Digital Humanities Workshop

[Donna Lang]

Researchers from Waterloo and two neighbouring universities will take part
in a "Digital Humanities Workshop" at the end of this week, September
30-October 1.  A tech fair session on Friday at the Communitech Digital Hub
in Kitchener, then speakers in two sessions at the University of Guelph on
Saturday. "Over the past several decades," says a web site, "the various
disciplines in the humanities have been incorporating the tools and methods
of computers into all facets of their work - from research and preservation
to teaching and more general dissemination.  This two-day event aims at
bringing together practitioners who use the digital humanities in
Southwestern Ontario and beyond."

Speakers will include Ian Wilson, former chief librarian of Canada, now
associated with Waterloo's Stratford Institute, and Christine McWebb of the
French studies department, the director of academic programs at the
Stratford campus. Details of the workshop are found at:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/DHW2011