Past Workshops
2025 Workshops
Keynote Address: Dr. KáLyn Coghil
"Audre Lorde Says “Revolution Is Not A One-Time Event”: Resisting Digital Muzzles To Enact Revolutionary Change"
May 12th, 2025
1. Visualizing Data in the Humanities: From Concepts to Creation
Instructor: Diana Duarte Salinas (Emory University)
May 2025
2. Digital Misogynoir and Harm Reduction Tactics
Instructor: Dr. KáLyn Coghill (Virginia Commonwealth University)
May 2025
3. Intro to Minimal Web Design with Jekyll
Instructors: Ryan Chartier (University of Alberta) and Chelsea Miya (University of Guelph)
May 2025
4. An Intensive Introduction to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative
Instructor: James Cummings (Newcastle University)
May 2025
5. Making: A Feminist Praxis
Instructors: Kim Martin (University of Guelph) and Kiera Obbard (University of Guelph)
May 2025
2024 Workshops
Keynote Address: Dr. Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
"Ontologies and Data-Specific Challenges of FAIR and CARE: from Wagnerian Opera to Indigenous Australia"
May 14 2024
Abstract: The Digital Humanities is (or are) inherently diverse and a home to many different digital tools and computational methodologies. This paper is a journey of critical evaluation and practical implementation of one of them: Linked Data. The aim is to illustrate and explain the affordances and the challenges of this technology, particularly as it applies to the Digital Humanities. It is an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learnt in the context of several different Digital Humanities projects, ranging from ancient texts to 19th-century opera, and to examine the ways these can help us tackle the current challenge of thoughtfully identifying Indigenous data in institutional metadata.
1. Approaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques
Instructors: Arun Jacob (He/Him | University of Toronto) and Paula Sanchez Nuñez de Villavicencio (She/Her | University of Toronto)
May 2024
2. A Safer Internet for All: Self-Care and Community Care in Online Spaces
Instructor: Chelcie Rowell (She/Her | Harvard University)
May 2024
3. Introduction to Python Data Analysis
Instructor: Paul Barrett (He/Him | University of Guelph)
May 2024
4. Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars
Instructors: Alliyya Mo (She/Her | University of Guelph), Diane Jakacki (She/Her | Bucknell University), Kim Martin (She/Her | University of Guelph), Susan Brown (She/Her | University of Guelph), Sarah Roger (She/Her | University of Guelph)
May 2024
5. Simple 3D Animation for Digital Humanities
Instructors: Ar Ducao (She/Her | New York University)
May 2024
6. Uncovering Hidden Trends & Patterns using Data Visualization
Instructors: Jennifer Marvin (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2024
2023 Workshops
Keynote Address: Dr. Ángel David Nieves (Cancelled)
1. Distant Reading in Theory and Practice: Computational Approaches to Text Analysis
Instructors: Paul Barrett (He/Him I University of Guelph)
2023
2. Ontologies for Diversity
Instructors: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph), Kim Martin (She/Her I University of Guelph), Deb Stacey (She/Her I University of Guelph)
2023
3. Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An Introduction to CWRC
Instructors: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph)
2023
2022 Workshops (Cancelled)
2021 Workshops
Keynote Address: (Cancelled)
1. Equity in Digital Publishing
Instructors: Ela Przybylo (She/They | Illinois State University), Amy Verhaeghe (She/Her I York University)
2021
2. Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An Introduction to CWRC
Instructors: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph), Mihaela Ilovan ( She/Her I University of Alberta)
2021
3. Distant Reading in Theory and Practice: Computational Approaches to Text Analysis
Instructors: Asen Ivanov (He/Him I University of Guelph), Lisa Baer-Tsarfati (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Paul Barrett (He/Him I University of Guelph)
2021
4. Ontologies for Diversity
Instructors: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph), Kim Martin (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Deb Stacey (She/Her)
2021
5. Spatial Humanities: Exploring GIS in the Humanities
Instructors: Quin Shirk-Luckett (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Teresa Lewitsky (She/Her I University of Guelph)
2021
2020 Workshops (Cancelled)
2019 Workshops
Keynote Address: Kim Christen
"A Gift from the Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge and the Decolonization of Libraries"
May 7th 2019
Abstract: Decolonization has become a touchpoint for redefining the practices, policies and procedures within collecting institutions. This Talk explores how traditional knowledge can become a point of collaboration between Indigenous, First Nations, Native American communities and libraries and archives as they work to undo settler histories and recreate libraries and archives as places of relations within networks of obligation and respect.
