Timetable

All times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

DHSI Calendar

DHSI, Week 1 (3–7 June 2024)

	June 3	June 4	June 5	June 6	June 7	June 8
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
8:00 – 9:00am	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Nothing Scheduled – see below for some suggestions : )
9:00 – 10:15am	Welcome Session (David Lam Auditorium)	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions
10:15 – 10:30am	Break				Break
10:30 – 12:00pm	Course Sessions				Institute Lecture (David Wrisley) (David Lam Auditorium)
12:00 – 1:00pm	Lunch Break / DH Talks (David Lam Auditorium)	Lunch Break / DH Talks (David Lam Auditorium)	Lunch Break / DH Talks (David Lam Auditorium)	Lunch Break / DH Talks (David Lam Auditorium) / Instructors’ Lunch	Lunch Reception / Show & Tell (MacLaurin A Breezeway)
1:00 – 2:15pm	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions
2:15 – 2:30pm	Break				HSS Commons (2:00 – 3:00pm) (MAC D115)
2:30 – 3:45pm	Institute / Lansdowne Lecture (Amanda Madden) (David Lam Auditorium)				HSS Commons (2:00 – 3:00pm) (MAC D115)
3:45 – 4:00pm	Break	Break	Break	Break
4:00 – 5:00pm	Reception (University Club)	Conference & Colloquium (David Lam Auditorium)	Project Management in the Humanities (David Lam Auditorium)	Conference & Colloquium (David Lam Auditorium)
5:15ish–		Newcomer’s Drink (Felicitas)	Taco and Drink Special (Grad House)

DHSI, Week 2 (10–14 June 2024)

	June 9	June 10	June 11	June 12	June 13	June 14
	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00 – 9:00am	Nothing Scheduled – see below for some suggestions : )	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)	Registration (MacLaurin Lobby)
9:00 – 10:15am		Welcome Session (David Lam Auditorium)	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions
10:15 – 10:30am		Break				Break
10:30 – 12:00pm		Course Sessions				DHSI 2025 Montréal! – Institute Lecture Panel (Several Presenters) (David Lam Auditorium)
12:00 – 1:00pm		Lunch Break / Hypertext & Art LAUNCH (LIB 129)	Lunch Break / Hypertext & Art Exhibit (LIB 129)	Lunch Break / Hypertext & Art Exhibit (LIB 129)	Lunch Break / Hypertext & Art Exhibit (LIB 129) / Instructors’ Lunch	Lunch Reception / Show & Tell / #GraphPoem (MacLaurin A Breezeway)
1:00 – 2:15pm		Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions	Course Sessions
2:15 – 2:30pm		Break				HSS Commons (2:00 – 3:00pm) (MAC D115)
2:30 – 3:45pm		Institute Lecture (Leigh Bonds) (David Lam Auditorium)				HSS Commons (2:00 – 3:00pm) (MAC D115)
3:45 – 4:00pm		Break	Break	Break	Break
4:00 – 5:00pm		Reception (University Club)	Conference & Colloquium (David Lam Auditorium)	Conference & Colloquium (David Lam Auditorium)	Conference & Colloquium (David Lam Auditorium)
5:15ish–			Newcomer’s Drink (Felicitas)	Taco and Drink Special (Grad House)

Where’s My Course?

Week 1

Course #	Course name	Building	Room	Room type
1	[Foundations] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application	Clearihue	CLE A108	Lab
2	[Foundations] Introduction to Computation for Literary Studies	Clearihue	CLE A102	Lab
3	[Foundations] Race, Social Justice and DH: Applied Theories and Methods	MacLaurin	MAC D110	Classroom
5	[Foundations] DH for Chairs and Deans	Library	LIB 219	Meeting Room (Also Lam Auditorium & MAC D109)
6	Podcasting from Scratch	MacLaurin	MAC D111	Classroom
7	Intro to Project Planning and Management for DH: Issues & Approaches	Library	LIB 210	Classroom
8	Databases for Humanists	Clearihue	CLE A025	CALL Centre Lab
9	Designing Digital Publications	Library	LIB 130	Lab
10	Engaging Play	Library	LIB 129	Classroom
11	Critical Making, or Slow Scholarship in the Age of AI	Library	LIB A308	Digital Scholarship Commons
12	Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio	Library	LIB 209	Lab
13	Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools, Methods, and Projects	Library	LIB A025	Special Collections Classroom
14	Introduction to IIIF: Sharing, Consuming, and Annotating the World’s Images	MacLaurin	MAC D105	Classroom
15	Queer(ing) DH	Library	LIB A003	Classroom
17	Natural Language Processing with Python	Clearihue	CLE A103	Lab
20	Out of the Box Text Analysis	Clearihue	CLE A105	Lab
21	Critical Pedagogy and Digital Praxis in the Humanities	MacLaurin	MAC D115	Classroom

