The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton is an interdisciplinary research center that brings together faculty, staff, students, and community partners working at the intersection of the humanities and technology. We create and apply digital tools to humanistic questions and critically engage with the promises and risks that technology poses to society.

Explore our website to learn more about our team, projects, and opportunities. Request a consultation to speak to us about your ideas. For the latest news, sign up for our biweekly newsletter and follow us on Twitter. 

We hope to connect with you soon!

 

Upcoming Events

Course

Fall 2020 Course - Privacy, Publicity, and the Text Message

Grant R. Wythoff
August 31 - November 24

Privacy, Publicity, and the Text Message - AMS 343 / ENG 238 / HUM 342

W: 1:30-3:20 PM

This seminar will explore how we negotiate the distance between ourselves and others through text messages. Texts sustain an ambient intimacy that is increasingly redefining borders that range from the interpersonal--via anonymous mental health support--to the international--via reporting platforms for immigrant communities. What technical and social expectations of privacy do we operate with when sending a point-to-point message? How do novelists incorporate text messages into works of fiction? What does it mean that Frank Ocean can sing, "you text nothing like you look"?

View course details.

Course

Fall 2020 Course - Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice

Ruha Benjamin
August 31 - November 24

Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice - AAS 339 / EGR 339

M: 1:30-3:20 PM

Are robots racist? Is software sexist? Are neural networks neutral? From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed up, and even deepen discrimination. Using the Black Mirror TV series as a starting point, we will explore a range of emerging technologies that encode inequity in digital platforms and automated decisions systems, and develop a conceptual toolkit to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. Students will apply design justice principles in a collaborative project and learn to communicate course insights to tech practitioners, policy makers, and the broader public.

View course details.

Reading Group

"The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield

November 2 11:00–12:00 PM

The “Shakespeare and Company Project” conducts a discussion of Mansfield's collection of short stories.

The discussion is the first in a series of explorations of titles frequently borrowed from Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop and lending library in Paris, was opened by American Sylvia Beach in 1919. The shop became the home away from home for a community of expatriate writers and artists now known as the Lost Generation. 

Presented in partnership with Princeton Public Library.

Made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Projects

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.

Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project

Folklore about How the Virgin Mary Helps Believers in Ethiopian Literature and Art
Built by CDH

Princeton Prosody Archive

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

Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris.

About

Annual Report

History of CDH