Events

CDH lectures, conferences, workshops, and courses at Princeton and beyond!

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The World of the Cairo Geniza

Sep 2–Dec 2
Marina Rustow
Course
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The Cairo Geniza and the Material Cultures of the Indian Ocean World

Sep 2–Dec 2
Elizabeth A. Lambourn
Marina Rustow
Course
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Poetics: Poetry's Data

Sep 2–Dec 2
Meredith Martin
Course
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Digital Humanities for Historians and Other Scholars

Sep 2–Dec 2
Tobias Scheunchen
Course
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Hacking Chinese Studies: An Introduction to Text Mining for Chinese Literature and Culture

Sep 3–Dec 3
Paul Vierthaler
Course
3-affiliate 2

Digitally Detecting the Strange: Crime, Ghosts, and Other Odd Things in Late Imperial China

Sep 3–Dec 3
Paul Vierthaler
Course
4-students 2

Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages

Nov 20 4:30PM–6:00PM
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
African Languages in the Age of AI
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Project Management 101

Jan 16 2026 10:00AM–3:00PM
Mary Naydan
Workshop
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Past events

Data and Culture

Jan 27–Apr 23
Matthew L. Jones
Meredith Martin
Course
2-exec

Speculative Fiction: from Pygmalion to ChatGPT

Jan 28–Apr 22
Mary Naydan
Course
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Text and Technology: from Handwritten to Digital Formats

Jan 28–Apr 22
Christine Roughan
Course
4-students

Data and the Humanities

Jan 28–Apr 22
Jeri Wieringa (duplicate)
Course
3-affiliate 2

Douglass Day: Transcribe-a-thon

Feb 14 12:00PM–3:00PM
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Douglass Day: Special Collections Showcase

Feb 14 2:00PM–4:00PM
Douglass Day Event
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Annual CDH Graduate Colloquium, 2025

Feb 19 1:00PM–3:00PM
Kate Clairmont
Chelsea Clark
Rachel Richman
Colloquium
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Envision 2025

Feb 22 10:00AM–6:00PM
Happy Buzaaba
Conference
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Matthew Kirschenbaum: The US of AI

Feb 25 5:00PM–6:30PM
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Meredith Martin
Lecture
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Ted Chiang: The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art

Mar 18 5:00PM–6:15PM
Ted Chiang
Lecture
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Nnedi Okorafor: The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI – A Conversation on Death of the Author

Apr 3 5:00PM–6:15PM
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Nnedi Okorafor
Lecture
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AI Lab Listening Session & Lunch

Apr 23 11:30AM–12:30PM
Information Session
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The Ends of Prosody

May 14–17
Conference
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