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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
CDH's Hackathon Connects Computational Researchers From Across Campus
30 January 2019
The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) recently hosted an all-day Hackathon where developers across campus joined together in teams to explore library collection data with a digital humanities lens by applying computationally driven methods to analyze the archives in creative ways. Participants included more than 20 developers from CDH, the Princeton University Library (PUL) and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering/Research Computing (PICSciE/RC).
Lessons learned from building “Derrida’s Margins”
14 December 2018
Reflection and retrospection, taking time to learn from successes and failures: some lessons learned from building "Derrida's Margins" that we're carrying forward so that we can do better next time.
Safiya Noble Speaks on "Algorithms of Oppression" at Year of Data Keynote
13 December 2018
In 2011, Safiya Umoja Noble was searching online for a gift for her niece, and Googled “black girls.” She was shocked by the results.
CDH Latin American Digital Humanities Seed Grants Awarded
11 December 2018
Congratulations to the recipients of 2018 Latin American Seed Grants! Awards were given to faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from Latin American Studies, History, and the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities to support a variety of digital humanities endeavors.CDH Awards Fall 2018 Seed Grants
11 December 2018
Congratulations to the recipients of Fall 2018 CDH Seed Grants! This semester, awards were given to faculty, graduate students, and staff from English, History, Sociology, the Office of Population Research, and the Princeton University Library to support a variety of endeavors related to digitally-inflected scholarship and inquiry.
Digitally-inflected classes at Princeton in Spring 2019
11 December 2018
Undergrads - are you looking for courses to take in the Spring?CDH to host Safiya Noble, Author of Algorithms of Oppression for Year of Data Keynote Lecture
29 November 2018
“Algorithms of Oppression is a wakeup call to bring awareness to the biases of the internet, and should motivate all concerned people to ask why those biases exist, and who they benefit."
Introducing the JUST DATA lab
28 November 2018
As we become more attentive to the stories we tell with and about data, how might it change our approach to research, teaching and advocacy?
Announcing 2019-2020 CDH Grants
15 November 2018
The CDH is pleased to announce our 2019-2020 Research Partnership and Dataset Curation grants, designed to promote innovation in digital humanities scholarship and critical engagement with humanities data.Designing for Jacques Derrida
30 October 2018
In Derrida’s Margins, design is not an empty vessel. Instead, I’m hoping to bring design into the foreground as an active form of representation. This project approaches design with characteristics of Derrida's own reading practice and that of the philosophy of deconstruction.
Meet our New Digital Humanities User Experience Designer, Gissoo Doroudian
29 October 2018
Hi! I’m Gissoo, the new User Experience Designer at the CDH, with a curious mind and soul.CDH Symposium on Intersectional Data: “Who Counts” in our Machine-Readable World
26 October 2018
Lauren Klein and Mimi Onuoha speak about data, bias and power at the CDH. Photo by Shelley Szwast The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) continued its Year of Data – a campus-wide initiative to encourage critical thinking around how data shape our lives - with a lively discussion at “Who Counts? A Symposium on Intersectional Data” on Monday October 22, 2018.