News
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May 20, 2020
New course offered in our DH Minor Curriculum!
The Price Lab collaborated with the English department, the Cinema and Media Studies program, and SAS Computing to launch
The Price Lab collaborated with the English department, the Cinema and Media Studies program, and SAS Computing to launch a new DH class on Digital Fakes and Forgeries. Taught by Elizabeth Scheyder of SAS Computing’s Instructional Technology division, the class will involve hands-on work to detect and create fake images, and will count toward the DH Minor in the College.
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October 31, 2019
Digital Humanities Minor spring 2020
The Price Lab is pleased to announce the spring 2019-2020 roster of classes for the Digital Humanities Minor.
The Price Lab is pleased to announce the spring 2019-2020 roster of classes for the Digital Humanities Minor. The Digital Humanities Minor guides students through three tiers of courses that augment their disciplinary studies in the humanities with advanced digital research techniques and in-depth engagement with theoretical and practical questions raised by digital humanities. By successfully completing the requirements of the minor, students will develop the insight to be both thoughtful users of technology and sophisticated critics of digital work. Students not majoring in humanities fields are also welcome to complete the minor.
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March 12, 2019
Mellon Summer Doctoral Research Fellowships
The Price Lab is pleased to announce Mellon Summer Research Fellowships for humanities graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Price Lab is pleased to announce Mellon Summer Research Fellowships for humanities graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The fellowships have been designed to allow students to take advantage of the relatively less-hectic summer months to pursue work in the digital humanities. Selected students may use the fellowship to engage in independent study, attend training institutes, or make significant headway on a research project.
Fellows will receive awards of up to $6,000 paid in three installments of $2,000; one at the beginning of the summer, one after the completion of a short progress report in the middle of the summer, and one after the submission of a final report at the end of the summer.
To apply, please submit a 500 word proposal and a copy of your current CV to price-lab@sas.upenn.edu by midnight April 8, 2019.
Please direct any questions to Stewart Varner, Managing Director of the Price Lab: svarner@sas.upenn.edu -
April 6, 2018
Michael Gamer and Scott Enderle discuss their playbill database in Omnia
Price Mellon Research Fellow, Michael Gamer, and Price Lab Associate Scholar, Scott Enderle were recently featured in Omnia discussing their English Playbill Project.
Price Mellon Research Fellow, Michael Gamer, and Price Lab Associate Scholar, Scott Enderle were recently featured in Omnia discussing their English Playbill Project. You can read the article here.
English Playbills from the 18th and 19th-century are filled with valuable information for researchers, but, the rich data in these documents have yet to be captured by a digitized database. The English Playbill Project will create a valuable searchable database and online data-entry form to tag and classify playbills for dramatic performances. For Gamer, the project has exciting possibilities. “What else can playbills tell us other than what they are designed to tell us?” he asks.
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February 24, 2016
2016 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures by Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH), March 14–17
The 2016 Rosenbach Lectures, "BitStreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage," will be delivered by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Maryland
The 2016 Rosenbach Lectures, "BitStreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage," will be delivered by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. Lectures are March 14–17, 2016 in the Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manusctipts at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and are free and open to the public. Details and registration: www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/rosenbachs.html.
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. The series began in 1931, with Christopher Morley as the first Rosenbach Fellow. Over the years, lecture topics have included fifteenth-century printing, the relationships between print and manuscript, papermaking, book illustration, American reading and publishing, and medical and scientific texts. Among recent lecturers are Robert Darnton, Anthony Grafton, Peter Stallybrass, David D. Hall, Paul Saenger, Michael Warner, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Alberto Manguel, Paul Needham, and most recently William Zachs.