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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 1d

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!

Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu · 1d

At the year’s first Ben Talks, which took place in Los Angeles in September, alums heard a faculty panel discuss the evolution of printing technologies, art as a nuanced archive of sexuality, memory cards as media distributors, and more.

A Conversation about Art Artifacts and Society

At the year’s first Ben Talks, which took place in Los Angeles in September, alums heard a faculty panel discuss the evolution of printing technologies, art as a nuanced archive of sexuality, memory…

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 3d

Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 4d

A sneak peak of some of the exciting (and illuminating) data visualization you'll find in the article

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 4d

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:

The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics

By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 7d

Their project draws from a Department of Housing and Urban development database—which (with a team of undergraduate student collaborators), they’ve enhanced & mapped with GIS. Explore the map here: buildinginequality.us

Building Inequality

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 7d

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

Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America

On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 10d

Explore Jordan’s living digital archive:

Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn

Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914 -1930

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 10d

Working with imperfect and incomplete archival sources, Jordan gathered photographs, documents, timelines, and biographies into a searchable platform that explores how Black students at Penn in the early 20th century navigated the racial dynamics of predominantly white institutions.

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 12d

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

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

In Angelina Eimannsberger’s review of “Digital Social Reading” (@mitpress.bsky.social), she finds serious value in online reading.

“Given everything we are up against,” she concludes, “what more joyful yet profoundly argued conclusion could a scholar offer?”

Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)

There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 15d

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!

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 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 📜

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · 24d

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!

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The articles gathered here tell the stories of how Black journalists from the late nineteenth century to the present viewed efforts by white Southerners to celebrate the Confederacy in the long aftermath of the US Civil War.

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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · 24d

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.

The articles gathered here tell the stories of how Black journalists from the late nineteenth century to the present viewed efforts by white Southerners to celebrate the Confederacy in the long aftermath of the US Civil War.

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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · 24d

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!

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 26d

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

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 29d

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 @pricelab.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

First year student Prisha Saraiya with temperature-reactive mug

Conference table with supplies for workshop in design thinking such as colorful paper, markers, and blank mugs

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Omeka @omeka.org · Aug 21

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:

Omeka Intensive Course Info Session

Sign up to join us for the Omeka Intensive Course Info Session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. We will circulate the Zoom link the day of the event.

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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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Virginia Humanities Fellow Donovan Schaefer Introduces the "False Image of History" Website

YouTube video by LibraryofVa

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · Jun 12

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!

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John Ladd @jrladd.com · May 29

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/

Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books

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Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social · May 29

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.

3D printed dice and wood game board laser cut in a honeycomb pattern.

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