Week 2

Course #	Course name	Building	Room	Room type
22	[Foundations] Introduction to Digital Approaches to Music Research	Clearihue	CLE A108	Lab
23	[Foundations] Making Choices About Your Data	Clearihue	CLE A025	CALL Centre Lab
24	[Foundations] Fundamentals of Programming for Human(s/ists)	MacLaurin	MAC D115	Classroom
25	NLP Coding Libraries and Network Analysis for Text Corpora	Clearihue	CLE A103	Lab
26	Creating Digital Collections with Minimal Infrastructure: Hands On with CollectionBuilder for Teaching and Exhibits	MacLaurin	MAC D110	Classroom
27	Digital Storytelling	MacLaurin	MAC D111	Classroom
28	Agile Project Management	Library	LIB 210	Classroom
30	Code the X-Files using the XML Family of Languages	Clearihue	CLE A102	Lab
34	Text Processing – Techniques & Traditions	Library	LIB A025	Lab
35	DH for Librarians	Library	LIB A308	Digital Scholarship Commons
36	Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Edition	Library	LIB A003	Classroom
37	Web APIs with Python	Library	LIB 130	Lab
41	DIY Computational Text Analysis with R	Clearihue	CLE A105	Lab
42	Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis	MacLaurin	MAC D101	Classroom

Details, Details!

Before 2 June	If you’re arriving a few days early, a few ideas of things you might consider doing are listed below @ 8-9 June! After arriving, on the Sunday many will wander to Cadboro Bay and the pub at Smuggler’s Cove OR the other direction to Shelbourne Plaza and Maude Hunter’s Pub OR even into the city for a nice meal.

Before 2 June

If you’re arriving a few days early, a few ideas of things you might consider doing are listed below @ 8-9 June!

After arriving, on the Sunday many will wander to Cadboro Bay and the pub at Smuggler’s Cove OR the other direction to Shelbourne Plaza and Maude Hunter’s Pub OR even into the city for a nice meal.

Monday 3 June
3–7 June	Registration	MacLaurin Lobby
3 June	Welcome Session	David Lam Auditorium (MacLaurin A144)
3 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Dorothy Kim	Race and Social Justice in DH (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
3 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	John Unsworth	EMMA: Educational Materials Made Accessible (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
3 June	Institute / Lansdowne Lecture: “Open Access Educational Resources for Whom and by Whom? Digital Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities at the Crossroads”	David Lam Auditorium	Amanda Madden (Matt Huculak, chair)	“Open Access Educational Resources for Whom and by Whom? Digital Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities at the Crossroads”: The DH community has excelled at DH pedagogy, whether it’s the collaborative learning of ThatCamps and DHSI to creating open access resources like textbooks and tutorials but who are these open educational resources for outside of DH? Are we doing enough pedagogical activism outside the field? With the worsening crisis in the humanities, we must ask ourselves what wider roles we might have to play in not only DH pedagogy but open educational access outside of our community. How can we harness our DH expertise and commitment to community in meaningful ways outside the traditional academic frameworks? It is imperative we address these questions not only as they relate to access and the health of the humanities but also the imperatives of equity and justice.
3 June	Opening Reception, Week 1	University Club (just follow the crowd)		Come join us for the week 1 opening reception at the University Club — have a nibble, grab a drink, make a new friend or two, concoct a dinner plan, and/or just hang out for a bit! There’s also a small book display for Kashallan Press & Doublejoy Books, a project by a Fellow of the ETCL. Your nametag gives you access, but aside from that formality it is a super-relaxed end-of-day event … and a nice way to begin the week!

