The Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC cordially invites you to the following talks in conjunction with our search for an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – Digital and Public History:
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Dr. Matt Price
Matt Price is a historian of science currently teaching at U of T's St. George campus. He was trained at Stanford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and worked at Cornell University and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science before moving to Toronto in 2001. Since 2010 his primary pedagogical focus has been on digital humanities and recent trends in information culture; he currently teaches core courses in the Digital Humanities undergraduate programe at UTSG, and a Digital History sequence in the History Department on that campus. From 2016 to 2020 he was a founding member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), an international grassroots network of academics and others concerned with the erosion of environmental law in the United States; he is also a founder or co-founder of numerous technical education projects, most recently Code At the Edge, which develops web development curricula aimed at young schoolchildren in remote Himalayan villages. Since about 2015 he has also cultivated an interest in immersive experiential education, often in so-called "extreme" locations (e.g., mountains and rivers). He is an avid Great Lakes surfer and kayaker.
Teaching talk: Spatial History: Maps, Data, and Truth
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 from 10:00am to 12:00pm on Zoom
This demo will be an advanced undergraduate talk - a third-year Digital History course. Please read the following articles in advance, if possible:
- Krygier, J., & Wood, Donald, “Ce N’est Pas Le Monde”, In M. Dodge, R. Kitchin, & C. Perkins (Eds.), Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory . (London, UK: Routledge, 2009).
- Daniel Rueck, “‘I do not know the boundaries of this land, but I know the land which I worked’: Historical GIS and Mohawk Land.”, in Bonnell & Fortin, Historical GIS Research in Canada. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014). Also available to download directly from the press.
Code
- The code for the exercise is online on github, and a live demo can be seen here.
- The slide deck will be available here at the time of the presentation (link may not be live earlier.) The source code is also available.
Informal meeting with undergraduate students
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 from 5:05pm to 5:30pm on Zoom
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Dr. Francesca DˈAmico-Cuthbert
Dr. Francesca D'Amico-Cuthbert is the 2020-2021 Community-Engaged Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Dr. D’Amico-Cuthbert received her PhD in History (Fall 2019, fields of American, Cultural and Women and Gender History) from York University and she specializes in the history of Hip Hop, the socio-political usages of culture, and the politics of the music marketplace and broader culture industries. Her PhD work traced how Black rappers in the era of mass incarceration constructed complex ethnographies of urban spaces, transformed dispositions of power, and unmasked the modes and mechanisms of a persistent and haunting coloniality in the afterlives of American slavery. Her current postdoctoral research project, “The Politics of ‘Urban Music’: A Case Study of the Toronto Hip Hop Community and Rap Music Marketplace, 1985-2010,” is a social history of power relations that explores Toronto Rap music’s relationship to commerce, anti-Black market segmentation, and the availability of state revenue streams and marketplace exposure. As a scholar with interests in Hip Hop based pedagogy, Dr. D’Amico-Cuthbert also works with the community-building think tank Hip Hop Education Center and currently serves on the education committee of the Universal Hip Hop Museum which is dedicated to the preservation of Hip Hop’s history and is set to open in the Bronx, New York City in 2024.
Teaching talk: Digging in the Crates: Popular Culture and Digitizing Hidden Histories
Monday, March 1st, 2021 from 10:00am to 12:00pm on Zoom
Informal meeting with undergraduate students
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 from 5:05pm to 5:30pm on Zoom
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Dr. Jessica van Horssen
Dr. Jessica van Horssen attainted her PhD at the University of Western Ontario in 2010, and won the Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History with her dissertation on the history of the town of Asbestos, Quebec, which was published as the monograph, A Town Called Asbestos (UBC Press, 2014). She launched the Public History specialism at York University in 2012, and integrated a student internship programme alongside the course, so students could gain valuable experience working at local heritage sites. As a Senior Lecturer in North American History at Leeds Beckett University (UK), she has developed a Digital History specialism designed to engage Humanities students in emergent technology within the field, and the Royal Historical Society recognized her teaching innovation in 2020 as a result of these efforts. Her specialization is in using both Digital and Public History to highlight the rich histories of marginalized populations, with past projects involving the creation of online graphic novels and web series on the history of the working-class, as well as delivering touring pop-up exhibitions on minority experiences of war and an immersive techno-science experience at Edinburgh Fringe festival on the history of plastics and plastics pollution. She leads a School-wide committee focused on digitizing the curriculum, and is an Associate of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Leeds Beckett to develop and disseminate best practice in digital teaching and learning. As an active historian who uses both Digital and Public History to engage students and the wider public, she is currently exploring plastic simulations of nature, alongside researching and writing about best practice in Digital Public History teaching and outreach.
Teaching talk: Gaming the Moon Race: Alternative Narratives of Apollo 11 and Civil Rights in America
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 from 9:00am to 11:00am on Zoom
Informal meeting with undergraduate students
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 from 5:05pm to 5:30pm on Zoom