DH@Guelph is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our summer workshops!

The DH@Guelph Summer Workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, May 19th-22nd, 2026. We hope you can join us for what promises to be an exciting week!

The four-day workshops will run 9-4:30, Tuesday-Friday.

The 2026 workshops are:

Introduction to Database Design
UX for Digital Humanities: Designing Inclusive and Engaging User Experiences
TEI and Digital Edition Production with LEAF Commons
Rest as Resistance: Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation
Dead Media, Living Data: Hacking the Archive
Humanities Pedagogy in the Age of AI: Critical Frameworks & Practical Strategies
Making: A Feminist Praxis (Theme: Refusal and Complaint)
Building Multimodal Generative AI Agents for Humanities
Intro to Soundscapes: Listening, Scoring, Field Recording, and Remixing

Announcing our Keynote: TIKA

DH@Guelph is thrilled to welcome TIKA as our keynote speaker for the 2026 Summer Workshops!

Rest as Resistance in Distressing Times:

Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation

Abstract: In an era defined by constant connectivity, crisis fatigue, and emotional overload, rest has become both a personal necessity and a political act. This keynote explores rest as a form of “emotional technology” — a set of practices that support regulation, creativity, and collective resilience. Drawing from film scoring, community facilitation, and healing-centered pedagogy, TIKA examines how rest, creativity, and digital culture intersect. She invites participants to consider how creative practice can move beyond productivity and performance toward sustainability, nervous-system literacy, and collective care. This talk offers a framework for understanding rest not as disengagement, but as a tool for imagination, resistance, and future-building within digital humanities and beyond.

TIKA’s keynote will take place the first evening of the workshops. All are welcome to attend this free talk. Register for the keynote here. Registering for the workshops will automatically register you for this free, open talk.

You can find all workshop and keynote details on the DH@Guelph website.

You can register for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops at this link, and please don't hesitate to email dhguelph[@]uoguelph.ca with any questions or concerns.

We have attached posters for the keynote and the workshops and would appreciate it if you would circulate these to your networks.

We look forward to seeing you in May!

Warmly,

Kim Martin and Paul Barrett (Co-Directors), DH@Guelph