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Up next: Award-winning novelist @nnedi.bsky.social joins us on April 3! Please join us for a conversation on her new novel, Death of the Author, with response from Princeton's @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social (@princetonartandarx.bsky.social, African American Studies, Africa World Initiative).

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Tuesday! The #HumanitiesforAI series continues on March 18 with "The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art," a lecture by award-winning writer #TedChiang! RSVP: forms.gle/yJCqCmPW54NC... Free and open to the public. Please note: This event will not be live-streamed or recorded.

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We made it easy to find our past newsletters. Our March email goes out within the hour! If you're not subscribed, you can do so here 💙!

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@scottbot.bsky.social donned his "historian of technology" hat today to visit @nescioquid.bsky.social's and my incredible students in "Data & Culture" and @whitneytrettien.bsky.social was visiting too and it was just a wonderful thing to be at the @princetoncdh.bsky.social together today.

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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.

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📄 A set of provocations for considering the uses, impact, and harms of Gen AI from the perspective of humanities researchers. @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @mmvty.bsky.social, André Brock, @mariaa.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, @jmjafrx.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social, @dmimno.bsky.social

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For those of you who asked if @princetoncdh.bsky.social could stream @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's talk with us Tuesday, he's posted a public draft below. For those of you interested in my response, it was to pour us each a glass of single malt and sit in silence for a moment.

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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/...

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APPLY → Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Visualizing the Past: Mapping Athens’ Lost Neighborhood: July 7 - 11. Open to scholars from all disciplines, regardless of technical background, this workshop is designed to explore DH methods for mapping & spatial visualization.

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I’ve changed the focus of my upcoming @princetoncdh.bsky.social talk because as an academic and a citizen who takes my training and expertise seriously I cannot do otherwise. The new title, with a h/t to @rgrusin.bsky.social for suggesting it, is “The US of AI.”

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Please join us in kicking off the spring 2025 #HumanitiesforAI series with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's talk "The US of AI" next Tues, Feb. 25, at 5 p.m. with CDH Faculty Director @mmvty.bsky.social as respondent. The event is hosted with Media+Modernity at the School of Architecture (Room N-107).

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📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.

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Our February '25 newsletter lands in inboxes tomorrow 📬 Subscribe here 👉 eepurl.com/c3witv It features an article about a new course by CDH Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social on the challenges of increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and an exciting roster of spring events!

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At the latest Faculty Research Forum, Natalia Ermolaev (Executive Director, CDH) shared how faculty can explore computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic research.

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In December, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @cmroughan.bsky.social traveled to Vienna for the 3-day workshop concluding the Winter School on #HandwrittenTextRecognition (HTR) of Medieval Documents. Read her insights here: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/02...

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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.

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Our DH Strategist, Grant Wythoff, has a book coming out in May! 📱📕 "Expertly blending history, theory, and contemporary practice, A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech offers a fresh and illuminating take on why our bodies still matter as much as the devices they control."— @laurenfklein.bsky.social

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Reintroducing the CDH team 🦋👋

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It's a new year and "A New Phase for Derrida’s Margins" 🌘 @jerielizabeth.bsky.social interviews @suttonkoeser.bsky.social on the decision and process of transforming Derrida’s Margins into a “read-only” version and discusses the challenge of defining endings and potential futures for DH projects.

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I am biased as her advisor, but Kim Akano's dissertation and DH work (the latter supported by our wonderful @princetoncdh.bsky.social) are fascinating and will add so much to our understanding of the role of religion in African American and African connections. #AcRel

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FINISH the year with STARTWORDS! Announcing the release of Issue 5: Processes 🎉 This issue features the work of 3 leading grad students from CDH using data curation and visualization to highlight the importance of everyday, historical people whose lives may otherwise have remained unknown to us.

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We are so excited to share CDH Project Manager @marynaydan.bsky.social's #Princeton Winter Session workshop: Project Management 101! This one-day intensive workshop will provide a crash course in PM theory and practice, with a special focus on software development in an academic research context.

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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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A number of centers and programs at Princeton have also joined Bluesky. Check them out! (And if you need to be added to this pack, send us a DM!)

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Shoutout to our CDH team at #CHR2024 @suttonkoeser.bsky.social, @laurejt.bsky.social, & @wouterhaverals.bsky.social! If you want to follow along, here's a great "feed of posts and replies about the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) 2024 conference in Aarhus" organized by @mariaa.bsky.social.

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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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We are proud to be featured as one of Princeton's "exceptional resources for research and teaching" in "Humanities at Princeton: Taking a big swing at big questions," a wonderful article about the University's new Humanities Initiative. Check it out!

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Deadline extended! dhrescunit.github.io/posts/project/

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As the migration to Bluesky continues, we thought we would recommend some great voices to follow.

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Thrilled to share that the CHR2024 proceedings are now live! 🚀 This incredible collection reflects the hard work of so many in the Computational Humanities community. Excited to see these papers presented at the conference in December! 🎉📚 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/ Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

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We have a few Starter Packs to check out 🙂 But first, meet our awesome team!

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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/... #HumanitiesforAI

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For those in Princeton tonight! The editors of The European Review of Books (Sander Pleij, Wiegertje Postma, and George Blaustein) will hear 3-minute pitches from audience members who’d like to propose an article idea for publication in the magazine. ihum.princeton.edu/events/pitch...

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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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This is a lot of fun, from one of the @princetoncdh.bsky.social student interns at the Princeton Prosody Archive on the metrical game of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' title memes: prosody.princeton.edu/editorial/20...

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