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The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania

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J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · 17h
New editorial from Emily Hammer & the @pricelab.bsky.social Critical AI Working Group at Penn. "The Penn administration now budgets huge sums for licensing AI products. Our leaders should devote equal resources toward new physical spaces and staff that support innovations in AI-free instruction."
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Make Penn’s Critical Writing Seminars AI-free
Guest columnist Emily Hammer argues that a true commitment to high-quality writing instruction in the age of artificial intelligence requires hard limits. 
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Price Lab Seminar
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Next Monday at our Digital Humanities Seminar series: Anthropology PhD student Evan Tims will explore the possibilities of climate storytelling as a research method and mode of public digital humanities scholarship. Lunch will be served!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tues. Oct. 27: This short workshop will introduce humanists to the programming language Python and the numerous possibilities for its use for research in the humanities. No prior programming experience required!
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Python for Humanists
One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series. This short workshop will introduce humanists to the programming language Python and the numerous...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fri. Oct. 16: This session will guide participants through the pros and cons of various free and paid mapping tools and platforms like Google MyMaps, StoryMapJS, ZeeMaps, Felt, MapBox Studio, Leaflet, and ArcGIS Online.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Choosing a Digital Mapping Platform for Your Project
One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series. With many options to choose from, picking the right tool for mapping your research in the humanities can be...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This Fri. Oct. 9: Explore what it means to treat texts, places, and cultural artifacts as data, considering both the possibilities and limitations of computational approaches in humanities research
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Digital Humanist's Helpdesk: Basic Humanities Data Analysis
Humanities researchers are often not accustomed to treating their objects of study as “data,” rather focusing on texts, collections, or cultural objects as the base unit of their...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From our colleagues in RDDS, more events in the Digital Humanist's Help Desk series:
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join our Critical Making working group tomorrow for open making hours—bring a project or just drop by to chat any time between 1:30pm and 3pm in Vitale II ⚒️
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Join our Critical Approaches to AI working group next Monday, 10/5, at 12pm in-person and on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/PriceLabAI).
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oct. 13: In this workshop, you'll learn how to access and download census data, and then map it in QGIS, a free and open-source GIS software, to visualize patterns and trends. No prior experience with GIS or census data is required.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Mapping Census Data in QGIS (in-person)
Census data provides valuable insights into population demographics, housing characteristics, and more. In this workshop, you'll learn how to access and download census data, and...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oct. 8: This workshop explores practical uses of AI to develop in-class activities, design assignments, and transform course notes into study aids. Participants will also consider important questions related to privacy, accessibility, and academic integrity.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Applied AI: Practical Uses of AI for Teaching and Studying
Interested in using AI to supplement your teaching or enhance your study skills? This workshop explores practical uses of AI to develop in-class activities, design assignments, and...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coming up in October from RDDS—more events and workshops of interest for our Graduate Student working group!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oct. 26: Take back control in this workshop. Protect your time, your mind, and your privacy by learning more about how to enable and disable gen AI on your devices.
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Take Back Your Technology Hands-on Workshop
Take back control about how you interact with technology; protecting your time, your mind, and your privacy. Design an intentional experience of using your smartphones, laptops, and other devices.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oct. 6: Explore representations of automata, mechanical devices, computational objects, humanoid robotic sentience, cryptography, and more from the Kislak Center's collections
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History of Technology Showcase
Examine representations of automata, mechanical devices, computational objects, humanoid robotic sentience, cryptography, and more, in relation to gender, labor, multilingualism, and environmentalism.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Empire of AI Book Club continues in October! Join our colleagues in RDDS at these upcoming events...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tonight!
