Toronto Metropolitan University
Centre for Digital Humanities
October Offerings
2023
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- CDH events are open to the TMU community and beyond.
- Also, check out the workshops hosted by the Collaboratory!
Currently, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is between spaces, and will hopefully have its own space in the Library building (LIB) soon. In the meantime, for 2023-2024, the CDH will be holding some of its events virtually (on Zoom) and some in-person at the TMU Library. Some events may be hybrid.
Join us!
DH@TMU
Friday October 27th
Noon-1:00pm EST
October 27
TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies
The CDH and the Centre for Learning and Teaching (CELT) present:
A panel discussion about the recently published TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, with editors Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler (read their bios here) and Allyson Miller, Director of TMU’s Academic Integrity Office.
Generative AI is the most influential technology in writing in decades—nothing since the word processor has promised as much impact. Publicly-accessible Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have enabled students, teachers, and professional writers to generate writing indirectly, via prompts, and this writing can be calibrated for different audiences, contexts and genres. Published this August, TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (eds. Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler) collects early experiments in pedagogy with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. The fully open access and peer-reviewed collection features 34 undergraduate-level assignments to support students’ AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing text gen technology, along with an Introduction to guide instructors’ understanding and their selection of what to emphasise in their courses.
CDH Virtual
Drop-Ins
Tuesdays Noon-1 pm EST
Each month, weekly drop-ins will be dedicated to a specific theme. Tiny Tools Tour / DH Workbench are explorations of a digital resource or tool for research, creativity, and/or pedagogy. Unarchived is a monthly podcast associated with the Playable Stories Archive focused on discussing storytelling games. Critical Code Studies discusses coding/programming from a critical perspective informed by the humanities. In October, for TMU’s Fall Pride, the CDH, in collaboration with the Library Collaboratory, will be hosting a Fall Pride Make-a-Game!
TMU FALL PRIDE MAKE-A-GAME
October 3
Introduction to Twine 2
Host: Jason Boyd
An introductory workshop to Twine 2, an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Twine 2 can be downloaded onto your computer or used in browser. No prior game-making experience is required.
Join us for a workshop on Bitsy on October 17th and share your game with others at the Fall Pride Make-a-Game Arcade on October 24th!
Participants may wish to submit their game to the Queerness and Games Jam; submissions open between 15-21 October.
TMU FALL PRIDE MAKE-A-GAME
October 17
Introduction to Bitsy
Host: Jason Boyd
An introductory workshop to Bitsy, a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories. Bitsy is used in your browser (no download required). No prior game-making experience is required.
Share your game with others at the Fall Pride Make-a-Game Arcade on October 24th!
Participants may wish to submit their game to the Queerness and Games Jam; submissions open between 15-21 October.
TMU FALL PRIDE MAKE-A-GAME
October 24
Arcade
Host: Jason Boyd
Bring your Fall Pride Make-a-Game to the Arcade and play games made by other participants! Play games submitted to the Queerness and Games Jam too!
Held at the Library Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is accessible from the 3rd floor of the SLC Building: take the stairs to the 3rd floor and walk along the hallway past the elevators, or, if using the elevators, turn left when exiting: the Library Collaboratory is at the end of the hall, marked with large yellow doors.
October 24
Revisiting Resident Evil (Capcom 1996-present)
Listen to Season 2, Episode 2 of the Playable Stories Archive: Unarchived podcast, “Revisiting Resident Evil,” with Noah Pedinelli, Alexander Hurezeanu, and Julia Froio.
On October 31st, join members of the Playable Stories Archive: Unarchived podcast collective for a special Halloween Zoom (Zoombie?) drop-in to discuss the “Revisiting Resident Evil” episode!
UNARCHIVED ROUNDTABLE
October 31
Resident Evil and the Horror Game Genre
Join members of the Playable Stories Archive: Unarchived podcast collective to discuss the second episode of Season 2 on this special Halloween roundtable about the Resident Evil franchise and its place in the horror game genre.
Listen to Season 2, Episode 2 of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast here.