TMU Centre for Digital Humanities
February Offerings
2021
• most events are hosted on Zoom and are free and open to all registrants
• to participate please install the zoom.us.app
• also, check out the workshops hosted by the TMU University Collaboratory!
IDH@TMU
February 14 (Sunday)
5-8 pm EST
Feb 14
Valentine’s Day NDN Literati Massacre
IDH@CDH and Madame Juicy
Calling all kin! From Animal Crossing to Mario Kart, NDNs have been turning to video games to find kinship and closeness during the pandemic.
Description
Join IDH@CDH and Madame Juicy (https://twitter.com/MadameJuicyTTV)—award-winning artist and poet Arielle Twist (Disintegrate/Dissociate, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019) and OCAD graduate student studying trans horror and monsters—on Twitch and witness the joy that NDN gamers are finding together in virtual worlds. During a stream of the horror game Dead By Daylight, Miss Juicy will interview Indigenous literary figures about horror (who will play as “survivors”), while she plays as “the killer.” A limited number of spaces are available for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit gamers to play in teams mode with Arielle and the authors being interviewed. Please email Lindsay Nixon (lnixon@ryerson.ca) to schedule a playing time. Keep an eye on the Indigenous Digital Humanities Twitter (@idh_rucdh) for announcements of the surprise authors. Otherwise, tune in on Valentine’s day and see the Indigenous literati of Canada get absolutely slaughtered.
Channel link for the event: https://www.twitch.tv/madamejuicy
In Winter 2021, in place of the drop-in hours it holds at its space in TMU University Library, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) will be holding weekly virtual drop-in sessions on Thursdays from 3-4 pm (usually on Zoom). These are intended as casual, fun events that bring together the DH community at TMU and beyond during COVID-19 restrictions.
Weekly Themes
Each week in a month will be dedicated to a specific theme. The first week, Stories in Play: Let’s Try, will consist of a led, shared exploration of a work of electronic literature (eLit) or a narrative-driven digital game. Week 2, DH Workbench, will be a led, shared exploration of a digital resource or tool for research and/or pedagogy. Week 3, DH@TMU Reads, will be an open discussion of a selected work of DH scholarship, read in advance of the drop-in. The fourth week, Procedural Creativity Workshop, will explore digital resources and platforms useful for creative activity.
Join us!
CDH Virtual
Drop-Ins
Thursdays, 3-4 pm
STORIES IN PLAY: LET’S TRY
Feb 4
Isolation and Sociality in Tacoma (Fullbright)
Host: Jason Boyd
Join Jason Boyd as he explores an evacuated space station and learns the fates of its crew.
Join here (no registration required):
https://www.twitch.tv/drjasonaboyd
DH WORKBENCH
Feb 11
Making visually-rich, interactive timelines with TimelineJS
Host: Jason Boyd
Join Jason Boyd for a demonstration of TimelineJS, which uses Google Sheets and social media to create timelines you can publish on the web.
STUDY WEEK
Feb 18
PROCEDURAL CREATIVITY WORKSHOP
Feb 25
Host: Jason Boyd
Join Jason Boyd as he demonstrates how to use Tracery with Twine 1 to create procedurally-generated texts.