Critical Digital Humanities International Conference

The (CDHI) at the University of Toronto cordially invites your to join us for our 2022 international conference, to take place Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2022.

This year’s foregrounds critical DH research, praxis, and community partnerships. Critical DH is an intersectional field that emphasizes questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in making, analyzing, and using digital technologies. This is a version of digital humanities that places anti-racist, de/anti/postcolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, and which understands our current shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation. Critical DH foregrounds creative praxis, co-creation, public engagement, and community-based research.

Confirmed keynote speakers include , President of Invert Media and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; , Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media Studies, Simon Fraser University; and , Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan. Keynotes will be live-streamed.

Additionally, we will host in a special virtual plenary session , Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the University of California-Los Angeles Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), , Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities at Northeastern University, and , Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division at Columbia University Library

All faculty, librarians, museum practitioners, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and community partners are welcome to attend! A snapshot of the program is included below. The full program is available on our .

Friday, September 30

9:15-9:30 am Welcome/Land Acknowledgement

9:30-11:00 am Virtual Plenary: Jennifer Wemigwans

11:10-12:40 pm Virtual Sessions 1-6

12:40-1:10 pm Lunch

1:10-2:40 pm Special Session and Virtual Sessions 7-10

2:50-4:20 pm Virtual Sessions 11-15

4:30-6:00 pm In-person Plenary: Lisa Nakamura

6:00-7:30 pm Opening Reception

Saturday, October 1

9:00-10:30 am In-person Sessions 1, 2, 3

10:45-12:15 pm In-person Sessions 4, 5, 6

12:15-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:30 pm In-person Sessions 7, 8, 9

2:45-4:15 pm In-person Sessions 10, 11, 12

4:30-6:00 pm In-person Plenary: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

6:00-7:30 pm Closing Reception

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1 Devonshire Pl, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Canada