Tuesday 4 June
4 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Amanda Madden	DH in the Humanities Department (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
4 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Dan Tracy	DH in the Library (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
4 June	DH Open Consultation	MacLaurin D109 (1:00 – 2:00pm)	Focus: DH in Liberal Arts Colleges (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
4 June	Conference and Colloquium	David Lam Auditorium	Kyle Dase and Jade McDougall, Chairs	Come hear about the sorts of research and other work DHSIers are doing! Details here: https://dhsi.org/conference-colloquium-2024/
4 June	Newcomer’s Drink	Felicitas	First time at DHSI? Drop by Felicitas to meet others who are here for the first time as well! Showing your nametag, and using the drink ticket that comes inside it, gets you one free drink : )

Wednesday 5 June
5 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Constance Crompton	Setting Up and Running a DH Lab (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
5 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Aaron Mauro	Setting Up and Running a DH Academic Program (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
5 June	DH Open Consultation	MacLaurin D109 (1:00 – 2:00pm)	Focus: Supporting ECR Faculty: Postdocs, Hiring, and Pre-Tenure (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
5 June	Project Management in the Humanities	David Lam Auditorium	Lynne Siemens, Chair	Aligned conference details here! https://dhsi.org/pm-2024/
5 June	Taco and Drink Special	Grad House	Drop by the Grad House for a deal on a taco and a drink! It is a nice place to hang out, and for lunches too : )

Thursday 6 June
6 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	Glen Layne-Worthey	DH in the iSchool (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
6 June	DH Talks	David Lam Auditorium	James Smith	DH Outside Academe (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
6 June	DH Open Consultation	MacLaurin D109 (1:00 – 2:00pm)	Focus: Tenure, Promotion, and Other Pragmatics (Offered by the DH for Chairs and Deans course)
6 June	Conference and Colloquium	David Lam Auditorium	Kyle Dase and Jade McDougall, Chairs	Come hear about the sorts of research and other work DHSIers are doing! Details here: https://dhsi.org/conference-colloquium-2024/

Friday 7 June
7 June	Institute Lecture: “Digital Humanities and Visualization: In-House and Cross-Campus Collaborations”	David Lam Auditorium	David Wrisley (Constance Crompton, chair)	“Digital Humanities and Visualization: In-House and Cross-Campus Collaborations”: As researchers in the humanities and cultural heritage have become increasingly comfortable with the creation and management of research data, they have become increasingly proficient in the visual communication of research results. These visual outputs can still garner mixed reactions in their research communities, however, for bending data to work with out-of-the-box tools or for foreclosing on complexity rather than showcasing it. Participatory design, at its best, opens new spaces for creative collaboration across the disciplines, but it also reveals some of the deeper value systems implicit in research communities. In this talk, I argue that indeed visualization can serve as a vehicle for seeing the humanities in a different light, and that the opposite can be equally true, but also that it is important for both our praxis and our product, to embed empathy in the transdisciplinary encounter, finding a compromise for the values that each of our communities holds dear.
7 June	Show and Tell / Lunch	MacLaurin A Breezeway		Join us for the showcase event that begins the wrap up for the week! There’ll be light lunch and some dessert to nibble on while we show each other what we’ve been up to. Each course gets a cocktail table as an anchor-space for their work, and we mix freely for show and tell, discussion, and more.
7 June	HSS Commons Workshop and Feedback Session	MacLaurin D115	Dan Tracy and Graham Jensen, Chairs	This workshop and feedback session, open to all attendees at DHSI, provides an introduction to the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons (https://hsscommons.ca/en/) as a solution for sharing your research with your peers and interested publics, participating in scholarly communities, and working in collaborative teams. Feedback gathered in the session will help improve the HSS Commons and will be used in published research on the needs of HSS scholars for open social scholarship platforms.

Saturday and Sunday, 8–9 June
8–9 June	If you’re here a day or two before we begin, hanging out over the weekend, or staying a day or two afterwards, here are a few ideas of things you might consider doing ….
	Suggested Outing 1, Botanical Beach (self-organised; car needed): A self-guided visit to the wet, wild west coast tidal shelf (and historically-significant former research site) at Botanical Beach; we recommend departing early (around 8.00 am) to catch low tide for a better view of the wonderful undersea life! Consider bringing a packed lunch to nibble-on while looking at the crashing waves when there, and then have an afternoon drink enjoying the view from the deck of the Port Renfrew Hotel.
	Suggested Outing 2, Butchart Gardens (self-organised): A shorter journey to the resplendently beautiful Butchart Gardens and, if you like, followed by (ahem) a few minutes at the nearby Church and State Winery, in the Saanich Peninsula. About an hour there by public bus from UVic, or 30 minutes by car.
	Suggested Outing 3, Saltspring Island (self-organised; a full day, car/bus + ferry combo): Why not take a day to explore and celebrate the funky, laid back, Canadian gulf island lifestyle on Saltspring Island. Ferry departs regularly from the Schwartz Bay ferry terminal, which is about one hour by bus / 30 minutes by car from UVic. You may decide to stay on forever ….
	Suggested Outing 4, Paddling Victoria’s Inner Harbour (self-organised): A shorter time, seeing Victoria’s beautiful city centre from the waterways that initially inspired its foundation. A great choice if the day is sunny and warm. Canoes, kayaks, and paddle boards are readily rented from several downtown, one being Ocean River Adventures. Very chill.
	And more! Self-organised High Tea at the Empress Hotel, scooter rentals, visit to the Royal BC Museum, darts at Christies Carriage House or the Strath, a hangry breakfast at a local diner, whale watching, kayaking, brew pub sampling (at Spinnaker’s, Swans, Moon Under Water, and beyond!), paddle-boarding, a tour of used bookstores, and more have also been suggested!
9 June	After arriving, on the Sunday many will wander to Cadboro Bay and the pub at Smuggler’s Cove OR the other direction to Shelbourne Plaza and Maude Hunter’s Pub OR even into the city for a nice meal.

