Description Ce cours initie les participant·es à découvrir l’écosystème Wikimédia et à ses applications dans l’enseignement postsecondaire et la recherche académique. Les participant·es apprendront le fonctionnement de Wikipédia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons et d’autres projets Wiki, ainsi que la manière dont ces outils peuvent être utilisés pour favoriser la pensée critique, enseigner les enjeux liés à […]

Description This course is an introductory level course on textual analysis and visualization, with a specific focus on Voyant Tools and Spyral Notebooks. The course will consist of readings, demonstration of tools, hands-on training on Voyant Tools and Spyral Notebooks. Our intended audience is students, librarians, staff and enthusiasts from different disciplines who study texts. […]

Description Computational text analysis offers powerful tools to explore patterns of style, meaning, and theme in large bodies of text. This intensive, intermediate-level course provides hands-on training in three foundational methods widely used in digital humanities and computational linguistics. Designed to build a solid foundation, the course empowers participants to work independently and develop their […]

Description This is a basic introduction to JavaScript, which is the programming language of the web. The class is designed for anyone interested in developing a 2025 site, or creating an interactive data visualization. By the end of this course, you will be able to read JavaScript you find online and adapt it to your […]

Description Queerness and the digital humanities share a common ethos: a desire to make meaning in new ways. Indeed, the intersection of DH and queerness is a site of rich potential that can inspire (and challenge) us to think differently about DH, its methods, its purpose, and its politics. This is true whether we are […]

Description This hands-on, project-based course introduces scholars, educators, and practitioners in the humanities to the creation and use of generative AI agents. Participants will learn how to design, customize, and interact with agents capable of interpreting and generating text, structured data, images, and sound. The course incorporates computational methods into humanistic inquiries in practical and […]

Description This offering is intended for those in, or those considering, leadership roles in DH including leads for collaborative or team projects, academic programs, and administrative roles requiring a broad, deep understanding of DH in terms of resource allocation, professional advancement, integration with institutional mission, and strategic planning. Based on the model of the earlier […]

Description This course will guide attendees in developing and enhancing experiential and educational digital humanities programming using liberatory and feminist pedagogical frameworks. Participants will examine strategies for building DH programming that meet the diverse educational and research needs of students, faculty, institutions, and community partners. Participants will engage in critical studies that explain how experiential […]

Description In this team-taught workshop, we invite scholars to join us in exploring the relationship between generative AI and the future of programming pedagogy in the digital humanities and a frontline of what the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI called “critical AI literacy.” Generative AI offers opportunities to make programming more accessible […]

Description Although there is a deep history of feminist engagement with technology, this history is often hidden, and feminist thinkers are frequently siloed. In order to address this, the seminar will offer a set of background readings to help make visible the history of feminist engagement with technology, as well as facilitate small-scale exploratory collaboration […]

Description This workshop provides an introduction to the web of data for humanities researchers and cultural data stewards. Linked open data is highly structured interoperable data hosted on the web that is structured with semantic relationships so that machines can become partners in discovering, disseminating, sharing, and analyzing data. Done right, LOD contributes to a […]

Description This course will cover the basics of project management from project definition to project review upon completion. Topics such as budget setting and controls, risk management, critical path scheduling, software tools, and related Internet resources will also be discussed. Material will be covered through lectures, discussions, case studies, and presentations. By the end of […]

Description This introductory course seeks to provide participants with an understanding of how to access, create, and use web archives for research and preservation purposes. Web archiving is the process of collecting web resources in an archival format and making them available for access. These archives are increasingly used to preserve ephemeral information online, and […]

Description For those new to the field, this is an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for analysis, online publication, print publication, and long-term preservation. This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on a text-encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, […]

Description L’IA, ce mot à la mode qui fascine autant qu’il inquiète, est au coeur de tous les débats. Face à la prolifération de discours souvent contradictoires, il devient difficile de se positionner sans tomber dans la panique ou l’enthousiasme aveugle. Alors, comment comprendre les véritables enjeux de cette nouvelle ère technologique ? Et, surtout, quelles […]

Description Ce cours propose une introduction aux usages des grands modèles de langage dans le cadre des recherches en sciences humaines et sociales. Il met l’accent sur les possibilités offertes par l’IA générative pour explorer, structurer et analyser des corpus textuels, tout en interrogeant les dimensions méthodologiques, épistémologiques et éthiques de ces technologies. La pratique […]

Description Are you interested in learning how to support digital humanities research and teaching as a librarian or consultant? Do you want to do a digital humanities project, but aren’t sure what to do or where to start? In this course, participants will be introduced to key areas of DH work, including gathering data and […]

Description This course introduces current practices in encoding, analysing and presenting music information. It will begin by introducing the philosophy, theory, and practicalities behind encoding symbolic music notation and will then explore pathways for analyzing and publishing that encoded data. Participants should have a basic knowledge of how to read music, but no prior experience […]

Description This course is intended for humanities and social sciences-based researchers without any programming background who would like to understand how code works behind the scenes by writing simple but useful scripts of their own. Over the week the emphasis will be on understanding how computer programmers think so that participants will be able to […]

Description This course for beginners will explore the how and why of podcasting. We’ll consider the benefits of the medium, and learn how to plan, record, edit, and publish audio content. Expect to do some listening and reading outside of class time, and have your favourite audio and text editors ready. Instructor(s) Robin Davies teaches in […]

Description Generative AI has disrupted higher ed, and many instructors feel caught between over-hyped potential and the realities of the classroom. Faculty everywhere are trying to figure out how to re-imagine their assignments, assessments, courses, and even degree programs. In this course, we’ll explore some of the ways that we can adapt to the changing […]

Description This course is a gentle introduction to mapping and spatial visualization for storytelling in the digital humanities. Rather than focusing on a particular software or technical workflow, we will introduce a variety of mapping tools while evaluating respective affordances and limitations. Short lectures and demonstrations will be paired with hands-on exercises and collaborative problem […]

Description In this hands-on course participants will learn how to develop and produce a data-rich textual edition using the open-source web-based Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) Commons suite of tools: LEAF-Writer, NERVE, and the Dynamic Table of Contexts. Sessions will involve digital editorial principles and processes. We will concentrate on the editorial workflow (transformation of […]

Description The 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. We will harness the power and amplitude of LLMs and other computing resources in analyzing single/discrete datums as well as […]

Description Data 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; […]

Description Agile 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 […]

Description The 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description Ivan Illich wrote of the alphabet and the printing press that they are “almost ideally convivial” because “anybody can learn to use them, and for 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). […]

Description This 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description Participants 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 […]

Description A 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description Over 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 […]

Description This 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. […]

Description Have 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

Description Comment publier dans un contexte de limites ? Les 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 […]

Description This 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 […]

      Description This course introduces digital history through multilingual text analysis using the Python coding language. It is designed for both beginners and those with some experience, teaching and revisiting Python basics through Jupyter Notebooks. Participants will complete a full digital history project, from sourcing primary materials to analysis and visualization. The course’s corpus will […]

Description This course introduces academics to the Wikimedia ecosystem and its applications in teaching and research. The course will address questions of authority and content attribution, the reliability of sources, knowledge equity, and the political dimensions of open knowledge. Participants will learn how Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wiki projects function, and how they […]

Description Ce 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 […]