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Past Events & Video Archive
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Comics, Anthropology, and Digital Pedagogy
10th Mar 2016 4:00:pm
Lissa: Still Time is a collaborative work of graphic medical anthropology undertaken by Coleman Nye (SFU) and Sherine Hamdy (Brown University) in which we use comics to convey ethnographic insights about bioethics and global health in two vastly different settings: that of the contemporary Arab world, and that of the United States. The authors developed...Digital Textualities in South Asia: A Research Symposium at UBC
4th Mar 2016
How might new technologies help us preserve and make better sense of the vast but vulnerable textual cultures of the pre-digital age?Historical Geographic Information System: Budapest in 1897
26th Feb 2016 4:00:pm
This project is an attempt to combine data from an address book of Budapest in 1897 with a historical map of the city in the same year: by doing so, the hope is to understand how a modernizing city at the turn of the century functioned and developed into a modern urban ecosystem. Budapest was...Computational Modelling of Visual Art
19th Jan 2016 4:00:pm
Cognitive scientist and artist DiPaola uses eye tracking and computer modelling to show how artists such as Rembrandt intuit how the science of vision and perception function.Indigenous Storytelling in Cyberspace
18th Nov 2015
A recording of Dr. David Gaertner's talk on Indigenous Storytelling in Cyberspace.GIS for Humanists
3rd Nov 2015 1:30:pm
Via discussion and interactive exercises, this 2-hour hands-on workshop introduces selected GIS and mapping techniques commonly used by Humanities scholars.Topic Modeling with R for Humanists
20th Oct 2015 9:00:am
This workshop will introduce participants to topic modeling and demonstrate how to analyze and visualize topic model output in R.Beginning Python
17th Sep 2015 1:00:pm
In this 3 hour workshop, Alex Garnett will introduce participants to the fundamentals of Python as a first (or second) programming language. The workshop will provide an overview of syntax, best practices, and how to get from A to B in simple, purposeful tasks, taking string parsing as an example.The Role of TEI in Large Projects
27th Aug 2015 9:00:am
The workshop will address how TEI (the language of the Text Encoding Initiative) fits in to larger Digital Humanities projects.The Performance of Character: Digital Models for Gendered Speech in Romantic Literature
13th Jul 2015 4:30:pm
Mark Algee-Hewitt looks instead at the spectrum of gender performance through literary dialogue.Introduction to Databases for Humanists
25th Apr 2015 9:00:am
Learn the basics of data modelling for relational databases, the relational database development process, and querying relational databases using SQL (Structured Query Language).Workshops in Digital Media: 3D Digital Visualization for the Humanities
28th Mar 2015 1:00:pm
This workshop will act as a primer for the university researcher or instructor wishing to expand or refine their work utilizing digital media.Mediating Anthropology: Digital Archives and the Recirculation of Ethnographic Collections
26th Mar 2015 4:00:pm
Ever greater access to digital recording technology has seen contemporary research initiatives in the humanities and social sciences not only born digital, but often birthed straight into an archive. At the same time, earlier ethnographic collections are increasingly fragile, at risk of becoming analogue orphans when fragmented into their component parts based on the medium...Social Web Intelligence
21st Feb 2015 10:00:am
This workshop will introduce the theory and practice of basic concepts in network analysis, machine learning, and data mining to make sense of the social and information networks that have been fuelled and rendered accessible by the Internet.SFU-UBC Digital Salon
22nd Jan 2015 4:00:pm
Learn more about the Centre for Digital Media and the Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program.Beginning Python
17th Jan 2015 9:30:am
In this 3 hour workshop, Alex Garnett will introduce participants to the fundamentals of Python as a first (or second) programming language. The workshop will provide an overview of syntax, best practices, and how to get from A to B in simple, purposeful tasks, taking string parsing as an example. The workshop will include a...