DH Events at Price Lab

Your gateway to DH events at Penn, this list features events sponsored by both the Price Lab and our many partners at Penn. Register here for any Price Lab event, or click through to the event page for more information. For events from our sponsors, please click through each listing for more information.

 

Price Lab for Digital Humanities
February 13, 2026 - 12:00pm - RDDSx - First floor of Van Pelt Library

Douglass Day 2026

Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass. Each year, we gather thousands of people to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history. We frequently focus on important Black women’s archives, such as Anna Julia Cooper (2020), Mary Church Terrell (2021), Mary Ann Shadd Cary (2023) and plenty more to come in future years. Learn more about the history of Douglass Day.

The annual Douglass Day Celenbration and Transcribathon is organized by the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State.

What is a transcribe-a-thon?

Price Lab for Digital Humanities
February 23, 2026 - 12:00pm - 623 Williams Hall

LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure

In this presentation, Director Jessica Marie Johnson and Assistant Director Nadejda Jahi Webb discuss the LifexCode ecosystem, key praxis, and several projects therein. 

Price Lab for Digital Humanities
March 16, 2026 - 12:00pm - Williams 623

Tyler Neill

Tyler is an independent Sanskrit scholar and programmer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He completed a PhD at Leipzig University in 2022, with a focus on Sanskrit philosophy, philology, and digital humanities, and he worked professionally as a software engineer in New York City for three years after that. These days, Tyler is creating digital infrastructure to support Sanskrit textual studies, including web apps, data repositories, and new digitizations of classical Sanskrit works.