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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Virtual Victorians: Using 21st-century technology to evaluate 19th-century texts
24 October 2018
Meredith Martin, associate professor of English and director of CDH co-taught “Virtual Victorians” with English graduate student and CDH graduate fellow Miranda Marraccini. The course explored the explosive print culture of the 19th century through a digital lens. Find out more about the course and the advantages of using digitized texts.Who Counts? A Symposium on Intersectional Data
18 October 2018
The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is pleased to welcome Professor Lauren Klein from Georgia Tech who will be speaking on “Who Counts? A Symposium on Intersectional Data,” on Monday, Oct. 22, at the CDH in Firestone Library, B Floor.Come explore the Personal Library of Jacques Derrida!
11 October 2018
The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton is delighted to announce the launch of "Derrida’s Margins: Inside the Personal Library of Jacques Derrida".
What's new in the EU?
8 October 2018
From Oct. 2-4, members of the CDH attended the DARIAH beyond Europe conference at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to compare notes with DARIAH-EU members on DH methods. This post is a very brief summary of what we heard.Will you be one of our Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities?
3 October 2018
The CDH invites applications to be part of our inaugural cohort of Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities. Graduate Fellowships are an ideal way to take a deep dive into an aspect of Digital Humanities that you've been curious about, but not had a chance to focus on. Graduate Fellows explore a field of DH research or professional development during their term. No previous experience with DH or specific technical skills are required.
Call for Proposals: Latin American Seed Grants
1 October 2018
The Center for Digital Humanities invites Princeton faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to apply for grants to support individual or collaborative digital projects that engage with the Latin American cultural record. Grants are intended to support exploratory thinking and early-stage development of digital projects. Funds may be used for needs such as hiring assistants for data gathering, encoding, scanning, or preliminary technical advising or development. The grant can also support meetings within departments to survey current projects and brainstorm graduate student and faculty initiatives.Slavic DH Group Co-Hosts Mapping Workshop in Germany
27 September 2018
Princeton’s Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group had a busy summer.
Call for Proposals: Fall 2018 Seed Grants
25 September 2018
With the launch of the Fall 2018 term, the CDH is pleased to share our call for proposals for Seed Grants to support individual or collaborative research projects. The Fall 2018 Seed Grant deadline is: October 15, 2018.
Weird Data: A Spring 2019 Freshman Seminar
18 September 2018
The CDH is delighted to announce our first Freshman Seminar!
CDH Kicks off Year of Data
12 September 2018
The Center for Digital Humanities is excited to launch Year of Data, a campus-wide initiative that will take place during the 2018-2019 academic year. We will host and co-host over twenty events to encourage critical thinking about how data shapes our research, teaching, and daily lives. Together we’ll address questions such as:
CDH Reading Group: Collections as Data
12 September 2018
Did you know that Princeton's rich library collections can be used for innovative, data-driven research? Do you want to learn how digital libraries, catalogs, exhibits, and finding aids can be used for text mining, data visualization, mapping, image analysis, audio analysis, and network analysis?
CDH is hiring a Graphic Designer!
23 July 2018
The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Princeton University seeks a Graphic Designer for a short-term project. The scope of this project is to create compelling publicity and promotional material for the Center’s “Year of Data,” a campus-wide initiative that will take place during the 2018-2019 academic year. During Year of Data, the CDH will host approximately 20 events, speakers, workshops, and discussions to encourage critical and immersive thinking about how data shapes our research, teaching, and daily lives.