Chronological list of DiSA events.

April 13, 2026
Join us for the Arts Student Showcase on Digital & Computational Scholarship, an end-of-year event celebrating student research across the UBC Faculty of Arts. The showcase highlights projects that engage digital, computational, and interdisciplinary approaches to exploring social, cultural, and creative questions. Students will present their work through lightning talks, posters, and interactive demonstrations. […]

Monday, March 9, 2026
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 […]
April 13, 2026
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 […]

Due March 18, 2026
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 […]

Various Dates in Fall 2025
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 […]

August 11, 2025
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 […]

July 23, 2025
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), […]

June 27, 2025
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 […]

April 16, 2025
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. […]

April 11, 2025
Highlighting the breadth, depth and innovative use of digital and computational scholarship in graduate student research, we invite you to the Arts Graduate Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship, an end-of-term showcase celebrating graduate student research across the Faculty of Arts. The event will feature lightning talks, posters, valuable community building and networking opportunities, […]