Spring 2021 Events

The “Shakespeare and Company Project” conducts a discussion of Joyce's first novel as part of a series of explorations of titles frequently borrowed from Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

Join us for a virtual information session on a new opportunity for Princeton Ph.D. students: the Humanities Data Teaching Fellowship. Fellows will bring their humanities subject expertise to a pathbreaking data sciences curriculum development initiative. Applications are due February 12.

(InfoSec 101) - In celebration of International Data Privacy Day (January 28), the Information Security Office will discuss several software applications developed with privacy in mind.  Some applications explored include DuckDuckGo privacy services, Tor browser, Mailvelope encrypted email, and Signal messaging (encrypted instant messenger, voice, and video calling). Join us to learn about both the advantages and disadvantages of these services.

Introduction to Digital Humanities - HUM 346/ENG 256

Literature, Data, and Interpretation - ENG 583/HUM 587

Princeton alumna and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, Sarah Brayne, will speak about her new book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.

This event will feature presentations by undergraduate Princeton University students on their collaborative, virtual exhibition entitled “Abolition: Then and Now.”

At this panel, students and teachers from Princeton Public Schools and Princeton University undergraduates will discuss their experiences advocating for recent renaming.

Join the South Asia Digital Humanities Working Group for a conversation with Prof. Andrew Ollett (University of Chicago). Prof. Ollett will discuss the advantages and challenges of using open-source tools for philology with particular reference to his current project, a translation of a Prakrit work on poetics. The conversation will be moderated by Prof. Nataliya Yanchevskaya, Sanskrit lecturer in PIIRS.

Are you working with spreadsheets, images or text files in your research? Are you interested in turning them into a dataset, or enhancing an existing one? Come learn more about applying for a CDH Data Fellowship in an information session with members of the CDH staff!

When we share our research, either in talks or papers, we typically focus on the “why” of the research: Why did we study this? Why should everyone care about the results? This usually comes at the expense of the “how,” which often gets tucked quietly into the inside of our presentations: How did we do our research? How did we overcome challenges in the process? How does how we handle and structure our data impact our work? Research Inside-Out is an event that aims to turn this conversation inside-out, with speakers from different disciplines presenting a research project that provides a window into the process, followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience.

The CDH Data Fellows program grew out of, and is replacing, our Dataset Curation Grants. CDH Data Fellows become familiar with the analytical and technological practices of working with humanities data. Fellows will learn to situate their work in scholarly discussions about the intersection of computational and humanistic research questions, particularly as they relate to the production, organization, and preservation of knowledge.

The Center for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with GradFUTURES, is excited to launch How We Work, a new event series centered around the theme of academic work. What does it mean to work in “alternative” academia? What does it mean to pursue “traditional” academic jobs in today’s changing educational landscape? Breaking down the barrier between traditional and alternative, the series invites CDH staffers and postdocs to have open and honest conversations about their jobs, how they got there, and how they get them done.

Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities explore a field of DH research or professional development during their term. No previous experience with DH or specific technical skills are required. Fellows are expected to be active participants in the life of the CDH by attending events and workshops and reaching out to CDH staff and fellow students as they explore their DH topic. Fellows attend monthly cohort meetings that provide the opportunity to workshop ideas with peers.

Faculty, staff and post-doctoral fellows are invited to apply for CDH Seed Grants to support individual or collaborative research projects.

RBWG (Rare Book Working Group) & CDH Spring Speaker Series: Kinohi Nishikawa & Timothy Thompson

Privacy is one of the core values of librarianship, but how do we protect this value when surveillance is the business model of the internet? Library Freedom Project is an organization devoted to training librarians to understand digital privacy issues and use their skills as trusted information stewards to teach communities how to protect themselves from surveillance threats.

This illustrated presentation will describe the origins and development of the Murkutu platform with a focus on the Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe’s presentation of the Spalding-Allen Collection. 

ESL (English as a Second Language) is a new play for Zoom that tells the story of seven people from different cultural backgrounds taking an online language class together. When a homework assignment gets personal, the class erupts into a polyphonous debate on the limits of language and storytelling when it comes to conveying individual experiences of migration. Using the naturalistic setting of the online classroom, and drawing from its cast members' personal experiences, the play asks: How do we learn about things? How do we teach people history?

The Center for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with GradFUTURES, is excited to launch How We Work, a new event series centered around the theme of academic work. What does it mean to work in “alternative” academia? What does it mean to pursue “traditional” academic jobs in today’s changing educational landscape? Breaking down the barrier between traditional and alternative, the series invites CDH staffers and postdocs to have open and honest conversations about their jobs, how they got there, and how they get them done.