Fall 2016 Events

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!

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!

Text encoding is a kind of translation: it involves rendering transcriptions of documents (books, newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, engravings, and so on) into machine-readable form, so that they may be processed by computers in a variety of ways: displayed on screens, of course, but also queried for abstract content like people, places, dates and things. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a set of encoding guidelines developed by the humanities scholars, is a key technology in digital humanities, widely used by libraries, museums, publishers and individual scholars.

All members in the Princeton community are invited to participate in the Critical Game Studies (CGS) Lab, a working group that meets monthly to critically engage with digital games. The group aims to look at digital games as texts that have been shaped and informed as social, educational, and cultural objects by the contemporary moment, with the goal of producing a digital game of our own. Texts will frequently converge on issues of sexuality, class, race, gender, disability, state violence and more.

Join us for a guest lecture from G. Salim Mohammed, of Stanford's Rumsey Map Center. 

Want to find hidden connections in your sources? Make a beautiful network graph to show your findings? Learn what questions to ask of a graph?

Ever wondered what data visualization is, or wanted to know what it can do? Come along to the CDH for a workshop with postdoctoral fellow Claude Willan 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!

"Reconstructing Race: Languages of Identity in American Fiction, 1789-1964"

Join Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford) for a workshop on the visualization of semantic difference metonymized as virtual space. Starting with PCA clusters and networks and winding up on the topologies used in the project (distributed as an R package). 

An introduction to the Unix Command-Line. Ever wondered how to speed up day to day tasks on your Mac, Linux PC, or research computing hardware? Have you heard of this ‘bash’ thing but feel intimidated, or ever had a reference to opening a terminal? Want to run Vagrant or Docker for development purposes but feel uncomfortable operating them on the command-line?

Do you have a research idea or a collection of sources that would make a great digital humanities project? Do you want to build a digital tool that will foster humanistic inquiry? This workshop will cover the basics of what it takes to design and implement a DH project, and how to successfully pitch your project idea for a CDH grant.

Join our first design workshop, prepared for non-designers with emphasis on humanistic knowledge, to gain an overview of design. We’ll start with a brief talk about different modalities of design, and how design may be involved in the process of intellectual inquiry. With introductions to visual language, semiotics, and basic typography, we’ll proceed to discussion on traditional quantitative methods versus qualitative approach, and what aspects in visualization will affect graphical knowledge production.