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Dear Arts Digital Scholarship Community, I came into the role of DiSA Director believing Arts scholars are essential to the digital turn. Our disciplines ask the critical questions that technical systems require of their capacity, behaviours, and effects, while we also use them to expand our research processes, capacities, and outreach. DiSA began within the […]

Application links are provided at the end of the call description, please scroll. The Centre for Computational and Digital Social Science, Humanities, and Creative Arts (CODI Centre) at the University of British Columbia invites proposals for its 2027 Student Fellows Program. Selected Graduate Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend to support their research, and Selected […]

  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 […]

Using a provided collection of images, this workshop introduces computer vision and image embeddings, showing how pre-trained convolutional neural networks can be applied to art and image analysis and exploration. No previous programming experience is required, though those who know some Python will be able to follow the more advanced code. For those with no experience in […]

We are delighted to congratulate the three recipients of the 2025–2026 Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship (CEDS) Grant, co-presented by DiSA and UBC’s Public Humanities Hub, which provides $10,000 plus in kind, to support for collaborative critical inquiry and technological innovation.   (left) Associate Professor Patrick Parra Pennefather (Theatre and Film) was awarded for AI, Derivative Works, Emerging […]

DiSA is proud to announce the three inaugural recipients of the DiSA Digital Scholarship Incubator (DiSI), supported through a combination of funding and in-kind assistance.   (left) Associate Professor Ève Poudrier (Music) received the award for Encoding Francophone Folk Songs, using computer-assisted analysis to explore text-music interaction in 104 songs from Ernest Gagnon’s 1865 Chansons […]

Together with Dr. Kate Holland, Dr. Katherine Bowers has published an article called “The Failure of Form: Reading Liminality Computationally in Dostoevskii’s The Double” in the most recent issue of Slavic Review.

Scheduled for 2025 Winter T2, IEST_V 505A -201 is open to anyone with an interest in DH who has research questions or a corpora they’d like to address working in any language (including English).

Can we build a digital defense against the erasure of culture? Let’s explore together. Across the globe, the material remains of cultural heritage, some dating back millennia, face innumerable threats. In Syria, the ancient ruins of Tadmor, known to much of the world as Palmyra, have endured everything from colonial theft and neglect to military […]

The Centre for Computational Social Science (CCSS) is excited to announce a call for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. About CCSS: Based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia, CCSS serves as a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary scholarship. Our focus is on understanding the intersection of […]