Fall 2019 Events

Workshop

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

September 3 - 6
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.
Guest Lecture

Speaking Figuratively: What Does Text Have To Do With Image?

Glen Worthey
September 3 3:30–5:00 PM
What is the relationship between “image” and “text”?  Are they utterly distinct data types, or are they rather ranges on a continuum?  Or are they the same, but only differently-scaled? This talk will give a digital humanities spin on examples from the Russian baroque to Pushkin to early Soviet picture books; from OCR to AI.
Guest Lecture

Thinking Infrastructurally: What's In It for Humanities Scholars?

Toma Tasovac
September 5 3:30–5:00 PM
How can humanities scholars think infrastructurally? How would that effect the way we conduct and disseminate our research? Can we build research infrastructures without subscribing to the insidious master narratives of efficiency and progress? This talk will also touch upon the value of infrastructural thinking for the Slavic Studies field, citing examples from the Raskovnik Serbian dictionary platform and the Prepis.org transcription project.
Reception

Fall 2019 Open House

September 23 3:30–5:00 PM
Please join us to celebrate the start of the year and to learn about CDH projects, meet our staff, and enjoy food and beverages.
Reception

Ada Lovelace Day Graduate Mixer

October 10 4:00–6:00 PM
The Center for Digital Humanities, in partnership with the Graduate Student Government, invites you to a celebration of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. Come meet fellow students with an interest in DH and learn more about the CDH’s opportunities for grads. No previous experience, tech skills, or passwords required. Drinks and dinner from Nomad will be provided!
Deadline

Graduate Fellowship Deadline

October 14 11:00–11:00 PM
Graduate students are invited to apply for semester-long CDH Graduate Fellowships in Digital Humanities to explore a field of DH research or professional development. 
Guest Lecture

The Auctioneer’s Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market

Matthew Lincoln
October 17 3:30–4:30 PM
What makes a painting “British”? What makes an artist an “Old Master”? We know that these are highly constructed categories, their definitions less a function historical fact than of rhetoric and the position of the one doing the describing. As part of a larger project in the history of the art market, we combine close and distant reading techniques to examine a large corpus of auction catalogs. What simulation and statistical modeling gets right when trying to chart these categories, as well as what it gets wrong, give crucial insights into the historicity of these modern categories, and demonstrates how the history of the art market can be about much more than price alone.
Workshop

Critical Art Historical Data Visualization

Matthew Lincoln
October 18 9:00–11:00 AM
This workshop will introduce the use of mapping, network analysis, and other data visualization methods in art historical research. Using provenance data from the Getty Research Institute, attendees will learn how to use the freely-available Palladio platform, and will also learn how to critically assess the decisions behind a dataset generated from archival source.
Reading Group

Building Communities of Data-Curious Humanists: The Test Case of Slavic DH at Princeton (and Beyond)

Natalia Ermolaev
Thomas Keenan
October 30 11:00–12:20 PM
How can PUL’s collections and staff expertise be leveraged to advance digital scholarship in the humanities? This session will discuss how Princeton’s Slavic Collections and the Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group have helped make Princeton one of the leaders in DH for Slavic Studies and a crucial node in a developing international network of DH scholarship focused on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Topics covered will include: grants & funding, working with students, international partnerships, professional/scholarly organizations, conferences & events. This session will provide ideas for engaging audiences through digital collections and building new partnerships with faculty and students. 
Deadline

Seed Grant Deadline

October 31 11:00–11:00 PM
Faculty, staff and post-doctoral fellows are invited to apply for CDH Seed Grants to support individual or collaborative research projects.
Reading Group

Managing Research Data in the Humanities

Wind Cowles
Grant Wythoff
November 20 12:00–1:20 PM
Data in the humanities can take many forms -  Grant and Wind will explore the joys and challenges of working with humanities research data, leading a discussion of how to approach data management in the humanities, using specific examples of humanities datasets.
Guest Lecture

The Greek Revolution of 1821 online: A Digital Archive and a Research Project

Ada Dialla
December 5 12:00–1:15 PM
Presented by Ada Dialla, Associate Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens) and Visiting Fellow in the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton, Fall 2019.