Announcing the Winner of the 2025 Ian Lancashire Award for Student Promise, Yann Audin!
The CSDH/SCHN Executive Committee is delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Ian Lancashire Award for Student Promise! This year’s award recipient is Yann Audin (he/him; il/lui), a PhD candidate in literature – digital humanities at University of Montreal, supported by funding from SSHRC and FRQ. Audin holds a Master in Comparative Literature from UdeM and another in physics from Bishop’s University. His latest publication appears in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique and
Remembering Ian Lancashire
Dear fellow digital humanists, It is with saddness that we report that Ian Lacashire died on April 3rd, 2025. Born in Winnepeg, Manitoba in 1942 he studied at the University of Manitoba and University of Toronto where he was first hired in 1967 and from which he retired a Full Professor. Ian Lancashire was instrumental in the development of humanities computing in Canada. In the 1980s he established, with support from IBM Canada, the Centre
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CSDH/SCHN conférence 2016
Calgary, Alberta, 30 mai – 1 juin 2016 La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH-SCHN.org) invite les chercheurs(res), les praticiens(ciennes) et étudiants(tes) aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication, de sessions et des démonstrations numériques lors de ce rassemblement collectif qui aura lieu au Congrès des sciences humaines
CSDH/SCHN conférence 2016
Calgary, Alberta, 30 mai – 1 juin 2016 La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH-SCHN.org) invite les chercheurs(res), les praticiens(ciennes) et étudiants(tes) aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication, de sessions et des démonstrations numériques lors de ce rassemblement collectif qui aura lieu au Congrès des sciences humaines
Appel à candidatures pour le prix CSDH/SCHN – Début de carrière exceptionnelle
Le prix CSDH/SCHN – Début de carrière exceptionnelle vise à reconnaitre la contribution exceptionnelle d’un(e) chercheur(se) canadien(ne) ou d’un(e) résident(e) permanent(e) ou un(e) chercheur(se) dans un établissement canadien pendant le début de sa carrière. Pour être admissibles, les candidats doivent avoir obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins de 10 ans. Les candidats
Chad Gaffield gagne le prix de contribution exceptionnelle de la Société canadienne des humanités numériques
Le 2 juin 2015 Chad Gaffield a livré une conférence lors d’un événement célébrant sa contribution exceptionnelle aux humanités numériques au Canada et à travers le monde. Veuillez consulter l’annonce originale pour plus de détails sur ce qui a value ce prix à Chad Gaffield. La Société canadienne des humanités est très
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Call for Nominations: The CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Achievement Award for Computing in the Arts and Humanities
The CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Achievement Award for Computing in the Arts and Humanities acknowledges a Canadian researcher or a researcher at a Canadian institution who has made a significant contribution, over an extended career, to computing in the arts and humanities, whether theoretical, applied, or in the area of community building.
Stéfan Sinclair, In Memoriam
C’est avec tristesse que nous vous annonçons le décès de Stéfan Sinclair, qui nous a quittés le 6 août 2020 à Montréal, au Canada, entouré de sa famille. (version français ci-dessous) It saddens us to write that on the morning of August 6th, 2020 Stéfan Sinclair passed away in Montréal,
2020 Ian Lancashire Student Promise Award: Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani
CSDH/SCHN is pleased to announce the winner of the annual Ian Lancashire Graduate Student Promise Award. This year’s award recipient is Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani, a student in the MA in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna, with a background in human evolutionary biology. They have
Executive positions — nominations now open
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (Société canadienne des humanités numériques) welcomes nominations and self-nominations for the Executive positions that have become open as of our Annual General Meeting on June 5th: Vice President, French (the term is 3 years)- Member at Large (the term is 2 years) Student Member
T-13 hours: Building Community Online
With less than a day to go before our annual CSDH-SCHN conference, I thought it might be good to post a short piece on what we hope comes out of this virtual event and some things that participants can do in order to help things flow smoothly. But first, and
DH Hangouts (early risers and afternoon coffee)
We all know that the best part of conferences are those unexpected encounters with colleagues in the hallway or over a meal. Though CSDH is online this year, we’re hoping to provide some space for this to happen in the form of Early Risers Hangout (from 10 – 11 EST)
CSDH/SCHN 2020 Outstanding Contribution Award: Hear, Here London
Hear, Here London and its team are the winners of the CSDH/SCHN 2020 Outstanding Contribution Award. Hear, Here is led by Dr. Ariel Beaujot, an Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and an Associate Visiting Professor Department of History University of Western. Hear, Here London is directed by
An Online Conference: How will this work?
All presenters have been asked to upload a version of their talk to our own Humanities Commons Group, at least one week prior to their scheduled session. This version of the talk can take many forms: it could be a written draft of a paper, slides with notes, a video
Change of Venue, Change of Theme
CSDH/SCHN takes seriously the statement made by the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) that an online Congress of the Humanities would be ineffectual and inappropriate, particularly as the online format would make it impossible to properly engage Congress’s theme of Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism. The CSDH/SCHN PC
CSDH / SCHN 2020 moving online
Dear CSDH-SCHN Community, As we plan for our annual meeting we are taking the recent spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) very seriously. The CSDH-SCHN Program Committee and the CSDH-SCHN Executive met this week and have decided that, for our 2020 meeting, we are going to make the move to an online