Beach\, where he is a full-time lecturer. Current research examines arcades as radicalized leisure spaces in Los Angeles County in the 1970s and 80s. Recent publications include “The Historical Environment as Aged Icon in the Gamed West\,” in Comparative American Studies\, and the forthcoming chapter “Imagining the Other: Historical Possibilities and Teaching American History with Twine\,” to be published in EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/engaging-play-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:DH for Librarians (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course will focus on the processes and methods of digital humanities and how they intersect with librarianship practice. We will start by considering big picture questions: how have librarians approached “doing DH” and “supporting DH” in libraries\, what has the practice of DH librarianship been\, and what could the future of DH in libraries be? From there\, we will survey different aspects of DH in librarianship in more detail\, including assessment and strategic planning\, reference and consultation\, instruction\, project management\, and collaborative partnerships. Along the way\, we will explore key resources\, methods\, and tools\, as well as threshold concepts\, data literacy\, and relationships to other parts of academic libraries. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nLeigh Bonds is an Associate Professor and the Digital Humanities Librarian at The Ohio State University. For the last nine years\, she has led campus digital humanities efforts\, consulted with faculty and graduate students on research and curricula\, and collaborated on several projects. She served on the programming committee for DLFxDHSI Unconference in 2018\, taught sessions at ARL’s Digital Scholarship Institute in 2019 and 2021\, and taught “DH for Librarians” in 2024. Leigh’s publications on DH librarianship and pedagogy include “Facilitating Course [Re]Design: A Programmatic Approach to DH Integration\,” “Preparing\, Facilitating\, Assessing: A Reflection on Digital Humanities Consultations\,” and “First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan.” \n\n\n\nJohn Russell is an Associate Librarian and Associate Director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. From 2015-2022\, he taught “Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians” and “Introduction to Text Encoding” for Library Juice Academy. John is co-author of “Beyond Buttonology: Digital Humanities\, Digital Pedagogy\, and the ACRL Framework” and “Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop\,” as well as articles on computer vision and art history\, digital humanities librarianship\, and collection assessment. John is also past editor-in-chief of dh+lib.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/dh-for-librarians-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Convivial Machine Learning (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nIvan Illich wrote of the alphabet and the printing press that they are “almost ideally convivial” because “anybody can learn to use them\, and for [their] own purpose. They use cheap materials. People can take them or leave them as they wish. They are not easily controlled by third parties” (Illich\, Tools for Conviviality\, 1973). Yet\, these affordances of the alphabet and the printing press\, as described by Illich\, came after centuries of the parallel development of technical innovations and social practices which made these technologies convivial. \n\n\n\nIn this course\, we will take a historical and speculative route to interrogate what lessons from manuscript and print culture we can apply to design and think machine learning tools that are open and convivial. We can draw a straight line from the alphabet (the discretization of speech sounds into letters) and the printing press (the first mechanical means of textual (re)production) to machine learning. Through a series of digital and analog experimental projects\, we will situate machine learning within a history of radical and innovative writing technologies that can serve as models for designing and thinking more convivial machine learning systems. \n\n\n\nSpecifically\, students will learn how to use open-source language models locally\, build their own small-scale language models\, and learn how to use open-source and powerful transcription models. They will also learn how to document their process digitally and materially with small\, hand-made publications. Through this mix of historical inquiry and hands-on experimentation\, students will have developed practical skills in working with open machine learning tools and developed a reflection on how to design interactions and technologies that enhance human autonomy and creativity. \n\n\n\nNo prerequisites are required for this class. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nGabrielle Benabdallah is a Sloan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle\, where her research explores the materiality of knowledge production\, from print culture to artificial intelligence. With a background in comparative literature and textual studies\, she has dedicated the past seven years to working and publishing in the fields of human-computer interaction and interaction design. Currently\, she is focused on examining the influence of AI-augmented tools on practices in scientific publishing.