Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts

This four-day workshop organized by the Princeton Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group will combine instructional sessions, keynote lectures, works-in-progress presentations by participants, and time for individual research. The event will also include a trip to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, home of the renowned Russian & Soviet Nonconformist Art collection.

Keynote talks will be by Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries and Toma Tasovac, Director of DARIAH-EU and Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities.

Hands-on instructional sessions will be led by Quinn Dombrowski (Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University) and Andy Janco (Digital Scholarship Librarian, Haverford College). Topics include: structured metadata design, platforms and tools for digital exhibits ( OmekaS, Wax, IIIF ), and computer vision.

For schedule and more information, see: https://slavic-dh.princeton.edu/2019-summer-workshop/

This workshop is co-organized by digital humanists at Princeton University, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Stanford University and Haverford College. Event sponsors include the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Slavic Department, the Center for Digital Humanities, the Humanities Council, the Princeton University Library, the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES), the Department of Art History, the Center for Collaborative History, and European Cultural Studies.