DH Events at Price Lab

We are a collaborative, interdisciplinary group sharing evolving research encouraging deeper discourse in critical making. We hold biweekly meetings to read relevant literature, discuss methodologies, explore campus resources, and learn by making together. We also hold open making hours to provide a supportive environment for communal making, transferring knowledge, giving feedback, brainstorming, sharing drafts, and peer-reviewing ongoing projects. All are welcome and encouraged to join any time!

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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 possibilities for its use for research in the humanities. No prior programming experience required!

Having attended this workshop, participants can expect to be able to:

set up a Python coding environment suitable for use with their own computer.

recognize potential use cases for Python and its libraries as humanistic research tools.

What happens to the letter when writing becomes computational and, from there, when computation becomes generative? Beginning with the apparently simple question of what the letter “A” is, this talk follows the historical concept of the letter through the strange metaphysics of digital writing, suspended as it is among code points, character encodings, glyphs, fonts, bitstreams, tokens, and now AI systems. Along the way, the letter becomes less a stable object than an explosive assemblage of numerical identities, graphical forms, technical standards, and material instantiations.

In this workshop, graphic designer and paper engineer Kelli Anderson will demystify how pop-up books come together. The workshop will begin with a lecture and Q&A during the morning (10:30am - Noon). During the afternoon session(1pm - 3pm), which is limited to 20 participants, Anderson will lead participants to engage in direct, hands-on building activities. She’ll present her design process for 3-D elements: how to build ‘blanks,’ how to envision 2-D design on 3-D surfaces, how to set up a print file for a dimensional project, and how to most effectively work with a printer. Each participant will receive a kit of laser-cut paper pieces, which we’ll assemble into a “sliceform” pop-up—taken directly from Anderson’s new book, Alphabet in Motion (2025).