Toronto Metropolitan University
Centre for Digital Humanities
September Offerings
2024
- 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
on Zoom
Each month, weekly drop-ins will be dedicated to a specific theme. Tiny Tools Tour 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.
READING BYTES
Tuesday September 17
Noon-1:00pm EDT
Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI, Chapter 1: “Are You Paying Attention?” (pp. 1-20)
In 2024-25, Reading Bytes will discuss Alan F. Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI (MIT Press, 2024).
Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI focuses on a timely topic that is causing a great deal of concern and anxiety in higher learning and in society more broadly: recent developments in AI (artificial intelligence). Blackwell’s book provides an opportunity to discuss the possibility of a more equitable and beneficial approach to the design and use of AI.
Each month we will read and discuss one or more chapters of Moral Codes. Participants are free to join discussions any month without having attended earlier Reading Bytes.
Moral Codes is available in open access through MIT Press Direct.
STORIES IN PLAY
Tuesday September 24
Noon-1:00pm EDT
Roundtable on “The Walking Simulator from Myst to Gone Home”
Building on the release of Season 3, Episode 1 of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on Myst (Cyan, 1993) and the publication of the Playable Stories Archive entry on Gone Home (The Fullbright Company, 2013), this roundtable will discuss the history and development of the ‘walking simulator’ game genre.
Unarchived episode on Myst:
https://storiesinplay.
Playable Stories Archive entry on Gone Home:
https://storiesinplay.