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/convivial-machine-learning-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:AVAnnotate Open Source Application for Audiovisual Digital Exhibits and Editions (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThis course introduces participants to AVAnnotate\, an open-source digital humanities tool for creating annotated audiovisual exhibits. Through hands-on exercises with sample media\, participants will learn how to set up projects\, create annotations for accessibility and research\, and explore case studies in teaching and scholarship. By the end of the week\, participants will have built and presented their own projects\, gaining practical skills for integrating audiovisual materials into digital research and pedagogy. \n\n\n\nPrerequisites: No technical prerequisites are required. Familiarity with basic digital tools and an interest in working with audiovisual collections will be helpful\, but all levels of experience are welcome. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nJack DeVry Riordan is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on contemporary Cuban cinema\, and the ways in which digital humanities tools can be used for the curation and sharing of audiovisual works. Since September 2025\, he has been working with AVAnnotate\, exploring how digital annotation and archival practices can expand access to and engagement with audiovisual materials. More broadly\, his work bridges film studies and digital humanities\, with an emphasis on fostering new methods of preserving and disseminating cultural memory.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/avannotate-open-source-application-for-audiovisual-digital-exhibits-and-editions-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Automatic Text Recognition of Historical Documents: Building Text Corpora and Datasets (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nThe course will be an introduction to automatic text recognition technologies\, focusing on the example of Kraken and eScriptorium but including an overview of other existing solutions. At the end of the course\, participants will have a better understanding of machine learning through the example of automatic text recognition\, will have first-hand experience using transcription software\, producing data and models\, as well as publishing and reusing special datasets for training transcription models. They will be able to understand how to organize a transcription campaign individually or as a team while complying with existing standards for annotation. The course is intended for participants with little to or no knowledge about automatic transcription. Students\, librarians\, and all scholars are welcome. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nAlix Chagué is a specialist in automatic text recognition applied to historical documents. Her PhD thesis\, which she will defend in 2026\, especially focuses on questions relating to Open Science and data creation for using and training transcription models. She has contributed to the development of several essential infrastructures for the advancement of automatic transcription\, among which the open source application Scriptorium and the ecosystem for the publication of reusable gold data for text recognition HTR-United. Since 2019\, she has taught several workshops introducing automatic text recognition and its software solutions to beginners or advanced users.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/automatic-text-recognition-of-historical-documents-building-text-corpora-and-datasets-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:20+ hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Agile Project Management for Humanities Research (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nAgile project management is about negotiating the completion of a project from beginning to end while remaining flexible. Being patient and delaying decisions until you have to make them\, gathering as much information as you can in the meantime\, and then taking action with the information you have\, always keeping alternatives in mind in case your first plan of action doesn’t pan out. It’s about more than just negotiating within the rules. It’s about changing the rules of the game to better ensure a successful project. \n\n\n\nOver the course of the week\, participants will learn about how different teams could approach managing different aspects of a project. Participants will explore applying these to their own project(s). By the end of the week\, participants will have an initial plan of action for managing their own project(s). \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nOver the years\, James Smith has had computing interests that include exploring REST\, linked open data\, and other components of the web-as-platform as a foundation for building sharable\, long-lived digital contributions to the humanities. More recently\, he has focused on emphasizing the human element in computing. \n\n\n\nClick here for an example of previous syllabus and course material (2025)
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/agile-project-management-for-humanities-research-dhsi-2026/
LOCATION:Université de Montréal\, 3150 Rue Jean Brillant\, Montreal\, Québec\, H3T 1N7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Multimodal Time Series Analysis with Python for Humanists (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nData sets with rich underlying temporal dynamics are ubiquitous across the Humanities. A non-exhaustive list includes oral history interviews\, medieval chronicles\, news streams\, diaries\, as well as biographies. Even songs\, poems\, and novels can be approached as temporal data. Time series analysis is a branch of modern data science aiming to investigate temporal dynamics; it is an analytical and exploratory framework to study events and their relationship to time. It also offers groundbreaking solutions to explore temporal data that is unfolding through various modalities. For instance\, an oral history interview is unfolding through different modalities or layers such as the textual content by the speaker\, and the speaker’s body posture and eye movement. The overall goal of this course is to provide a practical