Events – THINC Lab

Race & Technology Reading Group (Fall, 2021)

Dear UofG DH community, at the THINC lab, we are organizing a reading group for FALL 2021 on the topic of race & technology. We ran a similar initiative last winter and want to continue the tradition. The reading group is consensus-based (i.e., the group members will decide what texts we will read together). However, to gets us started, we are proposing to focus on selected chapters from the following books:

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons

We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women? There are many more facts about Wikipedia in this great article by Victoria Leonard. To invite the Guelph community to do its part, Scholars Studio and THINC Lab are holding a new monthly event: Wikipedia Hackathons.

IF…Speaker Series

Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University and the author of Dear Science and Other Stories. Join her at the University of Guelph THINCLab for a conversation about her new work on science and Black methodologies. She is also the editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being as Human Praxis and author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. She writes in the area of Black studies, Black geographies, sound, and technologies.

DIGIcafé

Join us in THINC Lab for this lecture and discussion series covering a range of issues and topics in digital humanities.

DIGIdo

Did you know that Compute Canada has a growing research suite of tools aimed at humanities scholars and social scientists. Join John Morton of SHARCNET for an introduction to Compute Canada's (https://www.computecanada.ca/) support for research computing. Date: Wednesday, October 3rdTime: 12 noonPlace: THINC Lab, 2nd floor, library