Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
Genre	Digital Humanities
Frequency	Annually
Venue	University of Victoria
Location(s)	Victoria, BC
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	2001
Website
dhsi.org

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital humanities training program held in June at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. DHSI now attracts over 600 participants for a week of courses, forum discussions, paper sessions, and unconferences.

DHSI started in 2001 at Vancouver Island University (then Malaspina C-U). The inaugural DHSI event included lead speakers Susan Hockey (University College London), Nancy Ide (Vassar C), Willard McCarty (Kings College London), and John Unsworth (U Virginia). Professors such as Susan Schreibman (U Maryland), Ray Siemens (U Victoria), and staff from the Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation were instructors. In 2004, DHSI moved to the University of Victoria, which is where it currently resides. It is estimated that, as of 2012, there were approximately 1,800 alumni of the institute, with a large portion returning over a period of multiple years to take further courses.

In both the past and present, major overarching themes of DHSI have included collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and the creation and cultivation of a larger Digital Humanities community beyond the structure of the typical academic environment. It has been especially noted that DHSI encourages opportunities for digital humanists at all stages of their careers, levels of expertise in the field, and roles in the contribution to the Digital Humanities to engage and network with each other.

DHSI includes courses and presentations on various areas of research, including:

The DH Training Network includes:

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