introduction to single- and multimodal time series analysis tailored for humanists who have basic programming skills in Python. Specifically\, our course has three goals. \n\n\n\nFirst\, it aims to teach the basic operations in time series analysis such as slicing\, time stamping\, and aggregation. As part of this\, the course will guide participants through the process of transforming Humanities data sets into time series. We will discuss how existing essentially non-temporal data sets (such as a poem) can be treated as time series. We will also show how LLMs can help in the process of annotating time series and producing multimodal time series. \n\n\n\nSecond\, our course will prepare participants to analyse the resulting time series. Participants will get acquainted with key concepts of time series analysis such as waiting time\, recurrence\, and frequency\, and their connections to multimodality. \n\n\n\nFinally\, we will also teach some rudimentary statistical frameworks (survival analysis\, time-to-event analysis\, trend and seasonal analysis) to extract meaningful information from single- and multimodal time series. \n\n\n\nParticipants will be encouraged to bring their own data and work with that throughout the course\, which will be structured as follows. In the mornings\, we will offer more theory oriented sessions. By contrast\, the afternoons will be devoted to practice and programming. We will provide reusable code in the format of Jupyter notebooks. \n\n\n\nAs a whole\, after our course\, students will be able to explore and analyse single- and multimodal temporal dynamics in a rich array of Humanities data sets\, and raise meaningful questions related to the underlying temporal dynamics. \n\n\n\nThis course is for a broad Humanist audience who already has experience with Python and does data intensive research. \n\n\n\nInstructor(s)\n\n\n\nGabor Mihaly Toth is a research scientist at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg; he is the principal investigator of “Voices from Auschwitz: Unlocking the Collective Memory with the Multimodal Analysis of Survivor Testimonies” project; before joining the University of Luxembourg\, he had worked at the University of Southern California and Yale University. \n\n\n\nMohamed Laib is Data Science researcher in the Trustworthy AI group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology\, with a solid foundation in statistics and machine learning. His work focuses on leveraging these skills to tackle complex real-world challenges.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/introduction-to-multimodal-time-series-analysis-with-python-for-humanists-dhsi-2026/
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SUMMARY:[Foundations] Outils numériques et études littéraires: vers de nouvelles perspectives critiques (DHSI 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Description \n\n\n\nCe cours propose un aperçu des méthodes numériques appliquées aux études littéraires. Il s’adresse aux débutant·e·s intéressé·e·s par le potentiel du numérique dans leurs recherches et souhaitant découvrir une diversité de techniques. Nous explorerons des exemples novateurs de recherches en études littéraires\, en abordant les méthodes et la gestion des données qui les rendent possibles. Une approche critique guidera l’introduction de plusieurs méthodes\, telles que l’analyse automatisée des textes\, la stylométrie\, la cartographie numérique et l’analyse computationnelle d’images. À l’issue de ce parcours\, divisé entre ateliers pratiques et discussions théoriques\, les participant·e·s auront une meilleure compréhension des méthodes computationnelles appliquées à une variété de perspectives critiques. Il sera possible ensuite d’approfondir leur expertise de manière autonome ou en participant à d’autres formations spécialisées du DHSI. \n\n\n\nCe cours sera enseigné en français\, avec des lectures et des exemples tirés de différentes langues\, y compris l’anglais. \n\n\n\nEnseignant.e.s \n\n\n\nDavid Joseph Wrisley est professeur titulaire en humanités numériques à la New York University Abu Dhabi (Émirats arabes unis). Il a obtenu son doctorat à Princeton en langues et littératures romanes\, avec une spécialisation en littérature médiévale comparée. Il s’intéresse à l’application des méthodes computationnelles en sciences humaines\, particulièrement dans les contextes multilingues et non-anglophones. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur le développement de modèles de reconnaissance d’écriture manuscrite (en latin\, arabe et français médiéval) ainsi que sur d’autres usages de l’intelligence artificielle dans l’étude des sources historiques. Depuis plus de 20 ans\, il est engagé dans l’interdisciplinarité et la collaboration dans les pays du monde arabe. Avant de s’installer à Abou Dhabi\, il a enseigné à l’American University of Beirut (Liban) de 2002 à 2016. A présent il co-dirige le Paris Bible Project (parisbible.github.io) et le groupe de recherche OpenGulf (opengulf.github.io). \n\n\n\nParham Aledavood est candidat au doctorat en littérature\, option humanités numériques\, à l’Université de Montréal. Sa recherche doctorale est soutenue par une bourse du Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). En associant la théorie postcoloniale\, les études planétaires et les humanités numériques\, sa recherche actuelle porte sur une analyse computationnelle du traumatisme et du genre dans les romans de migration contemporains. À partir de septembre 2024\, il est le directeur adjoint du Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). \n\n\n\nCliquez ici pour accéder au matériel pédagogique du DHSI 2025
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/foundations-outils-numeriques-et-etudes-litteraires-vers-de-nouvelles-perspectives-critiques-dhsi-2026/
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