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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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:

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

This summer, Ph.D. student @jdeanross.bsky.social was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to develop his project, Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn: Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914-1930.

Angelina Eimannsberger (Price Lab Fellow 2021-22) on reading in the digital age:

Join us on Monday 9/29 as we discuss A.I. policies in the classroom at Penn and beyond. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

This Thursday 9/25 at the Kelly Writer's House: editors of & contributors to OUTPUT will present a selection of computer-generated texts. Register online: t.e2ma.net/click/kvc06k...

The book manuscript has been submitted to FUP for review and will be published late next year. And of course, our essays at falseimage.pennds.org are still available! @upennrels.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @pricelab.bsky.social

The book will feature improved and expanded versions of the articles on our website, brand new chapters on newspapers, authors, and monuments, as well as expanded historical and methodological sections surveying the background of the Black press and our approach to building our database.

Coming soon to a library near you: The False Image of History Project book! We're thrilled to announce that the False Image of History project will be published as a book as part of the Reconstructing America series at Fordham University Press @fordhampress.bsky.social!

Attn Penn grad students interested in digital humanities: join us this Thursday for our first grad student working group meeting of the year! Meet the crew, hear what the Price Lab is up to, and enjoy snacks on us 🫶 9/18 at 3:30pm in Williams 623

Our Critical Approaches to AI working group will be back at it this Monday 9/15. Join us in person or on Zoom! (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25)

The Price Lab hosted a preceptorial, Design Thinking and Making with Digital Humanities, where new @upenn.edu students like Prisha Saraiya went from brainstorming to sketching to designing vectors to cutting vinyl to make temperature-reactive mugs! #DHMakes

Join us August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT to learn more about the Omeka Intensive Courses! Instructor Dani Willcutt will briefly present on the Classic and S courses before addressing your questions. We hope to see you there! Register:

Curious what the False Image of History Project is all about? Here's an overview with project leader Donovan Schaefer on the origins of the project (and the meaning of the name!) as part of a Virginia Humanities Public Humanities Fellowship at the Library of Virginia. @pricelab.bsky.social

Another year of Dream Lab completed! @vierth.bsky.social and I had another fantastic group of folks learning DH for East Asian Studies with us for the past four days. 🙌 Many thanks as always to the @pricelab.bsky.social for supporting us!

Had a blast with so many new friends at the @pricelab.bsky.social’s Dream Lab workshop last week! For anyone interested in applying DH methods to book history questions, here’s a mini-site with a guide and all the materials from “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books”: jrladd.com/digitalbooks/

Teaching “DH in the Classroom” at DREAM Lab @pricelab.bsky.social was a rewarding experience. Fantastics students, the best collaborator @betovargas.github.io, and friends old and new. We covered a huge range of topics, but here’s a peek at the game we made in the #DHMakes unit.

Congratulations to our Andrew W. Mellon Summer Fellows! This summer, these students will receive support to pursue research in the digital humanities. Check back in the fall to hear about what they have accomplished 😎

Dream Lab 2025, over and out 💭 Thank you to all our instructors, participants, and behind-the-scene facilitators, especially our friends at Penn Libraries 🫶 Until next year—keep dreaming!

🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉

Tastykakes and Philly-style pretzels at Dream Lab, all stellar Philadelphia institutions. Thank you @pricelab.bsky.social!

We did our best to fix tic tac toe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks to Profs John Sharp & @colleenmacklin.bsky.social for illustrating the value of failure & iteration in game design and beyond

#DreamLab2025 Day 1 is under way!

Congratulations to Eug Xu, graduating today with a minor in Digital Humanities 🎓 (Photos by Dina Zhanybekova)

Dream Lab 2025 kicks off in just one week! 💭🧪 We're looking forward to seeing everyone in Philly very soon. In the meantime, read course descriptions, check the schedule, & finish up that last-minute registration here: web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

As finals draw closer, don't forget that the Price Lab hosts weekly office hours! We’re ready to answer questions about DH tools, help you get your project off the ground, brainstorm ideas, and more. Join us in Williams 616 every Friday 1pm-3pm!

🚨🚨🚨 Today is the last day for early bird pricing on our Dream Lab 2025 courses! Register by midnight to save $$: web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/20...

🚨🚨🚨 Today is the last day for early bird pricing on our Dream Lab 2025 courses! Register by midnight to save $$: web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/20...

*Fellow Spotlight* Angelina Eimannsberger is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and the 2024-25 Graduate Research Assistant at the Wolf Humanities Center.

As finals draw closer, don't forget that the Price Lab hosts weekly office hours! We’re ready to answer questions about DH tools, help you get your project off the ground, brainstorm ideas, and more. Join us in Williams 616 every Friday 1pm-3pm!

7 days left to register for #DreamLab2025 at early bird rates. Save money, learn DH, feel amazing 😎 web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

Tomorrow!

Next Wed. 4/23: our grad student working group will convene for an introduction to community archiving 🗂️ Join us at 11am in Williams 623!

Been stuck in a daydream 💭 and forgot to register for Dream Lab 2025? No worries—early bird pricing has been extended until May 1. Register for one of our #DH workshops by then to save $100: web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/20...

Dream Lab presents: “Text Analysis," a #DH workshop hosted at the University of Pennsylvania this May.

Next up, Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington) will present his talk: “Characters, Epistolary Novels, and the Analog History of A.I.” This talk is tomorrow (Monday, April 7) at 5:15 PM ET, on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library and on Zoom — DM us for more information!

Dream Lab presents: “Small Data, Big Dreams," a #DH workshop hosted at the University of Pennsylvania this May.