Events

Monday, 26 April 2027

Monday Lecture Series: Barbara Bordalejo — Title TBA

Apr 26, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MDT

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

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.

Monday, 22 March 2027

Monday Lecture Series: Speaker TBA

Mar 22, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MDT

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

The sixth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.

Monday, 22 February 2027

Monday Lecture Series: Sanjaya Mishra — Education and Technology

Feb 22, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

The fifth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Sanjaya Mishra speaks on education and technology.

Monday, 25 January 2027

Monday Lecture Series: Ashley Burgoyne — A Cross-Culture Music Experiment

Jan 25, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

The fourth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Ashley Burgoyne speaks on a cross-culture music experiment.

Monday, 14 December 2026

Monday Lecture Series: Alexia Schneider — AI and Serendipity

Dec 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. MST

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

Alexia Schneider is a PhD student at the University of Montreal working on AI and serendipity.

Monday, 23 November 2026

Monday Lecture Series: Inge Genee — The Don Frantz Blackfoot Language Archive

Nov 23, 2026, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. MST

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

The third talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 Monday Lecture Series. Inge Genee (University of Lethbridge) presents on the Don Frantz Blackfoot Language Archive.

Monday, 26 October 2026

Monday Lecture Series: Joey Takeda — The Endings Project

Oct 26, 2026, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. MDT

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

Joey Takeda is the Digital Scholarship Librarian and developer for the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University.

Monday, 28 September 2026

Monday Lecture Series: Daniel O’Donnell — What is Fundamental about Academic Freedom?

Sep 28, 2026, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. MDT

University Hall, room B838, University of Lethbridge — also streamed on Zoom

The 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.

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Digital Media and Cultural Representation of Tourist Imaginaries in Online Reviews (Ayodele James Akinola)

Mar 18, 2026, 3:30 p.m. MST

University Hall, room B838 — also on Zoom, meeting ID 589 614 7863, no passcode required

A presentation by Ayodele James Akinola, Ph.D., of the Department of Communication, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Community Policing in Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (Md Nazmul Arefin)

Feb 25, 2026, 3:30 p.m. MST

Zoom — meeting ID 403-329-2377, no passcode required

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.

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Moral Chains and Animal Agents: A Database-Driven Study of Folktales (Augustine Farinola)

Oct 15, 2025, 3:30 p.m. MDT

University Hall — also on Zoom

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.

Monday, 22 April 2024

Digital Humanities for Beginners

Apr 22, 2024 – Apr 25, 2024

University of Lethbridge

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.

Friday, 2 December 2022

GitHub for Humanists

Dec 02, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – Dec 03, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

Humanities Innovation Lab, 4401 University Dr W, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada

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.

Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Handmade Data: Reflections on Data Containers. Nikki Stevens

Nov 15, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. MST

Zoom (see abstract for registration link)

Friday, 28 October 2022

Online Academic Identity

Oct 28, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. MDT

Lethbridge, 4401 University Dr W, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada

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.

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Using Textual Communities (Bordalejo – Robinson)

Oct 06, 2022, 10:00 a.m. MDT – Oct 07, 2022, 3:00 p.m. MDT

Lethbridge, University Hall, Valley Rd W, Lethbridge, AB T1K 6T4, Canada

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Using Word Processor Styles to Automate Your Papers

Sep 29, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. MDT

Lethbridge, West Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K 6T4, Canada

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.

Friday, 9 September 2022

Citation Managers

Sep 09, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MDT

A workshop on the use of citation managers for students and researchers in the humanities.

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

The creative, collaborative lab. A round table.

Jun 01, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Register with Zoom

A discussion about developing and working within a constructive and collaborative lab culture.

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Editing Texts in Multiple Versions

May 11, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. MDT

Register for Zoom

A must-have tool for editors.

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Humanities Data Reading Group

Apr 27, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MDT

This will be our first "journal club"-style seminar. Participants will read a couple of articles/chapters and discuss in a seminar setting.

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Publishing open humanities data: The experience of the Journal of Open Humanities (Barbara McGillivray)

Apr 13, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MDT

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.