Workshops, lectures, and reading groups hosted by the lab.
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In this talk, Joey Takeda thinks through “sustainability” across multiple registers to ask what we mean, and on whom we depend, when we invoke “sustainability”—as well as allied terms like “reproducibility” and “replicability”—in our discussions of preserving, archiving, and sharing digital scholarship.
More infoThe third talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Inge Genee (University of Lethbridge) presents on the Don Frantz Blackfoot Language Archive.
More infoAlexia Schneider is a PhD student at the University of Montreal working on AI and serendipity.
More infoThe fourth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Ashley Burgoyne speaks on a cross-culture music experiment.
The fifth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Sanjaya Mishra speaks on education and technology.
The sixth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
The seventh talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Barbara Bordalejo (University of Lethbridge). The title will be announced closer to the date.
The seventh talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Barbara Bordalejo (University of Lethbridge). The title will be announced closer to the date.
The sixth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
The fifth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Sanjaya Mishra speaks on education and technology.
The fourth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Ashley Burgoyne speaks on a cross-culture music experiment.
Alexia Schneider is a PhD student at the University of Montreal working on AI and serendipity.
More infoThe third talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Inge Genee (University of Lethbridge) presents on the Don Frantz Blackfoot Language Archive.
More infoIn this talk, Joey Takeda thinks through “sustainability” across multiple registers to ask what we mean, and on whom we depend, when we invoke “sustainability”—as well as allied terms like “reproducibility” and “replicability”—in our discussions of preserving, archiving, and sharing digital scholarship.
More infoThe first talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Daniel O’Donnell (University of Lethbridge) asks whether academic freedom is an ancient right — or a form of collective self-governance.
More infoA presentation by Ayodele James Akinola, Ph.D., of the Department of Communication, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
A presentation by Md Nazmul Arefin, PhD candidate and Killam Scholar at the Centre for Criminological Research, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies (CIFRS). His research interests include terrorism and radicalization studies, policing, social justice, Islamophobia, and narrative criminology.
A presentation by Augustine Farinola, who holds a Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and a Graduate Research Assistantship in Media Technology Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. His research lies at the intersection of AI ethics, digital humanities, philosophy of information technology, experimental philosophy, and visual epistemology, examining how computational tools mediate perception, embodiment, and meaning through a digital humanist lens.
A free four-day workshop introducing students, researchers, and educators in the humanities and social sciences to digital methods: mapping historical events, analysing textual data, building visualisations, and managing digital projects. Taught by Barbara Bordalejo, Daniel O’Donnell, Iftekhar Khalid, Frank Onuh, Davide Pafumi, and Morgan Pearce.
Github is an essential tool in computer science and many of the sciences. But it can also be helpful to humanists. This workshop will provide a basic orientation to GitHub and show you how you can use it to create free, permanent websites, among other tasks.
If you want to start developing your online academic identity, this course is for you. We will explore the different platforms, identifiers, and their curation, as well as help you present yourself online as an academic. Email to humanitiesinnovationlab@gmail.com. Location: University Hall, room B.
In this workshop, we will look at how you can use styles and templates in Word and other word processors to automate many tasks associated with essays and other assignments. Email to humanitiesinnovationlab@gmail.com. Location: University Hall, room B516.
A workshop on the use of citation managers for students and researchers in the humanities.
A discussion about developing and working within a constructive and collaborative lab culture.
A must-have tool for editors.
This will be our first "journal club"-style seminar. Participants will read a couple of articles/chapters and discuss in a seminar setting.
The first talk in the Humanities Data Inquiry Lecture Series. Barbara McGillivray is lecturer in digital humanities and cultural computation at King’s College London and Turing fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, where she runs the Humanities and Data Science special interest group.
No events on that day.