An ongoing debate is the epistemological stakes of computational methods in humanistic inquiry. What kind of evidence is a word embedding or face detection and what can it tell us? How do we account for nuances across cultural, temporal, and geographical frames when engaging in pattern recognition and identifying outliers? To what degree does the […]
If you dream of reading the original screenplay that kicked off the “Jurassic Park” film franchise — leading to this summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World Rebirth” 32 years later — look no further than Box 1, Folder 15, of the David Koepp Papers. That precious bit of movie history is safeguarded by UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for […]
A collection of online/open-access articles, lesson plans, and websites about the Ancient World, including accessibility and inclusivity in the ancient studies classrooms. See full post.
We want to extend our thanks and recognition to the Fall 2025 DHNow Guest Editors: Rachel Hogan, Augustine Fariola, Abirlal Mukherjee, and Lívia Clarete. Thank you so much for your contributions to DH Now! We have been fortunate to receive a significant number of Guest Editor applications since we relaunched this Spring. Due to this, […]
Do you know individuals who seem to focus on one thing for their whole life? I’m on the opposite side of the scale. Inspired by Alli Torban’s “How I’ve spent my time” viz, a course on Domestika from Stefanie Posavec and my interest in doing datavis together with others, I made a workshop to reflect […]
Since fall 2024, the Center for Digital Humanities has led the “Humanities for AI” initiative through a series of events, projects, and conversations. We explore how humanistic values and approaches are crucial to developing, using, and interpreting the field of AI. As part of this effort, we publish a Q&A series with our guest speakers […]
The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences. Come join us! Absolutely no DH background is needed, and we specifically have channels for supporting students […]
The university has long been understood as a site of contestation between different modes of knowledge production and institutional authority (Becher and Trowler 2001; Collini 2012; Readings 1996). Yet I want to explore whether we are on the cusp of a transformation in this struggle that recalls, for me, the quarrel of the ancients and […]
It’s been a minute for the SO! podcast but we are glad to be back–however intermittently–with a podcast episode that shares a discussion between women sound studies artists and scholars. The panel “Living Sounds: Rhythms of Belonging,” was held on September 19 at 6-7pm EDT at The Soil Factory arts space in Ithaca, New York. […]
Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts rather than standing on their own. This article presents a novel method for analyzing and reading food stains in historical manuscripts using infrared spectroscopy, […]