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Announcing Douglass Day 2027! Join us Feb 11, 2027 to transcribe early Black newspapers and magazines. Together we can make these papers open to all! We have tons of free resources coming soon to help bring Douglass Day into your class, school, or community! Register & updates: DouglassDay.org
SAVE the DATE
DOUGLASS DAY
Celebrating the 200* anniversary of the Black Press
2.11.2027
DouglassDay.org
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join the Critical Making Group tomorrow for a discussion of "#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse" (doi.org/10.23287/KJD...). All are welcome!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Attn Philly locals: Join us next Tuesday for an informal #DH happy hour! Any student, practitioner, instructor, or fan of digital humanities is welcome. We will meet up at Iron Hill Brewery in Center City around 5:30pm on 9/29 🍻
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dot Porter on the Vitale 2 Lab for Book History and DH
Price Lab Seminar
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Next Monday at our Digital Humanities Seminar series: @leoba.bsky.social will speak about how #DHMakes has inspired the work she's doing with @sims-mss.bsky.social in the Vitale II Lab for Book History and Digital Humanities. Lunch will be served!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This summer, in partnership with the Price Lab, four students—Arianna Baptiste, C’27, Alana Cyril, C’27, Samantha Pierce, C’29, & Stella Stein, C’29—helped Professor of History Marcy Norton create a database of plants & their historic purposes on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Wild Botanicals of the Atlantic World
Assisting Marcy Norton, Professor of History, four undergraduates spent their summers combing through centuries-old texts to learn more about the vital history of the area’s plants.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read more about the group & see what's coming up on the schedule:
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GitHub - Penn-Price-Lab/Critical-Making-Working-Group: This repository hosts files and the website for the Critical Making Working Group started by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the Universi...
This repository hosts files and the website for the Critical Making Working Group started by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania - Penn-Price-Lab/Critical-Making-...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This semester, join @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social as she leads a new, collaborative, interdisciplinary working group on critical making 🧶 The group meets every Tuesday—this week, for open making hours. All are welcome and encouraged to join at any time!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our Critical Approaches to AI working group will reconvene this Monday, 9/21, at 12pm in-person and on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/PriceLabAI). Please join us!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fri. Sept. 25: This session will guide participants through the pros and cons of various free and paid tools and platforms for creating digital archives and exhibits like WordPress, Omeka, Exhibit, CollectionBuilder, ArcGIS Storymaps, Quire, and Wax.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Choosing a Digital Archive or Exhibit Platform for Your Project
One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series. Many options exist for creating digital archives and digital exhibits for your research in the humanities....
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tues. Sept 22: If you’re thinking about ways to 1) code collaboratively, or 2) share your code with an online community, or 3) create your own website, this introduction to GitHub is for you.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Getting Started with GitHub
One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series. GitHub is a platform for sharing code that combines many useful tools: git (version control), Codespaces...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More exciting programming from RDDS! Check out these upcoming events from the Digital Humanist's Help Desk series ⭐️
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In this session (developed with Dream Lab participants!), explore alternative pedagogical approaches to generative AI tools by designing and testing "Data Center City," a board game where players work together to either build or block the construction of data centers in the Philadelphia area.
library.upenn.edu
Games-based Pedagogical Approaches to AI Literacy
Engage in hands-on games and activities developed by participants to explore alternative pedagogical approaches to understanding generative AI tools, and their socio-technical considerations.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to build and run open-source AI models locally on everyday hardware.
library.upenn.edu
Code Your Own Local Small Language Model for AI
A hands-on workshop where participants learn to build and run open-source AI models locally on everyday hardware while exploring AI infrastructure, privacy, ethics, environmental impacts, and minimal ...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join our colleagues in RDDS for a series of workshops this fall inspired by Karen Hao’s EMPIRE OF AI 📖 Upcoming events below...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Georeferencing is the process of assigning spatial coordinates to an image or map, allowing it to be accurately positioned on the Earth's surface. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of georeferencing and how to use QGIS, a free and open-source GIS software, to georeference scanned maps.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
Georeferencing with QGIS (in-person)
Georeferencing with QGIS (in-person)> Georeferencing is the process of assigning spatial coordinates to an image or map, allowing it to be accurately positioned on the Earth's...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Curious about machine learning but unsure where to begin? This workshop provides a basic introduction to how machines learn from data and covers core concepts such as training, prediction, and classification.
libcal.library.upenn.edu
An Introduction to Machine Learning: Core Concepts and Fundamentals
Curious about machine learning but unsure where to begin? This workshop provides a basic introduction to how machines learn from data and covers core concepts such as training,...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join the Price Lab’s Graduate Student Working Group at these RDDS events this month 🧵
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Read more and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/price-lab-...
