Toronto Metropolitan University
Centre for Digital Humanities
March 2026
- CDH events are open to the TMU community and beyond.
- Also, check out the workshops hosted by the Collaboratory!
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is temporarily located on the 4th floor of the Podium (POD) building (where the School of Law is currently situated) and is planning to have a permanent home in the Library building (LIB) in the future. CDH events are held virtually (on Zoom) and in-person in the TMU Libraries’ Collaboratory.
Join us! If you have an idea for a CDH-hosted event or a question, please contact CDH Director Jason Boyd (jason.boyd@torontomu.ca) or CDH Manager Reg Beatty (rbeatty@torontomu.ca).
DH@TMU
on Zoom
Wednesday March 25
noon-1:00pm EST
A Critical Edition of a Born-Digital Work
Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, and Brendan Allen
Join Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, and Brendan Allen, editors of ApertureScience.com: A Critical Edition, for a discussion of their experiences creating what is likely the first scholarly edition of a born-digital interactive work of fiction. They will address topics such as editorial design, challenges encountered, and insights gained.
Attendees are encouraged to peruse ApertureScience.com: A Critical Edition and this Veil of Code blog post on the edition in advance of the event.
Alan Galey is an Associate Professor and Brendan Allen a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Ellen Forget is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Alberta.
CDH Virtual
Drop-Ins
Each month, weekly drop-ins will be dedicated to a specific theme. Tiny Tools Tour, Web Walks, and DH Workbench are explorations of a digital resource or tool for research, creativity, and/or teaching. Stories in Play features discussion of entries in the Playable Stories Archive and episodes of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast, both of which are focused on storytelling in games. Reading Bytes is a reading group for discussion of published digital humanities scholarship. DH@TMU Talks feature CDH members presenting their research.
PROCEDURAL WRITING WORKSHOP
Tuesday March 10
noon-1:00pm EST on Zoom
An Introduction to Ink
Jeremy Andriano
Join Jeremy for an introduction to the narrative scripting language, Ink, developed by Inkle Studios, creators of acclaimed narrative games including 80 Days, Overboard!, Heaven’s Vault, Expelled!, and TR-49.
Participants are encouraged to download Inky, the Ink editor, in advance.
PLAYABLE STORIES
Tuesday March 17
noon-1:00pm EST on Zoom
The Books of Blue Prince
Jason Boyd, Jeremy Andriano, and Kevin Ghouchandra
Join Jason Boyd, Jeremy Andriano, and Kevin Ghouchandra for a discussion of the carefully-rendered books found in Blue Prince, a 2025 puzzle adventure game, how they compare to books found in other video games, and reading as gameplay.
Listen to the Unarchived podcast episode on Blue Prince.
READING BYTES
Tuesday March 31
noon-1:00pm EST on Zoom
Critical AI Literacy
Jason Boyd
Join us for a discussion of Ryan Heuser’s “Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 10, no. 3, 2025.