Lightning Lunch: Digital Ecologies

Welcome to the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), based at the University of Toronto.The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The network defines the digital humanities broadly, including communities and methods, tools, and platform-based approaches often associated with the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on digitality and a wide variety of computational approaches to humanities research.To achieve this mandate, we facilitate events that bring together faculty, students, librarians, and staff from across the University’s tri-campus, such as lightning lunches, workshops, and an annual conference. Our monthly lightning lunches focus on a specific topic or contemporary issue with experts from different disciplines to explore threads of commonality and nuance. It is always our hope that these lightning lunches will lead to the formation of new networks, research projects, and shared knowledge. Our workshops address the technical and theoretical issues found across our members’ research needs. These workshops range from technical programming to practical research applications. Finally, our annual conference brings together these disparate groups to network and examine our shared interest in digitality.In addition to organizing events, we distribute a weekly newsletter, which digests relevant events, calls-for-proposals, and jobs around the Toronto area, and provide one-on-one consultation with our members to advise them and direct them to relevant resources at the University.Please email dhn.admin@utoronto.ca to get in touch and to subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

Digital Humanities Network

On Tuesday September 24, join us as scholars of science and the humanities reflect on the topic ‘Digital Ecologies’

Jackman Humanities Building

Join us for the first <a href="https://dhn.utoronto.ca/lightning-lunches/" title="https://dhn.utoronto.ca/lightning-lunches/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CDHI Lightning Lunch</a> of the 2024 Fall Term! On Tuesday September 24, three speakers will reflect on the topic ‘Digital Ecologies.’ Technology is fundamental to the work that Digital Humanities researchers conduct. But what are the environmental costs of an increasingly technological world? Are there ways that tech and social media can be a force for good in addressing climate crisis? Join us for presentations and conversation as researchers speak to the intersections of technology and the natural world, and the role of the digital humanities in untangling these complexities. Speakers<a href="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/engdept/person/heidi-craig" title="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/engdept/person/heidi-craig" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Heidi Craig</a> (English, UTSC), Addressing E-Waste as Socio-Technical Problem <a href="https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/hanna-e-morris" title="https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/hanna-e-morris" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Hanna E. Morris</a> (Environment, U of T), Climate Justice and Digital Media<a href="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/physsci/frank-wania" title="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/physsci/frank-wania" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Frank Wania</a> (Physical and Environmental Sciences, UTSC), Ecological Unequal Exchange This event will take place in-person, in JHB 1040 (10th floor, Jackman Humanities Building). The event starts at 12:00 pm EST, and attendees can enjoy a light lunch during the event. Attendance is free, but space is limited. All attendees must register in advance.

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