CDHI (Critical Digital Humanities Network)
DHFest 2024
DH FEST 2024, a research showcase and celebration of three years of CDHI, highlights critical digital humanities research and knowledge mobilization at UofT. The program will feature lightning talks from faculty and postdoctoral fellows and posters from graduate and undergraduate researchers. DH Fest will also showcase new work in creative knowledge mobilization, including digital research storytelling and interactive projects developed through the CDHI Accelerator program.
Critical Digital Humanities Initiative to examine history through lens of power, social justice
From wampum belts to historical photographs, Cara Krmpotich and Heidi Bohaker are seeking to digitally reunite thousands of Indigenous artifacts from the Great Lakes region with the communities who once created them. The pair of University of Toronto researchers lead an international team that aims to decolonize museum practices by creating a database, or “knowledge sharing system,” that, for […]
U of T Mississauga researcher leads new Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
Imagine being able to listen to Kimberly Nixon describe, in her own words, being turned away as a volunteer at a Vancouver rape crisis centre because of her status as a trans woman. Or having an app to report on corporate pollution near and on Indigenous lands in Canada’s North. Elspeth Brown The University of Toronto’s Elspeth […]
Announcing the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative!
With an emphasis on anti-racist, feminist, queer, and decolonial scholarship and research, the CDHI will bridge the humanities’ emphasis on power and culture with the tools and analysis of digital technology to forge a new, generative paradigm of critical humanities scholarship.