1. Computational Digital Humanities: Command Line Fundamentals
Instructors: David Birnbaum (He/Him I University of Guelph) and Gabi Keane (She/Her I University of Pittsburg)
2019
2. Making Media Theory
Instructors: Marcel O’Gorman (He/Him I University of Waterloo) and Jason Lajoie (He/Him I University of Waterloo)
2019
3. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Transforming the Classroom
Instructor: Diane Jakacki (She/Her I Bucknell University)
2019
4. The Work that Stories Do in the World: Digital Storytelling for Research, Education, and Change
Instructors: Carla Rice (She/They I University of Guelph) and Ingrid Mundel (She/They I University of Guelph)
2019
5. Text Encoding with TEI
Instructor: Connie Crompton (She/Her I University of Ottawa)
2019
6. Digital Editing Methods and Concepts
Instructors: Nikolaus Wasmoen (University at Buffalo) and Jennifer Stertzer (She/Her I University of Virginia)
2019
2018 Workshops
Keynote Address: Laura Estill
"Finding and Indexing Digital Publications"
May 16 2018
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Estill explores the challenges and opportunities afforded by digital publications, based on her experience as editor of World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. The WSB, like online library catalogues and other digital bibliographies, can offer users the tantalizing perception that they are searching a complete archive. As the saying goes, however, there is no such thing as a complete bibliography; the illusion of searching "all" leads to materials that are not just overlooked, but never able to be looked at in the first place. While some of the challenges facing scholarly publication are not uniquely digital (such as plagiarism, predatory journals, peer-review, and self-publishing), they have been exacerbated by digital platforms. Other issues, such as ensuring access to scholarship and considering the humanities as a global field, change dramatically when we consider digital publication. Ultimately, this talk considers scope, inclusion, and findability as ethical concerns that reflect our culturally-bound scholarly, bibliographical, and editorial practices.
1. Digital Storytelling for Humanists
Instructors: Sonia Chaidez (She/Her I Whittier College) and Melanie Parlett-Stewart (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2018
2. Omeka Workshop
Instructors: Melissa McAfee (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Lisa Cox (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2018
3. TEI in the Trenches: Encoding, Publishing, and Analyzing Digital Editions
Instructors: Diane Jakacki (She/Her I Bucknell University) and Laura Mandell (She/Her I Texas A&M University)
May 2018
4. Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An introduction to CWRC for projects and individual scholars
Instructors: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Mihaela Ilovan (She/Her I University of Alberta)
May 2018
5. Tell Stories With Data
Instructors: Jennifer Marvin (She/Her I University of Guelph), Adam Doan (He/Him I University of Guelph) and Lucia Costanzo (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2018
6. An Introduction to Augmented Reality
Instructor: Markus Wust (He/Him I North Carolina State University)
May 2018
7. Introduction to Text Encoding
Instructor: Constance Crompton (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2018
8. Making at the Intersection
Instructors: Kim Martin (She/Her I University of Guelph), John Fink (He/They I McMaster University) and Liviu Pop (He/Him I Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy)
May 2018
2017 Workshops
Keynote Address: Laura Mandell
"Truth and Digital Method: Where We Stand Now"
May 10th 2017
Abstract: In this talk, I discuss the debates surrounding types of reading currently underway in the field of literary criticism: close, distant, surface, and suspicious, adding insights that have emerged from it to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s description of hermeneutics in Truth and Method. I argue that traditional hermeneutics is book-based, and that these new debates have arisen precisely because new media have troubled interpretive practices. Next, I examine the truth claims that have arisen from digital work in the fields of Visualization, Spatial Humanities, and XML-encoding, examining precisely which hermeneutic theories ground their truth claims. My argument is that we are not taking our work to the next theoretical level -- that, garnering insight from current reading debates, we could be doing much, much more. My goal is to lay out some hermeneutic challenges: once the digital work has been done, we need to employ new methods for analyzing it.
1. Introduction to Code/Art and Open Data Visualization
Instructor: J.J. Sylvia IV (He/Him I North Carolina State University)
May 2017
2. 3D Modelling for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Instructor: John Bonnett (He/Him I Brock University)
May 2017
3. Online Public Intellectual Work Through Social Media: Engagement Strategies and Pedagogical Practices
Instructors: Kimberly McKee (She/Her I Grand Valley State University) and Krista Benson (She/Her I Ohio State University)
May 2017
4. Spatial Humanities: Exploring Opportunities in the Humanities
Instructors: Quin Shirk-Luckett (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Teresa Lewitsky (She/Her I University of Guelph Library)
May 2017
5. Omeka Workshop
Instructors: Melissa McAfee (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Ashley Shifflet McBrayne (She/Her I University of Guelph Library)
May 2017
6. Making Manuscripts Digital: The Transcribathon Approach
Instructors: Kathryn Harvey (She/Her I University of Guelph), Jennifer Munroe (She/Her I University of North Carolina Charlotte), Hillary Nunn (She/Her I The University of Akron) and Amy Tigner (She/Her I University of Texas Arlington)
May 2017
7. XSLT for Digital Editions
Instructor: Laura Mandell (She/Her I Texas A&M)
May 2017
8. Minimal Computing for Humanities Scholars
Instructors: Kim Martin (She/Her I University of Guelph) and John Fink (He/They I McMaster University)
May 2017
9. Getting Going with Scholarship Online for projects and individual scholars
Instructor: Susan Brown (She/Her I University of Guelph)
May 2017
10. An Introduction to Augmented Reality
Instructor: Markus Wust (He/Him I North Carolina State University Libraries)
May 2017
11. Get Down with Your Data: Learn to web scrape, clean, visualize and preserve data!
Instructors: Adam Doan (He/Him I University of Guelph), Carrie Breton (She/Her I University of Guelph) and Lucia Costanzo (She/Her I University of Guelph Library)
May 2017
12. Introduction to Pedagogy in the Digital Humanities
Instructors: Alison Hedley (She/Her I Toronto Metropolitan University) and Emily Christina Murphy (She/Her I Queen’s University)
May 2017
13. Integrating Archival Research into the DH Classroom
Instructor: Diane Jakacki (She/Her I Bucknell University)
May 2017