Fall 2017 Events

Workshop

As Luck Would Have It: Discovery in the Digital Age

Deb Verhoeven
September 19 11:00–12:20 PM
Discovery and innovation in humanities research has traditionally rested on researchers making serendipitous connections by meandering along knowledge trails and proposing unexpected conceptual links. Emerging digital research tools are producing even richer opportunities for connectivity in the humanities but are often designed for efficient information retrieval rather than serendipitous discovery. Interrogation techniques based on networked information models or collection visualisations as well as more general discovery tools offer promising new avenues for discovery but don't always align with approaches to the production of knowledge used by humanities scholars. This workshop will engage participants in a computational platform specifically designed to co-create a new and imaginatively revised "ordering" of the world.
Reception

Fall Open House

September 25 3:30–5:00 PM
Welcome back! Join us to catch up with old and new friends in the Princeton digital humanities community. Meet the center’s staff and our new postdoctoral and graduate fellows, and learn more about our new research projects, and check out our shiny new space on B Floor in Firestone Library. We are looking forward to seeing you! Light refreshments will be served.
Reading Group

Reading Group

Jim Casey
September 27 11:00–12:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library. 
Workshop

Intro to DH

Jean Bauer
October 2 3:30–5:00 PM
Have you heard about Digital Humanities but don’t really know what it is? Do you think your research could benefit from digital methods and tools but aren’t sure what to do next? Then this workshop is for you!
Workshop

Data Visualization

Jean Bauer
October 9 3:30–5:00 PM
Ever wondered what data visualization is, or wanted to know what it can do? Come along to the CDH for a workshop with Associate Director Jean Bauer on two easy-to-learn, easy-to-use visualization platforms. Together we’ll look at Palladio and RAW, two online platforms that require no installation, and learn how to map movements, make network graphs, flow charts, scatter plots and more. Along the way we’ll learn about faceting and filtering your data so you can have maximum control over what information you display and how. No prior knowledge or experience required; come along and bring your laptop if possible!
Reading Group

Reading Group: #BlkTwitterstorians: Building a Digital Community

Jim Casey
October 11 11:00–12:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library. 
Workshop

Puerto Rico Mapathon

Nora Benedict
Jim Casey
October 18 11:00–3:00 PM
Puerto Rico Disaster Relief | Princeton Mapathon Oct 18 – Open House 12-4 PM
Panel

Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage Communities: The Prozhito Project in Perspective

Jim Casey
Nataliya Tyshkevich
October 19 3:00–4:00 PM
Join us for a conversation about crowdsourcing, public humanities, and organizing volunteer communities in various national and cultural contexts.
Panel

Open Access Panel and Viewing of Hamilton's America

Jean Bauer
October 23 3:30–5:00 PM
Open Access in "The Room Where It Happens": Teaching, Research, and Publishing on Lin Manuel Miranda's hit musical HamiltonJoin us for a viewing of the PBS documentary, Hamilton's America, proceeded by a panel of local experts, discussing the musical's impact on teaching and research in history, English, and theater, including how to use copyright materials for Open Access scholarship. Popcorn and soda will be served.
Reading Group

Reading Group: Open Access & Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Jim Casey
October 25 11:00–12:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library. 
Reading Group

Reading Group: Monuments & Memory

Jim Casey
November 8 12:00–1:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library. 
Workshop

Design Thinking

Xinyi Li
November 8 4:30–6:00 PM
You may have gotten a taste of the buzz term design thinking, and left feeling intrigued, skeptical, or confused. Join this workshop to learn about the origin story of design thinking, and demystify the term. We’ll view the rise of the Design Thinking critically, and put it into the context of human-centered design, and social design, and design research. We’ll learn some frameworks and methods with cases studies, practice in groups with a set of tools, and think about how could design thinking relate to research and practice in other fields.
Guest Lecture

Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy

Mark Depauw
November 14 4:30–6:00 PM
“To use tools well, we must, in some real sense, understand them better than the tool maker. The best kind of tools are therefore the ones that we make ourselves.” Dennis Tenen, Debates in DH 2016
Workshop

Geo-referencing Literary Texts and Historic Maps: A Pelagios and Pleiades Workshop

Sarah Bond
November 15 12:00–1:20 PM
Almost every text we work with—historical or otherwise—has a spatial component to it. Whether it is mapping Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or exploring the margins of the Mediterranean in Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, geography is an important part of many texts. This workshop explores the textual annotation tool within Pelagios.org’s Recogito feature, which allows professors, students, and the public to annotate, tag, and visualize locations from texts automatically. This workshop will teach you how to upload texts and easily create interactive maps to allow deeper engagement with texts. It will also introduce attendees to the basic tenets of linked open data as applied within the realm of HGIS.
Guest Lecture

Digital Humanities and Social Justice

Sarah Bond
November 15 4:30–6:00 PM
Although people have been caught up in the correct definition of the term "digital humanities," we should perhaps be more concerned with the how of DH rather than the what. This talk focuses on how digital approaches—3D modeling, augmented reality, GIS, and textual analysis, to name just a few—have begun to reveal evidence for social inequality, misogyny, racism, and marginalization. This talk highlights just a few local and international DH projects working to these ends; from redlining maps to the statistical analysis of the gender pay gap at public universities. Clearly, it is not about who is and is not a digital humanist that is the real issue in 2017. All humanists—digital or otherwise—have the power to band together in order to bring about transparency and hasten social awareness. If democracy truly "dies in darkness," then perhaps DH can contribute some flashlights to the cause.
Reading Group

Reading Group: Crowdsourcing

Jim Casey
November 29 12:00–1:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library. 
Reading Group

Reading Group: Social Justice & Memory

Jim Casey
December 13 12:00–1:20 PM
This year, the CDH will convene a reading group to explore the public digital humanities. The group is open to all levels of expertise and particularly welcomes those who might be new to the CDH in Firestone Library.