Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The sixth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
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2027 3 events
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The fifth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The fourth talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
2026 6 events
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Alexia Schneider
Alexia Schneider, a PhD student at the University of Montreal, will give a lecture on her research, which focuses on AI and serendipity.
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The third talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The second talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
Humanities Innovation Lab Speaker Series: Speaker TBA
The first talk in the lab’s 2026/2027 external speaker series. The speaker and title will be announced closer to the date.
Digital Media and Cultural Representation of Tourist Imaginaries in Online Reviews (Ayodele James Akinola)
A presentation by Ayodele James Akinola, Ph.D., of the Department of Communication, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Community Policing in Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (Md Nazmul Arefin)
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.
2025 1 event
Moral Chains and Animal Agents: A Database-Driven Study of Folktales (Augustine Farinola)
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.
2024 1 event
Digital Humanities for Beginners
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.
2022 10 events
GitHub for Humanists
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.
Handmade Data: Reflections on Data Containers. Nikki Stevens
Online Academic Identity
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.
Using Textual Communities (Bordalejo – Robinson)
Using Word Processor Styles to Automate Your Papers
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.
Citation Managers
A workshop on the use of citation managers for students and researchers in the humanities.
The creative, collaborative lab. A round table.
A discussion about developing and working within a constructive and collaborative lab culture.
Editing Texts in Multiple Versions
A must-have tool for editors.
Humanities Data Reading Group
This will be our first "journal club"-style seminar. Participants will read a couple of articles/chapters and discuss in a seminar setting.
Publishing open humanities data: The experience of the Journal of Open Humanities (Barbara McGillivray)
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.