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Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War

According to @theglobeandmail.com, the latest book from Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross (@uvichistory.bsky.social) is "essential reading."

Read the review: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

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In honour of Remembrance Day, we’re highlighting the Canadian Great War Project, a searchable database dedicated to those who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force from 1914-1919. The site has collected records of 648,376 people so far, promoting awareness of Canada’s participation in WWI.

Victoria monument to honour uprooted Japanese Canadians A 300-foot-long wall will be etched with the names of more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were forcibly removed from the West Coast and sent to internment camps during the Second World War.

The HCMC is proud to contribute to the important work being done by the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society. Read more about it here:

🎉 Our very own Martin Holmes reached 30 years of service at UVic! His brilliance and expertise are invaluable to not just UVic and the HCMC, but to the whole field of digital humanities. Congratulations on your achievement, Martin!

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🎉 The HCMC is thrilled that the Endings Project has won the TEI 2025 Community Prize, with the project described as "one of the most significant contributions to scholarly digital publishing of the last decade." More info at the link below!

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We're excited to announce that the UVic Environmental Humanities Collective website has been published at ehco.uvic.ca. If you're interested in learning more about environmental humanities or about UVic faculty working in that field, check it out!

The Technical Council of @teiconsortium.bsky.social discussing the issues raised by #TEI community prior to the #tei2025 conference @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Thank you to the excellent local organisers for accommodating the Technical Council and organising such a wonderful conference.

Talks during day 1 of the Kula: Library Futures Academy launch were inspiring. Looking forward to day 2!

The HCMC is proud to be supporting the CICR project, which addresses historical injustices in higher education settings focusing on Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. They have a pop-up exhibition in the lobby of the McPherson Library until Sept 14. Come check it out!

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The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is finally out in its final version!!
Thank you to a brilliant team at LEMDO
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Next up is Alison Chapman presenting on the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP, based at @uvichcmc.bsky.social)

32% of all DVPP poems are overtly related to another poem

She argues that periodicals with high cultural prestige invest in networks of poems

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

Once a Week (magazine) - Wikipedia

- *Once a Week* had gorgeously illustrated monthly poems ("January", "February", etc.) creating a multi-authored and multi-illustrated series

#RSVP2025

Making science accessible through political uncertainty - UVic News In the digital age, data is the lifeblood of research and discovery. Too much research remains hidden behind paywalls. As the research community calls for

@uvic.ca scholars—including @uvichcmc.bsky.social director @janellejenstad.bsky.social—are using digital tools to make science accessible through political uncertainty.

#DigitalHumanities #LibraryScience

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Linked Early Modern Drama is on Bluesky! We are housed at @uvic.ca and supported by @uvichumanities.bsky.social. #earlyModernDrama #Shakespeare #digitalEditions #editing #textEncoding

Poster for Dr. Sarah Neville's talk. Text reads: Renaissance herbals—sixteenth and seventeenth century printed guides to plants, herbs, and trees, sometimes beautifully illustrated—were among the best-sellers in their time. Yet, the most popular of these books were the least likely to survive readers, making them paradoxically obscure. This talk will explore the phenomenon of the English herbal, showing how botanical knowledge in print came to be seen as a valuable commodity that early modern readers were eager to buy. Dr. Neville is jointly appointed in English and in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an Assistant Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), Co-Coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions and the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, and General Textual Editor for Linked Early Modern Drama Online. Neville’s latest book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England. She is currently editing 2 Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare. UVic’s Public Lectures Series features accomplished individuals from a vast array of academic and research endeavours. As host of this lecture series, UVic continues its commitment to making a vital impact on people, places, and the planet. For disability accommodation call 250-721-6271

📣 Upcoming Lansdowne public lecture! 📣

In "Renaissance Botany and the Landscapes of Early Printed Books," LEMDO General Textual Editor Dr. Sarah Neville will be speaking on English herbals of the 16th-17th C. 🌱🌿📚

Date: Monday, March 10
Time: 7 pm
Where: Clearihue Building A207
Cost: Free!

HCMC will be closed February 17 for Family Day.

We will be open again starting February 18 for the rest of reading week. 📚📚

George, the University of Victoria resident peacock, sits perched on a concrete wall.

The University of Victoria is officially on Bluesky! What better way to kick things off than with George, our widely adored (though unofficial) mascot.

The Unessay Competition Express your research with complete freedom of form.

#HumanitiesWeek has been a blast! We hope you'll join our final event, the annual Unessay Competition, tonight @ 6:30 PST (online). Students will share their research with complete freedom of form, and you'll get to vote on your favourite works!

Register: events.uvic.ca/humanities/e...

HCMC developer Martin Holmes has rescued and rebuilt the British Book Trade Index (BBTI) project as a static, Endings-compliant site! 📚🧐

Check it out at hcmc.uvic.ca/project/bbti...

You can also find info about the BBTI and links to alternatives for accessing its dataset at bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World: in conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence?

A snow day doesn't need to stop you from joining the first event of #HumanitiesWeek tonight! ❄️

Join us online for a discussion with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay TONIGHT, February 4 @ 5PM PST, online over Zoom! Register to get the link: events.uvic.ca/humanities/e...

HCMC is closed today due to the winter weather conditions. ☃️❄️

HCMC is delighted to welcome Humanities Co-op student Alexandria Brooks. Based in HCMC, Alex is working for the Past Wrongs Future Choices Archives Cluster.

Looking for Canadian #research organizations and universities? Follow and share our starter packs, and let us know if you'd like to be added!

Research organizations and universities in Canada part 1
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Research organizations and universities in Canada part 2
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You're invited to join us for the 7th annual #HumanitiesWeek, featuring four events on the theme Diaspora Stories.

Explore exile and return, home and community, empire and loss, and global stories of complex identities and imperial legacies.

Details: hcmc.uvic.ca/humanitieswe...

Looking back at the old year and ahead to the New Year! Here's Emma in Special Collections photographing Arthur Rackham's watercolour of "Fafner Guarding Alberich's Ring" in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Can you spot the dragon? #fafner #alberich #arthurrackhamillustration #uvic

Our winter workstation schedule:
-Dec. 16-20: Closed for Professional Development
-Dec. 23-24: Open for bookings!
-Dec. 25-Jan. 1: Closed for UVic's winter break
-Jan. 2: Open for the new semester!

Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Lon Academic libraries and archives struggle to preserve Digital Humanities (DH) projects due to the divide between faculty expectations and operational realities

"Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity" has just been published in The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities. Many thanks to @gworthey.bsky.social & Isabel Galina Russell, eds. extraordinaire! doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Endings Principle of the Month:

4.2 No boutique or fashionable technologies: use only standards with support across all platforms, whose long-term viability is assured. Our choices are HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.

Interested in web standards for your #DH project? See endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Endings Principle of the Month:

4.1 No dependence on server-side software: build a static website with no databases, no PHP, no Python.

For more on how your processing can contribute to the longevity of your #DH project, visit endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Endings Principle of the Month:

3.3 Code is contingent: while code is not expected to have significant longevity, wherever possible, all code should follow Endings principles for data and products.

For more on making #DigitalHumanities projects last longer, visit endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...