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Events

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

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Modeling Culture Seminar: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

Sep 29–May 18
Seminar
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ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

Apr 9–11
Happy Buzaaba
Conference
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Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

Apr 14 4:30PM–6:00PM
Sonja Drimmer
Modeling Culture Talk
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Joint Graduate Certificate Colloquium: Data and Computation

Apr 24 1:00PM–5:15PM
April Gilbert
Sharifa Lookman
Laura Nelson
Graduate Students
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ATRIUM Summer School - From Maps to Data and Data to Maps: Exploring Spatial Histories

Jun 29–Jul 2
Workshop
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2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D

Jul 6–10
Workshop
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Past events

The Cairo Geniza and the Material Cultures of the Indian Ocean World

Sep 2–Dec 2 2025
Elizabeth A. Lambourn
Marina Rustow
Course
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The World of the Cairo Geniza

Sep 2–Dec 2 2025
Marina Rustow
Course
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Poetics: Poetry's Data

Sep 2–Dec 2 2025
Meredith Martin
Course
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Digital Humanities for Historians and Other Scholars

Sep 2–Dec 2 2025
Tobias Scheunchen
Course
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Hacking Chinese Studies: An Introduction to Text Mining for Chinese Literature and Culture

Sep 3–Dec 3 2025
Paul Vierthaler
Course
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Digitally Detecting the Strange: Crime, Ghosts, and Other Odd Things in Late Imperial China

Sep 3–Dec 3 2025
Paul Vierthaler
Course
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Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages

Sep 4–Dec 4 2025
Happy Buzaaba
Course
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Modeling Culture Seminar: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

Sep 29–May 18
Seminar
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Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

Sep 29 2025 4:30PM–6:00PM
John Ladd
Modeling Culture Talk
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Digital Humanities Beyond the PhD: Grad Alumni Perspectives

Oct 10 2025 4:15PM–6:00PM
Panel
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The Shape of Ideas: A New History of Failure in the Long Eighteenth Century

Oct 20 2025 4:30PM–6:00PM
Mark Algee-Hewitt
Modeling Culture Talk
Book cover with gradient background titled The Shape of Ideas: A New History of Failure in the Long Eighteenth Century by Mark Algee-Hewitt.

Digital A&A: Digital Resources for Art and Archaeology

Oct 21 2025 4:30PM–5:30PM
Working Group
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Graduate Certificate Information Session

Oct 22 2025 11:00AM–12:00PM
Graduate Students
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DARIAH Beyond Europe: Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University

Oct 30 2025 9:00AM–10:30AM
Natalia Ermolaev
Bryan Winston
Talk
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David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages

Oct 30 2025 4:30PM–6:00PM
Happy Buzaaba
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
African Languages in the Age of AI
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Digital A&A: Managing Bibliography and Images

Nov 10 2025 12:00PM–1:00PM
Working Group
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Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AI

Nov 17 2025 4:30PM–6:00PM
Melanie Walsh
Modeling Culture Talk
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Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture

Nov 18 2025 4:30PM–6:00PM
Anna Preus
Modeling Culture Talk
Book cover with a soft gradient background titled Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th Century British Book Culture by Anna Preus.

Digital A&A: Data Basics

Dec 9 2025 4:30PM–5:30PM
Working Group
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