Monday 10 June
10–14 June	Registration	MacLaurin A Lobby
10–14 June	Hypertext and Art Exhibit	LIB 129	Dene Grigar and John Durno	Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms (Hours: M Noon–4:00, Tu–Th 10:00–4:00, F 10:00–Noon)
10 June	Welcome Session	David Lam Auditorium (MacLaurin A144)
10 June	Launch: Hypertext and Art Exhibit	LIB 129 (12:00 – 1:00pm)	Dene Grigar and John Durno	Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms
10 June	Institute Lecture: “The Future of Digital Humanities Librarianship”	David Lam Auditorium	Leigh Bonds (Jonathan Bengtson, chair)	“The Future of Digital Humanities Librarianship”: Contemplating future opportunities for those of us in libraries who support digital humanities research and teaching begins with reckoning the debates in our field and the varied expectations for the roles we fill. Scope, capacity, and scalability have been key challenges for most of us “firsts” at our institutions, and as DH continues its integration into humanities research and teaching—its “institutionalization”—we return to those considerations with a different lens and over a decade of experience. A mix of observation and inspiration, this institute lecture imagines possibilities for what’s next.
10 June	Opening Reception, Week 2	University Club (just follow the crowd)		Come join us for the week 2 opening reception at the University Club — have a nibble, grab a drink, make a new friend or two, concoct a dinner plan, and/or just hang out for a bit! Your nametag gives you access, but aside from that formality it is a super-relaxed end-of-day event … and a nice way to begin the week!

Tuesday 11 June
11 June	Conference and Colloquium	David Lam Auditorium	Kyle Dase and Jade McDougall, Chairs	Come hear about the sorts of research and other work DHSIers are doing! Details here: https://dhsi.org/conference-colloquium-2024/
11 June	Newcomer’s Drink	Felicitas	First time at DHSI? Drop by Felicitas to meet others who are here for the first time as well! Showing your nametag, and using the drink ticket that comes inside it, gets you one free drink : )

Wednesday 12 June
12 June	Conference and Colloquium, Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities	David Lam Auditorium	Kyle Dase, Jade McDougall, and Luis Meneses, Chairs	Come hear about the sorts of research and other work DHSIers are doing! Details here: https://dhsi.org/conference-colloquium-2024/
12 June	Taco and Drink Special	Grad House	Drop by the Grad House for a deal on a taco and a drink! It is a nice place to hang out, and for lunches too : )

Thursday 13 June
13 June	Conference and Colloquium	David Lam Auditorium	Kyle Dase and Jade McDougall, Chairs	Come hear about the sorts of research and other work DHSIers are doing! Details here: https://dhsi.org/conference-colloquium-2024/

