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A collaborative research community at Princeton that advances computational and data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. #HumanitiesforAI

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The conference also included a comprehensive three-day ATR/HTR Training Workshop designed to train graduate students and scholars with various experience levels and backgrounds in text recognition technology.
Christine Roughan presents to a room of graduate students and scholars with laptops out on the table.
September 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The intensive think tank centered on the challenge of adapting existing technologies for diverse scripts, textual traditions, and manuscript structures, especially for understudied languages and materials. (Photo: @cmroughan.bsky.social presenting to the group)
Christine Roughan speaks at a podium during the SCOOP conference.
September 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Thinking about enrolling in @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social's first-year seminar, Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages (FRS 159), this fall? Check out the feature story on it from earlier this year: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02...

Course: registrar.princeton.edu/course-offer...
Buzaaba, Mwita, and Ernest having a discussion in the classroom Teacher highlights multiple A.I translations of African languages to class Two students in class sharing a laptop
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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We're taking a look back at the past few months and sharing the unique ways Princeton students are engaging with AI and CDH! Read "First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars" at: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/05...
Students on a tour of Princeton’s High Performance Computing Research Center, gathered in a windy room with hair blowing. Students on a tour of Princeton’s High Performance Computing Research Center, gathered around a storage locker with amusement and taking photos on their phones. Students pose for a group photo in their classroom with writer Ted Chiang who visited the class. They are wearing mostly dark attire and standing behind a long white desk with chairs. Students pose for a group photo in their classroom with writer Nnedi Okorafor who visited the class. The students are wearing various bright colored clothing and stand behind a long white desk and chairs. Nnedi stands at center.
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Apply to the China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop on June 16–20! Apps due May 10: chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu

Organized by professors @annamshields.bsky.social and
@vierth.bsky.social, this DH intensive will cover methods like Text Analysis, Databases, Mapping and GIS, and more!
May 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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From @oregonstateprax.bsky.social → Working on issues related to data and genAI? Apply for a 2025-26 Public Humanities Fellowship. Theme is Trust in the Age of Gen AI and offers a platform for public-facing writing. No need to be an expert. Deadline is April 25: prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Tomorrow with @nnedi.bsky.social and response from Princeton's @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social! RSVP here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This event is free, open to the public, and includes a book sale and signing. Read more about Death of the Author here: nnedi.com/books/death-...
March 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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March newsletter is out ➡️ Summer of DH awaits 😎 🧳: mailchi.mp/princeton/ma...
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Coming up! → The #HumanitiesforAI series continues on March 18 with "The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art," a lecture by award-winning writer Ted Chiang!

RSVP: forms.gle/yJCqCmPW54NC...

Free and open to the public. Please note: This event will not be live-streamed or recorded.
March 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Tomorrow! @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social presents "The US of AI" with response from @mmvty.bsky.social.

More info: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
February 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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📌🗓️ Save the dates! Our Spring 2025 #HumanitiesforAI events at #Princeton are announced! Scroll the thread below to read more and RSVP to talks with Matt Kirschenbaum, Ted Chiang, and Nnedi Okorafor! More details soon.
January 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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December 13, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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On our holiday list: DH Courses! 🛍️ In this month's newsletter, we offer, "Your Definitive Guide to Course Shopping in Princeton and Beyond" as well as Save the Dates for 3 exciting public lectures in the Spring, opportunities, and of course... links we're digging! → mailchi.mp/princeton/de...
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December 5, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22, with #GrahamNeubig (Carnegie Mellon): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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Promotional poster for the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series, featuring an event on Friday, November 22 with Professor Graham Neubig discussing 'AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures'. Hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Includes details about the time, location, RSVP QR codes, and sponsor logos. Portrait of a smiling person with short hair wearing a checkered shirt against a white background. The person in the image is Graham Neubig who will be presenting the lecture for this event.
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Wow. We logged on this morning to a *few hundred* new followers on here! 🦋👋 We're so happy to be connected with you all. If you're interested in digital humanities and our center at Princeton, we hope you'll also join our monthly newsletter → princeton.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Last month, CDH kicked off the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series with a full house for Vukosi Marivate's talk, "A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once".

📹 Watch the recording at: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/....
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October 30, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Mwebaze will discuss practical use cases for low-resource language models in Ugandan languages and some hacks and workarounds for getting them to work in practice. @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, CDH/African Language Technologies Postdoctoral Research Associate, will serve as a respondent.
Promotional poster for the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series event, featuring Ernest Mwebaze from Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda. Scheduled for Thursday, October 24, 4:30 PM, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton. Bright orange and yellow color scheme with decorative geometric patterns. RSVP information provided.
October 22, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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How do computers “view” images, and how can viewing with them inform our understanding of the past? Join us tomorrow 10/21 @ Princeton for "Distant Viewing: AI and Ways of Seeing," with @nolauren.bsky.social (University of Richmond; @distantviewinglab.bsky.social): cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
Promotional poster for an event titled "Distant Viewing: AI and Ways of Seeing" featuring speaker Lauren Tilton, Professor at University of Richmond. The event is scheduled for October 21, 4:30-5:30 PM, organized by The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton. The background is purple, pink, and blue with abstract geometric patterns and includes a QR code for RSVP, and contact information at the bottom.
October 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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Today (9/23), we host our annual CDH Open House. This year, the CDH turns TEN! 🎈🍰 Join us from 4:30 to 6 pm on Floor B of Firestone Library for refreshments and a toast to celebrate our anniversary and theme for the year ahead: #HumanitiesforAI.

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Promotional poster for the Center for Digital Humanities Open House event at Princeton University. The event theme is 'Humanities for AI' and is scheduled for Monday, September 23, from 4:30-6:00 PM on the Firestone Library's B Floor. The poster features an invitation to join for refreshments and a toast celebrating the annual theme, with a vibrant, multicolored background.
September 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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The CDH has announced the three project proposals awarded 2024–25 Collaborative Research Grants!

Grantees will work with CDH Research Software Engineers and Project Managers to develop methods and software to aid their research.

cdh.princeton.edu/updates/2024...
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July 9, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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We're super excited for the upcoming DARIAH Annual Event! If you'll be there, don't miss CDH Faculty Director
@mmvty.bsky.social's keynote, "Worked Up About Data," on Wednesday, 6/19.

cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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June 12, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Meet the first two recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities: Gian Duri Rominger *23 (East Asian Studies) and Gyoonho Kong *24 (German)! 🎓

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Headshots of two men: Gian Duri Rominger and Gyoonho Kong
June 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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🗞️🎉 Have you seen the new article cluster on the CDH-sponsored Shakespeare and Company Project, edited by Joshua Kotin & CDH Lead RSE @suttonkoeser.bsky.social?! Check out: bit.ly/ShakesCoProj... or read the essays in the Journal of Cultural Analytics or @mmodernity.bsky.social (they're copublished!)
Interactive figures from cluster articles. Clockwise from top left: network graph of Woolf borrowers and purchasers (Southworth et al.); Reed Peggram‘s addresses in Paris (Whitmire); raincloud plot of Hemingway‘s borrowing (Koeser and LeBlanc); gendered reading differences (Karmanov and Kotin); titles by popularity in Shakespeare and Company and Goodreads (Antoniak et al.)
June 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Read the latest from the CDH blog! ✍️ In "Private Signals, Opaque Models, and an AI-Surveillance World" Lead RSE @suttonkoeser.bsky.social reflects on our first LLM forum and a growing discomfort with content privacy in an AI-hungry world of monetized surveillance: cdh.princeton.edu/updates/2024...
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May 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM