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.

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Upcoming Events

Information Session

Humanities Data Teaching Fellows Information Session

Grant R. Wythoff
January 27 2:00–3:00 PM

Join us for a virtual information session on a new opportunity for Princeton Ph.D. students: the Humanities Data Teaching Fellowship. Fellows will bring their humanities subject expertise to a pathbreaking data sciences curriculum development initiative. Applications are due February 12.

Click here to register.

Discussion

Exploring Privacy Apps

January 28 1:00–2:00 PM

(InfoSec 101) - In celebration of International Data Privacy Day (January 28), the Information Security Office will discuss several software applications developed with privacy in mind.  Some applications explored include DuckDuckGo privacy services, Tor browser, Mailvelope encrypted email, and Signal messaging (encrypted instant messenger, voice, and video calling). Join us to learn about both the advantages and disadvantages of these services.

Speakers: David Sherry, Tara Schaufler

 

About InfoSec class levels:

InfoSec 100-level classes: Classes with no prerequisites and typically define basic concepts or terminology.

InfoSec 200-level classes: Classes may sometimes have prerequisites and typically define intermediate-level concepts or terminology.

Sign up here (make sure to select the correct webinar and then click “enroll” on the top right of the window).

Book Talk

Book Talk: "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing"

February 9 4:30–5:30 PM

Princeton alumna and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, Sarah Brayne, will speak about her new book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.

Register here.

Projects

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.

Data Beyond Vision

experimental physical representations of humanities data

Princeton Geniza Project

Accessing the medieval Islamic world through digital tools

About

Annual Report

History of the CDH