Stewart Varner

An ink painting with muted black, blue, and orange tones by Hanabusa, Itchō (1652-1724), depicting the story of the blind men and an elephant. Text reads: TRUTH 2025–2026 / 2025-2026 Graduate Research Assistant, / Application Deadline: March 19.

Join us! The Wolf Humanities Center invites applications for a 2025–26 Graduate Research Assistant position that provides a stipend and full support. Open to dissertation-level Penn students in the humanities whose work pertains to "Truth." Apply by March 19.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/graduate-res...

What's in an anthology? @jdporter.bsky.social, Price Lab DH Specialist, & @fredner.org (with assistance from David McClure & the @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social) built a relational database of all 464 authors & 3,374 works published across the ten editions of the Norton Anthology of American Literature.

#dh #digitalhumanities

The Price Lab is hiring! We are seeking applications for a new Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities. Read more about the position and apply at bit.ly/WorkAtPrice. #hiring #dh #digitalhumanities

Black and white picture of Mark Sample and the the Dream Lab logo

Course description and instructor bio. Too long for alt text but can be found at https://bit.ly/CreativeCoding2024

Creative Coding, taught by the always inspiring @samplereality.bsky.social, is a really fun introduction to creative ways to collaborate with technology on artistic and critical projects. Learn more here: web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/cr...

Black and white images of the three instructors and the Dream Lab 2024 Logo

Full text of the course description and instructor bios. It's too long for the alt-text but you can find it here: https://bit.ly/DreamLab2024_AdvocatingForCommunity

We're getting excited about Dream Lab 2024 (June 10-13 @ Penn) & we'll be highlighting the courses & instructors over the next few weeks. Up first is Advocating for Community: Data Collection & Visualization led by Jennifer Garcon, Emily Esten, & Cassandra Hradil!

Register:
bit.ly/DreamLab2024...

Registration for Dream Lab 2024 is open!

Dream Lab is a week-long digital humanities training opportunity hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and designed to help humanists become more confident and thoughtful users, creators, and critics of digital technology.

web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread

*abstinence-core*

Ex: "He seems humbled by his interactions with younger rappers in the wake of the abstinence-core of KOD and the schoolmarmish “1985 (Intro to The Fall Off).”"

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Come live in Atlanta! Come work with a bunch of great folks! One more week to apply for this #AIAINetwork postdoc, aimed at humanities PhDs who use, critique, historicize, theorize, or otherwise engage with AI in their work.

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New episode of the Price Lab Podcast with former Price Lab Fellow, Joel Lee, is available everywhere you listen to podcasts!

Really excited to see this piece go up on Public Books!

"...romance is the juggernaut of contemporary literature, standing out from all other genres in its sheer scale and in the wild diversity of its subgenres."

www.publicbooks.org/genre-jugger...

Hannah Tardie of the Temple maker space is hosting a 🌈💫📻 radical Electronics Faire in April, and she's looking for "humanities-based paper presentations that examine an electronic object, artwork, practice/community/scene, infrastructure, protocol, interface, manufacturing process, network..." !!

Great talk in the Lab yesterday from Dan Calacci (currently @ Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy) about algorithmic management, digital wage theft & supporting gig workers' right to understand how they get paid. Learn more about their work here: www.dcalacci.net

Save the date!

Dream Lab 2024 will take place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia June 10-13, 2024.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Registration will open early 2024.

web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

Call for Applications: I been honored to serve on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship for 2 years now, going into my 3rd. The fellows we've been able to support are out here changing the world, and SSRC has been taking real good care of them. Are you next? www.ssrc.org/programs/jus...

A Day of Digital Publishing & Quire Join the Penn Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities for a deep dive into digital scholarly publishing featuring Quire, Getty’s free and open source publishing tool.

On November 8, Join the Penn Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities for "A Day of Digital Publishing & Quire," a deep dive into digital scholarly publishing featuring Quire, Getty’s free & open-source publishing tool.

12-5pm
Kislak Center, 6th Floor
www.library.upenn.edu/events/day-d...

Save the date! On February 14, 2024, Price Lab and Penn Libraries Research Data & Digital Scholarship will celebrate Douglass Day and help transcribe Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence from the Library of Congress.

More details coming soon!

I could probably but 8 flags in my office before anyone said anything

In the Hall of Flags. Honestly I was expecting more flags. There's maybe 8 in here.

Looking forward to an afternoon or digital publishing w/ Penn Libraries on 11/8. Lunch & panel discussion to of Quire from the Getty and Manifold from CUNY & U. of Minnesota Press. Stick around for a deeper dive in Quire. More info & a link to registration: pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/events/day-d...

Just over 2 weeks to go for applications to our Dream Lab Plus workshop! 🚨 Weekend sessions introduce faculty & information specialists to #digitalhumanities 101 through East Asian Studies!🌏💻 Reduced rates available to folks without institutional support. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/dr...

As part of Open Access Week, Ben Tiven (from Library Stack) and Amy Ballmer (from Pratt Libraries) and I are talking about open access + knowledge sharing — and discussing our new collab OA project, my Reparative Redaction booklet — this Thursday at 3pm ET on Zoom! pratt.libcal.com/event/11454430

Hey Penn/Philly folks! Check it out if you're around

I checked this out to learn more about publishing but also got plenty to think about RE: humanities/digital humanities teaching curricula

Photo of the side of the University of Virginia's main library, behind construction fencing but with a large "opening soon! we look forward to welcoming you in January 2024!" banner

Getting excited for our revamped digs! (Photo courtesy stellar Library colleague Amber Reichert.)

So excited that Distant Viewing is out today! We offer a theory and method for computer vision and how it can support the analysis of visual culture. An absolute delight to work with @springer.bsky.social and MIT Press. Thank you to all who have supported this project. Please help spread the word!