February 12, 2024, 1:45-2:45 pm EST

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Presented by: Graham Jensen, Ray Siemens and Randa El Khatib

Duration: 60 minutes

Description: Are you interested in sharing your work and connecting with other academic or non-academic researchers using a free, open platform that combines features of social networking sites and institutional repositories? Join us for this live introduction and demo, where participants will learn how to establish a professional profile, build community, and develop and mobilize knowledge using the Canadian HSS Commons (https://hsscommons.ca) — an in-development, national-scale network designed and built for the linguistically, geographically, and culturally diverse community of HSS researchers in Canada. This event will take place in English, but slides translated into French will also be available.

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Biographies

Dr. Graham Jensen is an Assistant Director and Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellow in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Humanities) in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. He is co-lead of research, development, and strategy on the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons. He is also Principal Investigator of the Canadian Modernist Magazines Project. Previously at the University of Victoria, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and Limited Term Assistant Professor in English. His research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Canadian literatures, modernism, literature and religion, and digital humanities approaches to open publishing, pedagogy, and community-building.

Dr. Ray Siemens (https://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/) is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; in 2019, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at U Loughborough and, 2019-22, Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at U Newcastle. He is founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, and his publications include, among others, Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities (2004, 2015 with Schreibman and Unsworth), the Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007, with Schreibman), A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS (2012, 2015; MRTS/Iter & Wikibooks, with Crompton et al.), Literary Studies in the Digital Age (2014; MLA, with Price), Doing Digital Humanities (2017; Routledge, with Crompton and Lane), and The Lyrics of the Henry VIII MS (2018; RETS). He directs the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, recently serving as a member of governing council for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as Vice President / Director of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (for Research Dissemination), Chair of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, and Chair of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

Dr. Randa El Khatib is the MITACS Accelerate and INKE Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. She is also the Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute with Alyssa Arbuckle and Ray Siemens. Until recently, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Editor of Early Modern Digital Review, a journal that reviews digital projects that study the early modern world. In 2015, Randa co-founded the Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut – the first digital humanities training institute in the Middle East – with David Joseph Wrisley.