The Price Lab

Next Monday, March 2, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read about all Dream Lab courses and register (while early bird pricing is still on!) here 🌩️

NEW to Dream Lab ⚡️This summer, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social will teach CRITICAL MAKING: ENCHANTED THINGS 🪄

Attn Philly locals: Join us next Tuesday for an informal #DH happy hour! Any student, practitioner, instructor, or fan of digital humanities is welcome. We will meet up at Victory Brewing Company in Center City around 5pm on 2/24 🍻

Tomorrow!

TOMORROW 2/16: Our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

And we're still going!

Happy birthday Frederick Douglass!

Still LOTS to transcribe!

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Douglass Day 2026 is under way at Penn! Join us in RDDSx on the first floor of Van Pelt. We will be here until 3pm—we have coffee and snacks to fuel your transcriptions ☕️🍊 (not to mention lots of these stickers!)

@douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social

TOMORROW!

This event is co-sponsored by The Price Lab and the English Department's ResVic Working Group. Full details here: www.english.upenn.edu/events/2026/...

Thursday, Feb. 19 @ 5pm in FBH 135: Prof. Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers) will deliver a talk about how teachers and students in writing-based humanities disciplines can engage generative AI technologies from a standpoint of action—without unnecessary technodeterminism, catastrophism, or passivity.

Find the full calendar of events (with registration links) here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/rdds

And on Monday, Feb. 23, 10am-11am, a hybrid session about digital storytelling tools & techniques 🧑‍💻

Also on Tuesday, Feb. 19 (12pm-1:30pm), an interactive session about AI use in the classroom 🤖

Join either virtually (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 4pm-5pm) or in-person (Thursday, Feb. 19, 4pm-5pm) for an introduction to QGIS, a geographic information system 🗺️

Douglass Day, Friday Feb. 13, 12pm-3pm - an in-person transcribe-a-thon event ⌨️

💘 FEBRUARY EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 💘

Join the Price Lab’s Graduate Student Working Group at these RDDS events this month!

🔔 Next week 🔔 Join us for Douglass Day in the Research Data & Digital Scholarship Exchange—we'll help to transcribe documents from the Colored Conventions Project, making these records accessible for future research.

Tomorrow! Register now: libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/16233439

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

DREAM LAB 2026 - May 26-29 at @upenn.edu

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more & register now (at early bird pricing!):

Our Critical Approaches to A.I. working group will reconvene next Monday, 2/2 in Williams Hall and on Zoom ( link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ). Please join us! 🦾

Register here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/16233439

Next week: part of the Digital Humanist's Helpdesk series, this hour-long workshop with @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social introduces the #DHMakes movement, combining digital humanities with arts and crafts. We will make cool things like zines, bookmarks, & more. Open to all, no previous experience required!

Cancelled for weather! But stay tuned for future gatherings.

Read the paper, titled "High Standards for Critical Reading, Writing and Research in the Age of AI," here:

This past fall, the group drafted a white paper meant to address the challenges that generative AI poses for instruction in critical reading, writing, and research—skills vital to the humanities and foundational for all learning—and advocating for new forms of AI-free instruction.

Formed Spring '25, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group meets regularly to discuss how the rise of AI has impacted teaching, learning, and research.

When High Tech Meets Handmade With a passion for both handcrafted books and state-of-the-art technology, Emily Brooks, the new Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities at Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities,…

With a passion for both technology and handcrafted books, Emily Brooks brings her unique expertise to the Price Lab for Digital Humanities as their new Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities. @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu @pricelab.bsky.social

Exploring Handwritten Text Recognition for Manuscript Studies with 2025-2026 SIMS Fellows This discussion will present the work of two 2025-2026 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Graduate Student Fellows and a 2025 Penn Libraries Data Science and...

Monday, January 26, 3pm-4pm in Williams 623 📜 Register here: bit.ly/2026HTRChat