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Price Lab Seminar
Emily Brooks
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Next week: our own @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social will kick off our Digital Humanities Seminar series. Emily will speak about the intersection of book history & DH, her experience with ornamental codex culture, bespoke book digitization, & the #DHMakes movement. Lunch will be served!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our Critical Approaches to AI working group will resume meeting this Monday, 8/31, at 12pm in-person and on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/PriceLabAI). Please join us!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We wrapped up Dream Lab 2026 yesterday 🌩️ Thank you to all our instructors, participants, and collaborators—what a week!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Welcome to Day 4 of #DreamLab2026!
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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A4: Our research team studying digital writing in a platformed age is loving playing with our data at Dream Lab this week through @pricelab.bsky.social at Penn! #literacies
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Day 3 of #DreamLab2026 🌩️
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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Day 2 of Dream Lab @pricelab.bsky.social complete! Today, we covered OCR and HTR and how to process unstructured data (texts) into structured data through Tf-Idf. After that, we learned 3 methods to understand similarities between texts using Tf-Idf, LDA (topic modeling), and XML tagging!
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#DreamLab2026 Day Two starts now!
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Heidi Zmick @hczmick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
First day at @pricelab.bsky.social Dream Lab done! For my course on Digital Methods for Early Modern Books, I got to see some beautiful early modern books, including this New Kreüterbůch full of herbal/medicinal plants! Pictured are various squashes and mouse-ear hawkweed. QK41 .F815 1543
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you for reminding us what we are here for :) Dream Lab 2026 continues! With purpose!
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
As a gift to myself I signed up for dream lab (summer camp) @pricelab.bsky.social and have made enchanted things on day 1 #dhmakes
Card with a drawing of the statue of liberty’s arm and torch at the 1876 centennial, with a green light illuminating a secret message: abolish ice A puppet made of cardboard resembling a man in Philadelphia wearing a Phillies capA laser cut circle with the skyline of Philadelphia hand drawn/raster etched, illuminated with blue light
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#DreamLab2026 is officially under way!
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Let’s go 🎉
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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Happy Towel Day! Experimenting with Matsui phantom clear screenprinting ink for my Dream Lab course- Critical Making: Enchanted Things! #DHmakes #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TowelDay @pricelab.bsky.social
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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Opportunity: ACH2026 #DHmakes Regional Hub
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ACH2026 #DHmakes Regional Hub
This form is part of the #DHmakes Mail Art Collaboration for ACH 2026, a community-driven project that invites participants to create, share, and exchange small crafted or artistic works through the mail. Inspired by the spirit of a neighborhood “picnic,” this initiative brings together digital humanists, makers, and curious participants to connect through making, whether that means zines, prints, textiles, small objects, or experimental forms. All levels of experience are welcome, including first attempts, unfinished ideas, and “learning through making.” By filling out this form, you help us coordinate participation, estimate the number of contributions, and organize the exchange of materials. Our goal is not perfection, but connection: to build a shared, material experience that complements the conference and extends beyond it, fostering collaboration, multilingual exchange, and a sense of collective care within the #DHmakes community. Important dates: April 27 – Deadline to sign up By May 1 – Participants will receive confirmation and number of items to produce May 1 – May 30 – Making period June 1 – Deadline to mail your contribution By June 12 – Packets assembled and shipped to participant During ACH 2026 – Virtual gathering to share and open contributions together
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