Toronto Metropolitan University
Centre for Digital Humanities
April 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).
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.
TINY TOOLS TOUR
Tuesday April 7
noon-1:00pm EST on Zoom
Digital Concrete: tools for making visual poetry
Reg Beatty
In 1955, the impetus to create a certain kind of visual poetry appeared simultaneously in Switzerland (with Eugen Gomringer) and Brazil (with the Noigandres poets Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari). Joining forces, they adopted the term ‘concrete’ to foreground the ‘building up’ of poetic materials both visually and sonically.
Join Reg as he shows how concrete poetry was being practiced in Canada in the 60s and 70s. He will then introduce a number of digital tools that allow for unexpected manipulations of text for the creation of digital concrete poems.
FABULUDUS 2026
April 15-21
Fabuludus 2026 Playable Story Arcade
Come visit the Fabuludus 2026 Playable Story Arcade! Showcasing the work of students in the Literatures of Modernity MA Program at TMU, the Arcade will run from April 15th to 21st. Visit https://itch.io/jam/
STAY TUNED
IDARESU 2026
April 27 – May 1
IDARE Summer University 2026
Interactive Digital Arts, Research and Education will be running its 2026 Summer University at the end of April. This year’s focus is “Eccentric Tools for Brief, Intense Digital Experiences.”
…more information to come.
DH @ TMU
May 30
Ancestral Mist
The TMU English Department’s Jumoke Verissimo will be presenting her latest project.
…more information to come.