Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Ian Lancashire Award for Student Promise, Megan Perram!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winner of the 2023 Ian Lancashire Award for Student Promise! This year’s award recipient is Dr. Megan Perram (she/her), who successfully defended her dissertation in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (shortly after Congress) and is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Alberta Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction. Her research centres the experiences of women and nonbinary individuals
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Travel funding to Congress (for those presenting) The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques invites all students that have had papers accepted to the annual conference as part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences to apply for travel funding. Thanks to the generosity of the GRAND
CFP—Graduate Students Speak Out: Gaining Knowledge in Digital Humanities
The CSDH/SCHN conference program committee is looking for ten-minute papers from graduate students that discuss or reflect on the opportunities they have had for education in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. Four papers will be selected to be part of a graduate student panel at Ryerson University during the CSDH/SCHN conference that
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CSDH/SCHN Beginnings
Ian LancashireUniversity of Toronto Some think that CSDH/SCHN began, about thirty years ago, as the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH), a prescient name, given that “Coc/sh” has three senses: a mathematical function, the hyperbolic cosine; chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic drug; and a
Diane Jakacki: CSDH/SCHN Member at Large
Heartiest congratulations to Diane Jakacki, CSDH/SCHN’s newest executive team member. This election boasted one of the largest slates in recent memory and was a credit to all who ran. An Early Modernist, Diane is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator and a Faculty Teaching Associate in Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University. She
Inclusivity & diversity
As representatives of digital humanities scholars in Canada, CSDH/SCHN already strives to be open and inclusive in a way that welcomes newcomers to our discipline. This means working to include people from academic communities adjacent to DH, engaging with the perspectives of newcomers, and extending our welcome beyond academia, so that we
CSDH/SCHN by-election for Member at Large
With the election of Constance Crompton to the position of VP English, we need a new member to serve in her vacated position as member-at-large. These are our nominees for this position: Jason Boyd I am an assistant professor of English at Ryerson University (hired as a specialist in digital
2016 Lancashire Promise Award: Jenna Townend
It is with great pleasure that the CSDH/SCHN executive introduces Jenna Townend, PhD student in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University and winner of the 2016 Lancashire Promise Award. Her paper “The Network of George Herbert’s Imitators: A Quantitative Approach” traced the ways that phrases from George Herbert’s
CSDH/SCHN executive—new members in 2016
We are pleased to announce the results of our election of three new members to the executive and the selection of two new ex officio members. Congratulations to Constance Crompton, who was elected Vice President English, Kim Martin, who was elected Member at Large, and Catherine Nygren, who was elected
SPARC2 White paper for Compute Canada
CSDH-SCHN has prepared a response to Compute Canada’s SPARC2 “consultation process to gather feedback from users and researchers on the types of investment required to enable Canada’s excellence and leadership in science and innovation,” and to consult in particular on needs over the next five years. Under the leadership of Dr. Constance