Fall 2019 Events
Guest Lecture
Thinking Infrastructurally: What's In It for Humanities Scholars?
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
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!
Guest Lecture
The Auctioneer’s Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market
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
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
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.