Originally called The Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI), HILT was inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). HILT is an intensive digital humanities training institute: a slate of engaging courses taught by some of the best scholars and teachers in the digital humanities, plentiful opportunities to meet and network with colleagues, and access to all the cultural resources of the Washington, D.C., area. HILT has been held at University of Maryland, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania.

HILT 2019

Mon, Jun 3, 2019Fri, Jun 7, 2019
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Participants and instructors will gather on the campus of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana for our our 7th year of HILT.

HILT 2018

Mon, Jun 4, 2018Fri, Jun 8, 2018
University of Pennsylvania

This was the 6th year of HILT! Participants and instructors gathered from Monday, June 4 to Friday, June 8 on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In addition to the conference’s day-time sessions, participants enjoyed opportunities to explore the city through local dine-arounds and special cultural heritage experiences.

HILT 2017

Mon, Jun 5, 2017Fri, Jun 9, 2017
University of Texas at Austin

We welcomed 126 participants to HILT for our 5th anniversary year from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9! Participants and instructors gathered in Austin, Texas on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. HILT was hosted on campus by the UT Libraries and the School of Information.

HILT 2016

Mon, Jun 13, 2016Fri, Jun 17, 2016
Indiana Univesity-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

We welcomed 100 participants to HILT from Monday, June 13 to Friday, June 17! Participants and instructors gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana on the campus of the Indiana Univesity-Purdue University Indianapolis.

HILT 2015

Mon, Jul 27, 2015Fri, Jul 31, 2015
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

HILT 2015 occurred from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31 on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, located in Indianapolis, IN and was sponsored by the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, and MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University.

HILT 2015 welcomed over 100 digital humanists to the IUPUI campus, with representatives from liberal arts institutions, research universities, and cultural heritage organizations. More than half of attendees were graduate students, early career scholars, or humanities adjuncts representing over a dozen different humanities disciplines and sub-disciplines. This iteration of HILT responded to the growing demand for new types of digital aptitudes, as well as to our recognition of how important these opportunities are in revealing the daily work and research lives of digital humanities scholars.

HILT 2014

Mon, Aug 4, 2014Fri, Aug 8, 2014
University of Maryland, College Park

Inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), the Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute is in its second year at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Hosted August 4-8, 2014, on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park,we are offering a slate of incredible courses and instructors capped by networking events both with participants and local cultural heritage organizations. Confirmed instructors are:

  • Anastasia Salter, Games in the Classroom
  • Elijah Meeks, Network Analysis and Visualization
  • Jeremy Boggs and Jeri Wieringa, Introduction to Web Development, Design, and Principles: HTML5, CSS, and Javascript for beginners
  • Kam Woods and Porter Olsen, Born-Digital Forensics
  • Mark Algee-Hewitt, Large Scale Text Analysis with R
  • Simon Appleford and Jennifer Guiliano, Project Development
  • Wayne Graham and Brandon Walsh, Humanities Programming
  • Mia Ridge and Ben Brumfield, Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
  • Jarah Moesh, Critical Race and Gender in Digital Humanities

For the 2014 institute, we’ve expanded our offerings included a series of public DH opportunities to highlight the ways in which digital humanities is working in cultural heritage organizations. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of American History, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are each hosting a behind the scenes event to highlight how they are incorporating digital technologies in their institutions.

2014| Directors: Trevor Muñoz · Jennifer Guiliano| Topics: | Partner: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)|