Events

Featuring Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA), this panel will examine how technological developments are evolving academic inquiry across disciplines, enhancing research purpose and capacity, and fundamentally reshaping scholarly questions, approaches, and knowledge dissemination. Date:  Wednesday, August 20, 2025 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Brock Commons South 2070 Through personal case studies, we will discuss how emerging […]

  The 2nd Annual Arts Student Showcase on Digital & Computational Scholarship event celebrated student research across the UBC Faculty of Arts. The showcase highlighted projects that engage digital, computational, and interdisciplinary approaches to exploring social, cultural, and creative questions. Students presented their work through lightning talks, posters, and interactive demonstrations. The event also featured […]

  A knowledge-sharing brunch workshop for digitally curious Faculty of Arts scholars. The event features short presentations by faculty using digital and computational methods -showcasing how these tools have transformed their research capacity, outputs, and questions. Presentations are followed by a brainstorming session where participants explore ways to integrate digital and computational approaches into their […]

  In this talk, Lauren Craig Tilton and Taylor Arnold introduce distant viewing as a theory for understanding how AI systems see images. How do computers see? How can we harness AI to study and communicate the complexities of human culture and society in the past and present? The talk will introduce the concept of […]

Celebrating the expansive landscape of digital and computational scholarship in the Faculty of Arts at UBC, we invite students to share their innovative research at our annual end of year showcase. The event bridges academic disciplines within the Faculty through multiple presentation formats; lightning talks, interactive demonstrations, and poster sessions, offering a flexible platform for […]

DiSA and the Research Commons invite all UBC community members who are working on TEI-XML projects to join us for a number of two-hour co-working sessions over the fall term. If you are looking for a community of practice or just some motivation to keep working on that TEI project, please join us! These are […]

The final gathering of our TEI Summer Sessions focused on digital literacy, character sets, and the language of the web (e.g. unicode, XML syntax, etc.); multilingual text encoding practices (including languages that read right to left); and a variety of questions about language-based handling of digital texts encoded in TEI-XML. We recommend installing Oxygen XML […]

Part of the TEI Summer Sessions co-hosted at SFU and UBC, this event focused on encoding, researching, and tagging entities in TEI. Topics included how to encode organizations and people–names, personae, voices, states, traits, etc.–and how to find biographical and prosopographical data about them. We will also discuss locating and encoding places (physical and conceptual), […]

This session offered an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, the session provided a hands-on introduction to how the TEI facilitates editorial markup for manuscript and print texts. Topics  included encoding manuscript features–such as additions, deletions, and other revisions in one or more hands–and editorial interventions, such as editorial notes, gaps, and […]

Are you considering or currently working on a textual project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML? Do you want to work in community with other scholars who are using TEI-XML in their research projects? The Adaptive TEI Network is hosting a hands-on TEI working session for anyone with an upcoming or current TEI project. […]