BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint Graduate Certificate Colloquium: Data and Computation DTSTART:20260424T170000Z DTEND:20260424T211500Z UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/04/joint-grad-colloquium/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n We are pleased to announce the joint Graduate Certifica te Colloquium with the Princeton Institute for Computational Science &am p\; Engineering (PICSciE)\, the Center for Statistics &\; Machine Lear ning (CSML)\, and the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH).The joint colloq uium is an opportunity for graduate students completing certificates in Co mputational Science &\; Engineering\, Statistics &\; Machine Learnin g and Digital Humanities to give a presentation on their dissertation rese arch focusing on its computational or statistics and machine learning com ponents. The presentations are designed to be accessible to the broader U niversity community with an interest in any domain touched by data\, comp utation or statistics and machine learning. Each research presentation wi ll be approximately 20 minutes including time for questions from the audie nce.\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n \n Grad Certificate Colloquium Poster &\; Details\n \n (PDF\, 241.6 KB)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n Abstracts by CDH certificate grads\n \n\n \n\n\n \n Laura NelsonDepartment of HistoryWhat happens after we “name names ” in large-scale historical datasets? This presentation draws on Seen/Un seen\, a digital humanities project that reconstructs the lives of more th an 800 enslaved people in antebellum Georgia using archival records from t he Howell Cobb Family Papers. Building interconnected datasets of individu als and primary sources\, the project preserves fragmentary evidence while deliberately maintaining uncertainty rather than imposing false coherence . Yet even at this scale\, enslaved people often remain legible only as da ta—rows\, fields\, and attributes. I show how Seen/Unseenpairs database construction with collaborative biographical interpretation\, in which nar rative reorganizes data into historically situated lives. Tracing this mov ement from archive to dataset to biography\, the project highlights the in terpretive decisions embedded in data modeling and suggests how digital me thods can support\, but not replace\, humanistic analysis.Sharifa LookmanD epartment of Art &\; ArchaeologyIn 1921\, the German art historian Wilh elm von Bode denounced the use of x-radiography in art historical studies as “Alles Mumpitz” (all nonsense). In doing so\, he denied sculpture ’s masked materiality and criticized the use of assisted technologies to see inside bronze\, an advent at the time that could problematize importa nt attributions. More than just skepticism over the integration of scienti fic study\, a budding anxiety had developed between the value of sculpture and the truth behind the techniques and people that made it. The incorpor ation of 3D-imaging technologies (photogrammetry and 3D-scanning) in art a nd archaeological studies suggests a similar technological reckoning\, and yet where radiography moved beneath sculpture’s skin to make seeable th e unseen\, 3D-imaging as a medium is defined by its very preoccupation wit h surface and in capturing only that which can be witnessed. Utilizing the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century bronze statuette as its cen tral case\, this paper explores both the challenges and potential of 3D-im aging as a tool with which to recuperate intermediary techniques in Renais sance bronze casting and to recognize the often-invisible figure of the te chnician and copyist. Framing sculptural technique as both subject and heu ristic and surface as theoretically elastic\, this paper also applies scan ned surfaces and their digital facsimiles to historical reconstructions\, moving the scanner to the foundry\, and from bronze to pixel and back agai n.April GilbertDepartment of Comparative LiteratureThe International Socie ty for the Study of Narrative (ISSN\; https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/ ) began in 1984 as the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Its mission is "\;dedicated to the advancement of research about narrative s and narrative theory."\;  It has held an International Conference o n Narrative annually since 1986. Using various Python libraries and other text analysis tools\, I explore the course of narratives and narrative the ory through a corpus of over three decades of ISSN conference programs fro m 1986 to 2025 (incomplete). What concepts in narratology have appeared an d waned over the years? Have the terms for certain concepts changed over t ime? Which authors/works/periods/genres appear are mentioned in presentati on titles over time\, and are these influenced by trends or events? I hope to show how an excursion into conference data can produce narrative repre sentations of the history of theoretical practice within the context of on e academic society.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Past events\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Annual CDH Graduate Colloquium\, 2025\n \n \n \n\ n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Feb 19 2025 1:00PM–3:00PM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Kate Clairmont\n \n Chelsea Clark\n \n Rachel Richman\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \ n \n \n Colloquium\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/0 4/joint-grad-colloquium/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR