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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.

Reimaging Princeton’s Historical African American Community Through Virtual Reality

23 November 2024

Being at Home in Princeton, co-sponsored by the CDH, is on view at the James S. Hall Memorial Gallery in Butler College until December 3, 2024.

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AI and Ways of Seeing: Q&A with Lauren Tilton

12 November 2024

In a Q&A after her recent lecture for the CDH, Lauren Tilton remarks on the humanities' role in shaping AI, her work with the Distant Viewing Lab, and her concerns and hopes for AI.

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CDH Faculty Director discusses the evolution of the humanities engagement with data at the DARIAH annual conference

8 October 2024

Meredith Martin, CDH Faculty Director, reflects on her keynote at the 2024 DARIAH Annual Event.
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Senior Thesis Prize winner developed a Python program to explore “secretive sentence structure” in Gothic fiction

2 October 2024

CDH Senior Thesis Prize winner Teddy Leane ’24 (English) told us about his project.

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Act I for Steven Feng ’27 🎭

6 August 2024

Steven explored Greek tragedy at the DH for Hellenic Studies Institute.

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Project Management and the Rise of RSEs

6 August 2024

At this year’s DARIAH Annual Event, CDH Project Manager Mary Naydan and Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa discussed the importance of project charters in an era of RSEs.

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Early-Career Hellenic Studies Scholars Learn Digital Humanities Tools at the Princeton Athens Center

21 July 2024

This summer, Princeton graduate student Megan Coates, Art & Archaeology, learned the latest technological tools to help advance her dissertation research in manuscript studies.

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Senior Thesis Spotlight: Fernando Avilés-García used artificial intelligence to analyze Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’

13 July 2024

Fernando Avilés-García tackled 700-year-old literature with an innovative approach: building an artificially intelligent tool to analyze the language of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

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First recipients of DH Graduate Certificate reflect on research, post-Princeton careers

5 June 2024

Gian Duri Rominger *23 (East Asian Studies) and Gyoonho Kong *24 (German) are the first recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.

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Article Cluster Illuminates “The World of Shakespeare and Company”

29 May 2024

Articles use data from the Shakespeare and Company Project to glean new insights on the celebrated bookshop and lending library, reading communities, and the modernist movement.

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Private Signals, Opaque Models, and an AI-Surveillance World

6 May 2024

Reflections on the first LLM forum and a growing discomfort with content privacy in an AI-hungry world of monetized surveillance

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Exhibition imagines, engages with “our digital future”

21 February 2024

Last week’s panel discussion, “Scenario for a Past Future and Avant-Garde Immersive Worlds,” explored the exhibition currently on view at the Lewis Center’s Hurley Gallery.

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