McGill Digital Humanities

McGill Library's Love Data Week looks awesome this year! Congrats to everyone involved in its planning. Full schedule in the first comment. Feel free to share with friends and colleagues!

📢 Join us next Friday at 1 PM EST for an exciting talk on Multilingual Digital Humanities!

Dr. Aitor Zuberogoitia will be presenting "Digital Humanities for Urban Transformation: The Case of the Degree in Global Digital Humanities at Mondragon Unibertsitatea."

In this talk, Dr. Zuberogoitia will explore the origins and evolution of Digital Humanities, with a focus on how they can address unmet social needs through co-creation processes in urban contexts. He will also showcase urban interventions developed at the Bilbao AS Fabrik campus.

🔎 Interested in the intersection of technology, language, and urban transformation? This is the perfect event for you! 🌍

🗓 When: Friday at 1 PM EST
📍 Where: Online (DM McGill DH for link)
💬 Who: Open to all, especially those interested in multilingual DH and minority languages! Aitor is a specialist in Basque!

🔦Student spotlight🔦

Benjamin LeBrun, double major in linguistics and computer science, co-authored a paper on a project that quantifies the effects of corporate acquisition in local news. Benjamin was also interviewed by Nieman Journalism Lab regarding the findings of this project.

Proud to have you at McGill University !🎉

Learn more about Benjamin's work in our latest article➡️

Digital Humanities

🗂️Happy International Archives Day!🗂️

To celebrate, we want to share some wonderful projects and initiatives at McGill University that focus on the digitization of archival and library materials.

Learn more in our latest article ➡️https://www.mcgill.ca/digital-humanities/article/resources-digital-artifacts-and-archives

Resources for digital artifacts and archives McGill's digital presence McGill leads several projects and initiatives that focus on the digitization of archival and library materials, providing open access to diverse artifacts, and curating digital exhibits. As explained by McGill's bicentennial revision of the McGill Library's contributions to...

✨ Graduate spotlight ✨

Margaret Meehan is a student in our MA in Digital Humanities program. She recently co-authored a paper on a project uncovering the causal associations between narrative events using Natural Language Processing (NLP). We are very proud to have Margaret at McGill University.

Read more about Margaret's work in our latest article ➡️

Digital Humanities

🌿There's still time to register for this workshop on Digital Environmental Humanities and web scraping facilitated by our very own Heather Rogers-Alapi and Lidia PV, organized by the Network in Canadian History & Environment - NICHE.

Register now ➡️https://niche-canada.org/2022/04/11/cfp-web-scraping-for-environmental-history-research/

CFP: Web Scraping for Environmental History Research Hosted by the NiCHE New Scholars community, this workshop addresses how Digital Humanities tools can support environmental history research, specifically focusing on web scraping for the extraction of environmental historical data in online archives and databases. The workshop will also include a ha

⭐Graduate spotlight⭐

Kate Bundy is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies in the LLC department. Her recently submitted thesis is a cross-section between film studies and critical metadata analysis. We are so proud to have Kate at McGill University!🎉🥳

Learn more about Kate's work in our latest article ➡️https://www.mcgill.ca/digital-humanities/article/graduate-spotlight-kate-bundy

Graduate Spotlight: Kate Bundy In her research project, Kate analyzes national labelling in the metadata of the short film database Cortos de Metraje. Her interest in this topic began in 2008 when she organized a Spanish short film festival. Many of the short films were in languages other than Spanish, with international actors,....

🔔The deadline to apply for the Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship is May 31st. This award is granted in honour of Prof. Stéfan Sinclair and his amazing legacy.

Help us spread the word! 📢

Apply now ➡️

Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship – CSDH / SCHN Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship Post published:March 1, 2022 Post category:2022 / Awards / News / Post-EN 2022-2023 The Stéfan Sinclair Scholarship is designed to support a graduate student working at the intersection of the humanities, literature, language and computing who needs financial a...

✨Student spotlight✨
Our latest article for McGill University features .txtlab students, Nikoo Sarraf and Jennifer Chen, who recently presented their research on in fanfiction at the organized by BookNet Canada. We are so proud to see our students succeed in such a prestigious forum! 🥳
Read here ➡️https://www.mcgill.ca/digital-humanities/article/student-spotlight-nikoo-sarraf-jennifer-chen

Student Spotlight: Nikoo Sarraf & Jennifer Chen Nikoo Sarraf recently graduated from McGill University with a BA in Computer Science and Hispanic Studies and is currently enrolled in the MA in Digital Humanities. Jennifer Chen is a second-year B.Sc. student at McGill University, planning to major in Computer Science. As members of our .txtlab, Ni...

✨Our latest article on Multilingual DH features fantastic projects by our DH affiliates at McGill University, including projects from the Indian Ocean World Centre, the CRIEM CIRM, and the Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma.

Multilingual Research and Resources for DH An important and continuous debate in DH revolves around the overwhelmingly Anglocentric nature of the field. Think about it: even before learning a programming language, you need to know English. However, this doesn't mean that all DH research is done in English or that there aren't any non-Angloph...

🌟We are very excited for this presentation by Nikoo Sarraf and Jennifer Chen on q***r fanfiction. Make sure to join us and follow the conversation on Twitter starting at 2 pm EST!

Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lgY4y8vtTAmR8Ix1ey4VDg

⏰There's still time to register! Don't forget to join us tomorrow for this presentation by our .txtlab students Nikoo Sarraf and Jennifer Chen. Spread the word!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The difference q***r fanfiction makes: Lessons for the publishing industry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. ABOUT THE SESSION As Nikoo Sarraf and Jennifer Chen from McGill University's .txtlab write in their introduction to their 2021 report, q***r fans: the difference that q***r fanfiction makes, "fanfiction is a powerful and transformative form of writing that provides a safe space for youth to explore....