Friday 14 June
14 June	DHSI 2025 @ Montréal!	David Lam Auditorium	Michael E Sinatra, Ray Siemens	For 2025 and beyond, DHSI is moving to the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN; https://www.crihn.org/, U Montréal, McGill U, Concordia U) on the U Montréal campus!
14 June	Institute Lecture Panel: [1] “Sound, Storytelling, and Digital Humanities” [2] “Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms” [3] “#GraphPoem: Intermedia Performance Involving Dynamical Systems and Computational Data Commoning”	David Lam Auditorium	Michael E Sinatra (Chair)
			John Barber	“Sound, Storytelling, and Digital Humanities”: Tagline: Sound at the heart of DH storytelling. Radio as the channel. Warning! This talk is intended as highlighting creative practice, rather than exploring theoretical problems. Synopsis: Digital Humanities is, at its heart, stories we tell about our lives, and accomplishments. Those stories are packaged as art, architecture, language, literature, reflections on space, place, and self. At the heart of those stories is the voice of the storyteller. And at the heart of those storytellers is the sound of their voices. Sound (from cultural, historical, and technological perspectives) then becomes a legitimate arena of DH studies and I am focusing on radio storytelling. This focus derives from several summers of teaching Digital Storytelling and Storytelling with Sound courses at DHSI, and pursuing a practice-based, creative research project I call Re-Imagined Radio, a program about radio storytelling. A current project involves reviving a 17-episode 1941 radio adventure science fiction series broadcast only twice and then forgotten. I found the original scripts and am using them as starting points for re-imagining their stories and sharing them as radio programs as well as via resources not available in 1941, global streaming, and podcasting. At this point I am probably in a position very familiar to many other DH researchers/practitioners, trying to find money to support my endeavors. My comments and observations and my process are intended to engage with others pursuing similar endeavors. I hope my brief remarks will spark an ongoing sharing of other DH stories, from other DH storytellers.
			Dene Grigar and John Durno	“Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms” explores the way hypertext has been expressed by artists, world-wide, both in terms of the systems they used and genres with which they experimented. It features a wide array of hypertext art produced from the mid-1980s to the present by artists and scientists working in and creating a variety of platforms and approaches and offers an exploration into the forms of hypertext that have emerged over the last 35 years, influencing, as media theorist Jay David Bolter claims, “the way we think” (Writing Space 2). Divided into four thematic sections—Authoring Systems and the Art They Wrought (1986-present), Early Web & the Affordances of the Browser (1995-2000), Beyond the Click: Experimental Methods for Navigating and Experiencing Hypertext Art, and Conserving Hypertext Art—the exhibition takes a broad look at the development of hypertext systems and art, from the platforms used for artistic production to ways in which artists leveraged the affordances and constraints of hypertextual environments. Many of the works produced between 1986 to the mid-1990s are displayed on legacy computers, specifically Macintosh Classic IIs running System Software 7.0.1, so that visitors can experience early hypertexts as they were originally envisioned for access. Likewise, later works produced after the Apple Corporation shifted from the Classic operating system to MacOS X, are shown on Apple iMacs sold from 2007 to the mid-2010s running 10.10.1 (Yosemite). Accompanying these works are contextual materials, such as interviews, Traversals, and web-based hypertexts, displayed on iPads.
			MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu and Costin Dumitrache)	“#GraphPoem: Intermedia Performance Involving Dynamical Systems and Computational Data Commoning”: The short talk focuses on the 2024 and previous editions of #GraphPoem @ DHSI by drawing mainly on three relevant recent publications on or closely related to this event series (Tanasescu 2024, MARGENTO 2024, and Tanasescu 2022). The mathematical model for the communities and/as networks involved in such events as identified and developed recently is the one of dynamical systems. The complexity of such models and their attendant computational difficulty amounts to significant challenges to the most sophisticated and hegemonic ubiquitous control and data-extracting/surveilling players, the term coined for such phenomena being “complexity of resistance.” (Tanasescu 2024) The latter is complemented by a “complexity of assertion,” one that implicates improvisational, performative, and collaborative branching out modeling engendered by and within data-commoning events (ibidem). Intermediality emerges in the context as both the ethos behind such evental modeling as well as the most suitable critical and theoretical framework for foregrounding the intimately intertwined subversiveness and mathematical philosophy informing their poetics (MARGENTO 2024).
14 June	#GraphPoem		David Lam Auditorium	MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu and Costin Dumitrache)
14 June	Show and Tell / Lunch		MacLaurin A Breezeway	Join us for the showcase event that begins the wrap up for the week! There’ll be light lunch and some dessert to nibble on while we show each other what we’ve been up to. Each course gets a cocktail table as an anchor-space for their work, and we mix freely for show and tell, discussion, and more. #Graphpoem (as above) takes place at the same time, using the screens and speakers of the auditorium, as well as the input from all in the DHSI community … with more details about that coming soon.
14 June	HSS Commons Workshop and Feedback Session	MacLaurin D115	Dan Tracy and Graham Jensen, chairs	This workshop and feedback session, open to all attendees at DHSI, provides an introduction to the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons (https://hsscommons.ca/en/) as a solution for sharing your research with your peers and interested publics, participating in scholarly communities, and working in collaborative teams. Feedback gathered in the session will help improve the HSS Commons and will be used in published research on the needs of HSS scholars for open social scholarship platforms.

Afterwards	If you’re staying a day or two afterwards, a few ideas of things you might consider doing are listed above @ 8-9 June!