Graduate Colloquium

Featuring lightening talks by the Sherman Centre's 2019-2020 graduate residents in digital scholarship. Experience a beta version of a tool for tracking internet blackouts worldwide, discover how computer-assisted textual analysis and early modern devotion share similar motivations for organizing and categorizing, and learn about the impact of extreme heat events on Hamilton’s immigrant populations. Bring your lunch!

Sorting Early Modern Devotion: A question of categories raised by computer-assisted textual analysis of Edward Wettenhall’s Enter into thy Closet (1666) 
Jantina Ellens (PhD Candidate, English & Cultural Studies) 

Are you online??  Presenting: The Internet Blackout Tracker (IBT)  - Tracking Internet Blackouts Worldwide 
Helen Beny (PhD Student, Political Science) 

Health Vulnerability to Extreme Heat Events in Hamilton 
Joann Varickanickal (MA Student, Geography & Earth Sciences) 

For full abstracts: https://scds.ca/events/colloquium/2019-2020/

For bios and project details: https://scds.ca/projects/graduate-residents/current/