CDHI (Critical Digital Humanities Network)
Critical Digital Humanities Initiative to examine history through lens of power, social justice
December 9, 2021
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
May 17, 2021
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 […]
