Come make your own pet dragon with the Cosplay Costuming & Crafts Club! All supplies and materials will be provided. The workshop lasts 3 hours, you are encouraged to arrive on time so you have the full workshop to work on your project, but feel free to leave early if you finish your project before the end of the event. In this WorkShop, you will make a smol dwagon friend that will fit right around your wrist and hand like a glove.
Join us for a playful clay workshop and create your own quirky phone hippers! This session is all about fun and imagination, so come ready to shape and style– we’ll provide all of the materials (except the phone)!
From September 19-December 5, join the Research and Development team for delicious coffee and discussion of interesting digital humanities code work. Zero experience required; these are non-sequential, so come for any or all.
Peter Capuano (Director of Literary and Cultural Studies; Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English) will join us for an informal conversation about the DH literary analysis methods used in his work. Capuano will be giving a formal talk in the UVA English Department that same day on “On the Mutuality of Method: Distant, Middle, and Close Reading in Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination”.
Capuano’s 2023 book Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination
Learn the basics of laser cutting and explore the different applications that it has in various industries! We’ll begin by creating a design in Adobe Illustrator and then using the Universal Laser Systems laser cutter to engrave, cut, or raster the material. You will gain hands-on experience with setting up the laser cutter, selecting the appropriate materials, and adjusting the settings for different tasks. By the end of the workshop, you will have a personalized creation!
required DH course
This streamlined event, hosted by director Rennie Mapp, will offer an overview of the events, deadlines, and opportunities for DH Certificate students in spring 2025.
Building on the University of Oxford’s history of leadership in digital scholarship, its globally significant collections, and its diverse array of projects and practitioners, Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) is an initiative to explore, enhance, and enable work in this field. By building capacity, growing community, and enriching engagement with collections, the initiative will help to unlock the University’s latent potential to produce internationally significant, innovative and engaging digital research.
DiSc’s mission, therefore, encompasses
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events over the course of April 2-8, 2025.
Quick online information session for students enrolled in the DH Certificate
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Course requirements
Swimming, snorkling, massages and dancing!
Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible?
In The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to “the line” we believe separates our species from the rest of the world but that also separates “persons” with legal rights from objects.
This talk explores how machine learning, specifically transformer-based large language models (LLMs), can analyze an extensive collection of Russian historical diaries (1800-2018). LLMs enable computational methods like semantic text similarity and clustering by creating numerical representations of the texts. These methods can reveal significant topics and subjects within the diaries, such as prices and weather, offering new possibilities for digital scholarship.
This work-in-progress takes as its provocation the ways that image-generating AI systems struggle with typographical forms. Systems like DALL-E 3 generate images of letters--shapes in text-appropriate contexts--but some of them are shaped a good bit less like letters than others. How should we understand these typographical hallucinations? Is there something that DALL-E 3 "knows" about typography that we don't? Today's AI operates on data at Internet scale, and I approach these questions in part by invoking the universe of printed matter as a nineteenth-century analog.