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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'll be at Princeton week after next for a short residency with three events, if you find yourself in NJ cdh.princeton.edu/events/leif-...

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join @leifw.bsky.social also on 10/5 for a workshop that will guide participants through the basics of an LLM setup and the specific way that models are trained to "reason." @princetonainews.bsky.social

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Can LLMs Reason? A Hands-On Exploration

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coming up on 10/6! @leifw.bsky.social discusses the epistemic order that LLMs are currently spreading throughout our culture, from policy to science to writing. More info & RSVP (requested) @ the link! Presented in partnership with CDH, Media+Modernity, and @princeton.edu Humanities Initiative.

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How to Reason with Words: Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For @princeton.edu faculty tomorrow, 9/16 @ 12:15 - @mmvty.bsky.social will introduce a framework recently developed by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social’s AI and Research Working Group to help guide humanities scholarship in the age of AI. Together, explore its implications for teaching and learning.

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Faculty Discussion: AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Curious what digital humanities looks like in practice? Join us this Wed, Sep 16 @ 4:30 for CDH's annual Fall Open House to meet the team, explore current projects, and see how we collaborate on research — plus enjoy excellent refreshments. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Highly recommend this new essay. Come for the 29,000 index cards, stay for the introduction of Unicode & implementation of IIIF. One of my fav quotes: "A good research infrastructure should encourage and inspire research, and ours quickly did just that, accelerating the expansion of the data."

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow, co-director and director of Princeton's @genizalab.bsky.social — an affiliate lab of CDH — have each been awarded $300,000 from @nehgov.bsky.social to produce new scholarly editions and translations from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of over 400,000 medieval manuscripts.

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Two CDH-Affiliated Scholars Win Major NEH Grants for Cairo Geniza Research

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Princeton Geniza Lab @genizalab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

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Princeton Geniza Project Dataset

Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Eg...

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Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yesterday with @genizalab.bsky.social team & @jerielizabeth.bsky.social in @princeton.edu Commons Visualization Lab to see how the "CURVE" could enable new research on Princeton Geniza Project materials. Shown: mosaic of "join" fragments arranged by similarity; prototype PGP image search/browse.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The chapter is co-authored by PCW co-founders @alexwermercolan.bsky.social, Devren Washington, Allan Gomez, and the CDH's own Grant Wythoff. The book is edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social @jamessmithies.bsky.social & Urszula Pawlicka-Deger.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Neighbors maintain a free broadband network in Philadelphia — @phillywireless.bsky.social — that now serves 7,600+ users. Read about the six-year project to build community-supported infrastructure in the latest Debates in DH volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/06...

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New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Each DDH volume is an innovation, and this one is no exception. In CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES, @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and @jamessmithies.bsky.social present the "manifest," a documenting of the infrastructure used to research and produce each chapter. Dig in here!

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This spring, Grad Fellows across humanities disciplines applied methods such as scanning, modeling, and mapping to their research questions. Their findings? Working with data and computational methods rarely unfolded the way they expected, the labor uncovering “strange and beautiful” discoveries.

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Graduate Fellows Scan, Model, and Map: New Discoveries from Sermons to Ballet

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Our June newsletter goes out this week! Subscribe to get a summer's worth of news, events, opportunities, and recommendations! We'll be taking a summer break for some R & D until September 💙🏖️✍️🔬

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...

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Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Recently published: article on the research that went into the 2.0 version of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, and the potential of the updates and additional data on member addresses and authors. doi.org/10.22148/jca... One of the first few in the newly launched JCA!

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<em>Shakespeare and Company Project</em> Data Sets, Version 2.0

The Shakespeare and Company Project data sets provide a detailed portrait of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. This article outlines the research,...

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

+ @genizalab.bsky.social: Marina Rustow, Near Eastern Studies + African Language Technologies Lab: Christiane Fellbaum, Linguistics & @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, @princetonainews.bsky.social + REACH² Lab: @vierth.bsky.social, East Asian Studies + Poetry's Data Lab: @mmvty.bsky.social, English

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ranging from computational text analysis to the development of language technologies and digital reconstructions of historical places, meet our four inaugural CDH Affiliate Labs! Affiliation recognizes rigorous, innovative work at the intersection of humanities and computation at @princeton.edu.

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CDH announces inaugural Affiliate Labs

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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 20/04/2026

🎶 When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? A new @princetoncdh.bsky.social Collaborative Research Partnership called MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings) hopes to find out.

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Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"Bears Will Be Boys" was a featured "Link we're digging" in our August 2025 newsletter. Congrats @mellymeldubs.bsky.social!

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, & Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? Check out our new Collaborative Research Partnership w/ assistant professors Anna Yu Wang (Music) & Jürgen Hackl (Civil & Environmental Engineering).

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Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

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Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A more than timely rediscovery of the first 1897 robot-film. Especially given what @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social said today at @princetoncdh.bsky.social about how we shouldn't buy AI company's framing AI as genial automata. (In hindsight, and with Benjamin's "Mechanical Turk," an instructional film…)

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Gugusse et l'Automate (1897) Méliès

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

The book cover for Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. The title is in large block letters at the top left; a hand-drawn area chart in a black to yellow gradient takes up the right side of the image.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This Modeling Culture talk will be held in the @princetonartmuseum.bsky.social, and is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council, the Princeton Humanities Initiative, and the @princetoncitp.bsky.social.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.

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Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.

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ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Attn @princeton.edu humanities faculty! Curious about AI as a research tool but aren't sure where to start or how to use it? RSVP to this workshop on April 8th where we'll break down the jargon, explain how to make informed choices about AI tools, and show what resources are available at Princeton.

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AI for humanities research?

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Panelists: Hilke Schellmann, Emmy Award-winning reporter; CITP Fellow @madelyne.github.io, CITP grad; former fact-checker @newyorker.com @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com, ML engineer; journalist: AI initiatives @nytimes.com @anjdelgado.bsky.social, Group Managing Editor: Hearst Connecticut Media Group

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.

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AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism

Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

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No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Earlier this winter, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/02...

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Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Speaking of, @mmvty.bsky.social also presents this month! Her keynote, “Humanities and AI: Modeling Culture Across Disciplines,” was given last week at the National University of Singapore, and will be next week on March 18 at Hong Kong Baptist University: digitalfutures.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/program....

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Hong Kong Baptist University - The 3rd International Symposium on Humanities and Culture

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Tomorrow at NYU, @wouterhaverals.bsky.social presents "Style and Prejudice: Attribution Bias in Human and AI Literary Judgment" as part of the Cultural AI: An Emerging Field conference. The talk comes out of the Exercises in Literary Style project with @mmvty.bsky.social, linked below.

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