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Our last grad student working group meeting of the semester! Join us this Thurs 12/4 for a discussion with @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jacquesanglais.bsky.social, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social, and Emily Hammer about DH work and the job market 💼

Join us once again on Monday 11/24 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!

Today @natmcgartland.bsky.social, PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland, spoke to us about data representation through textiles. From Jacquard loom punch cards to crochet patterns to paper weaving, Nat showed us that weaving & textile work has always been a form of data practice 🧶📊

When Scott Enderle <https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/news/jonathan-scott-enderle-1979-2021> and I were building the Shakespeare Census, one of the first things he insisted on was making it open and easily adaptable for others. I'm so pleased to his hard work on that part of the project bearing fruit.

The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...

This week, J.D. Porter speaks to our grad student working group about AI & LLMs—whether you love them or hate them, tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are increasingly hard to ignore in academic research. J.D. will explain how these tools actually work, enabling us to be better users/critics of AI.

For Penn undergrads with a nascent interest in DH, J.D. Porter’s spring course offers a practical introduction to computational methods for humanities research. No prior programming knowledge is required! More info on Path@Penn.

Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English) with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien

The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.

Did you know 🤔 that the Price Lab has office hours ⁉️ Pop by Williams 616 on Fridays from 1pm-3pm to chat with our resident DH experts about tools, projects, dreams, courses, ideas, notions, etc., etc. We’re ready to help!

Reinventing Aristotle | Manifold Scholarship Manifold @ Penn. An Intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing

Thanks to the work of graduate students Youri Buyle and Sarah Marie Leitenberger of the Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies department, the exhibit has been brought online, too—explore it now:

This fall, the “Reinventing Aristotle” exhibit opened in Penn's Kislak Center. Curated by Eva Del Soldato, Lynne Farrington, and Hannah Marcus, the exhibit shows how the philosopher has been refigured and reimagined in the centuries since his death.

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🫶 just joking around! Looking forward to the event and the liveness of it all

I hope you aren’t making fun of me 😔 I’m just a child (30yo grad student) 😢with a passion for graphic design 💔

The discussion will center around AI, technofeudalism, and the role of the university in our evolving digital world. We hope to see you there!

For those local to Philly: next Wed., 10/22, our faculty director @whitneytrettien.bsky.social will join @mattseybold.bsky.social and Christopher Newfield to tape an episode of The American Vandal podcast. Join the live audience! 5-7pm in UPenn's Fisher Bennett Hall, room 135.

Tomorrow afternoon!

Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV Digital edition of Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 201, Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV. A Collaboration of the Schoenberg Institute fo...

Explore the digital edition (with Eleanor’s annotations) 🏰 www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/chr...

For the digital edition, Eleanor contributed annotations that identify the legendary and historical characters depicted on the roll, point to sources the roll-makers might have used, and offer important historical context for users.

History PhD candidate & Summer Mellon Fellow Eleanor Webb joined Prof Emily Steiner’s inter-disciplinary team to help bring a 15th-cent genealogical roll held by @freelibrary.bsky.social online. Created circa 1461-1464, the roll is 15 ft long and consists of 11 sewn parchment membranes.

Join us next Monday 10/13 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!

Our faculty director, Whitney Trettien, delivered one of the presentations at this Ben Talks event—she talked about "innovation" in technology via the Pianotyp, a machine invented in 1840 that purported to automate typesetting. Read more about it in the article linked below!

Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623

A sneak peak of some of the exciting (and illuminating) data visualization you'll find in the article

Former Price Lab faculty director @jacquesanglais.bsky.social and current Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities @jdporter.bsky.social are in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social on “eclectic” reading practices as documented by Goodreads users:

Their project draws from a Department of Housing and Urban development database—which (with a team of undergraduate student collaborators), they’ve enhanced & mapped with GIS. Explore the map here: buildinginequality.us

Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig

Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation

Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914 -1930

Explore Jordan’s living digital archive:

Working with imperfect and incomplete archival sources, Jordan gathered photographs, documents, timelines, and biographies into a searchable platform that explores how Black students at Penn in the early 20th century navigated the racial dynamics of predominantly white institutions.