The Center for Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary research center and academic unit within the Princeton University Library. We embrace an inclusive understanding of DH that investigates the myriad ways digital methods and technologies are opening new avenues for research into the human experience, past and present.

Upcoming Events

Workshop

Slavic DH Workshop: Russian Literary Studies in the Digital Age

May 28 9:30–5:00 PM
On May 28, the Slavic DH Working Group at Princeton will host a day-long workshop combining discussions, demonstrations and hands-on exploration of cutting-edge digital humanities approaches to the study of Russian literature. Frank Fischer and Boris Orekhov from the Higher School of Economics Centre for Digital Humanities (Moscow) will lead the workshop. Researchers at all levels of familiarity with DH are welcome to attend.
 
9:30–10:30am Introduction: The State of Digital Humanities in Russia
 
10:45am–12:15pm Programmable Corpora: A New Infrastructural Concept for Digital Literary Studies
Hands-on work with the Russian Drama Corpus
 
1:30-3:00pm Tolstoy Everywhere: Unleashing the Information Hidden in the 90-Volume “Collected Works”
An overview and exploration of the 91st Volume Project, a digitized index for the collected works of Leo Tolstoy
 
3:30- 5pm Neural Network Poetry Meets Distant Reading: Analyzing Computer-Generated Echoes of Russian Literary History
A discussion of the historical origins of computer-generated poetry and an introduction to neural-net approaches as a new practice of distant reading
 
More information here.
 
RSVP by Thursday May 23 here. Please note that non-Princeton guests must RSVP for access to Firestone Library. 
 
This event is sponsored by the Princeton Slavic Department and the Center for Digital Humanities
Reading Group

Reading Group: Meeting 9

June 6 12:00–1:20 PM

In 2108-2019, the the CDH Reading Group will partner with the Princeton University Library to explore the topic of "Collections as Data," and consider how Princeton’s library collections can be leveraged to support computationally-driven research and teaching. We invite members from the Princeton research community who play various roles in the creation, dissemination and use of library collections. Through short readings, discussions, presentations and hands-on activities, this group will identify ways that PUL collections are currently being exposed as data, and explore ways to better coordinate efforts to support and sustain cutting-edge data-driven scholarship at Princeton.

Projects

Built by CDH

Princeton Prosody Archive

Compelling users to rethink the past through a collection of historical prosodic works.
Built by CDH

The Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris.
Built by CDH

Derrida’s Margins

An online research tool for the philosopher’s annotations that provides a behind-the-scenes look at his reading practices and the philosophy of deconstruction.
Built by CDH

The Winthrop Family on the Page

Developing a web platform to provide a dynamic sense of how colonial readers interacted with texts and each other.

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