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The Centre for Digital Humanities<\/a> (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\u2019 Collaboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n 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).<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-20px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” custom_css_main_element=”|||| ||” border_radii=”off||||” border_width_all=”2px” border_width_right=”0px” border_width_bottom=”0px” border_width_left=”0px”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”BioRhyme||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” header_font=”BioRhyme||||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”31px” header_letter_spacing=”1px” header_2_font_size=”31px” header_3_font_size=”20px” header_3_line_height=”1.25em”]<\/p>\n 3:30-4:30pm EDT<\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/cdh.rula.info\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/Digital-mapping.jpg” alt=”Map of the U.S. with digital plot points” title_text=”Digital-mapping” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false”]<\/p>\n Due to issues with Zoom on April 16th, this talk was rescheduled.<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday April 23 [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” header_2_font=”Source Sans Pro|600|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#eb0000″ header_2_font_size=”20px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”10px||10px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n Presented by Dr. Sean Kheraj<\/span><\/p>\n Please join us for the CDH\u2019s final event of 2024-2025, a talk by <\/span>Dr. Sean Keraj<\/span><\/a>, Associate Professor of History and Vice-Provost, Academic, at TMU.<\/span><\/p>\n Sean describes his talk below:<\/span><\/p>\n “Do you lack any and all digital mapping skills, but you wish you could make a map to better understand and present your research? That’s how things started for me and that’s when I turned to Web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to map my historical research data. My textual primary sources contained spatial information that I needed to see on maps to better understand some of the work I was doing in environmental history. Environmental history examines the historical relationships between people and the rest of nature. Those relationships have spatial dimensions that I was able to analyze and illustrate using ArcGIS Online, a Web-based GIS tool.<\/span><\/p>\n In this presentation, I will deconstruct digital maps from two historical research projects. The first is a project on the history of livestock animals in nineteenth-century Canadian and US cities. The second is a study of the development of long-distance oil pipelines in Canada since 1947. I’ll show some of the ways I was able to translate my historical research data into maps and animations for analysis. I’ll also discuss the challenges and limitations of this research method.”<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”20px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-20px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” custom_css_main_element=”|||| ||” border_radii=”off||||” border_width_all=”2px” border_width_right=”0px” border_width_bottom=”0px” border_width_left=”0px”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”BioRhyme||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” header_2_font_size=”31px” header_2_line_height=”0.75em” header_3_font_size=”20px”]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_line_height=”1.5em” custom_padding=”||20px||false|false”]<\/p>\n Each month, weekly drop-ins will be dedicated to a specific theme. <\/span>Tiny Tools Tour,<\/span> Web Walks,<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span> and <\/span>DH Workbench<\/span><\/i><\/span> are explorations of a digital resource or tool for research, creativity, and\/or teaching. <\/span>Stories in Play<\/span><\/i><\/span> features discussion of entries in the <\/span>Playable Stories Archive<\/span><\/i><\/a> and episodes of the <\/span>Playable Stories: Unarchived<\/span><\/i><\/a> podcast<\/a>, both of which are focused on storytelling in games. <\/span>Reading Bytes<\/span><\/i><\/span> is a reading group for discussion of published digital humanities scholarship. <\/span>DH@TMU Talks<\/span><\/i><\/span> feature CDH members presenting their research.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px|0px|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” border_width_bottom=”2px”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”16px” text_letter_spacing=”0.2px” background_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” custom_padding=”5px|10px|5px|10px|true|true”]<\/p>\n READING BYTES<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false”]<\/p>\n Tuesday April 1 [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#e02b20″ text_font_size=”21px” header_2_font=”Source Sans Pro|600|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#eb0000″ header_2_font_size=”20px” header_2_line_height=”1.1em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Source Sans Pro||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”15px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”10px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false”]<\/p>\n Jason Boyd<\/p>\n Continuing in 2025, <\/span>Reading Bytes<\/span><\/i><\/span> will discuss Alan F. Blackwell\u2019s <\/span>Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI <\/span><\/i>(MIT Press, 2024).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI<\/span><\/i> 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\u2019s book provides an opportunity to discuss the possibility of a more equitable and beneficial approach to the design and use of AI.<\/span><\/p>\nDH@TMU<\/h2>\n
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3:30-4:30pm EDT<\/p>\n\u201cSpatial Analysis and Digital Mapping in Environmental History\u201d<\/h2>\n
CDH Virtual<\/h2>\n
Drop-Ins<\/h2>\n
noon-1:00pm EDT on Zoom<\/p>\n<\/span>Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI<\/i>,\u00a0Chapter 13: \u201cMaking Code Less WEIRD,\u201d Chapter 14: \u201cReimagining AI to Invent More Moral Codes,\u201d and Chapter 15: \u201cConclusion\u201d (pp. 167-194)<\/span><\/h2>\n