Events

Chronological list of DiSA events.


Arts Student Showcase on Digital & Computational Scholarship


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. […]

Distant Viewing and the Multimodal AI Turn with Lauren Craig Tilton and Taylor Arnold


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 […]

Integrating Digital and Computational Dimensions into Arts Research


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 […]

2026 Call for Arts Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship


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 […]

TEI Fall Work Sessions


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 […]

TEI Summer Session 3: Encoding Language


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 […]

TEI Summer Session 2: Encoding Entities: People, Orgs, Time and Place


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), […]

TEI Summer Session 1: Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI


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 […]

Encoding TEI-XML in Community: A Hands-on Working Session


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. […]

2025 Arts Graduate Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship


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, […]