Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read more about Dream Lab here—not much time left to register at early bird pricing! 🌩️

Back again at Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ TEXT ANALYSIS with @jdporter.bsky.social 📊

Next Monday, April 20, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

Happening today at 4pm. Please join us in FBH 401!

Details and registration: pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/events/textp...

Just one week until @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social joins us on campus. (Note that we're now meeting in FBH 401 to accommodate a larger crowd!)

Please join us on Wed. April 22 for a conversation with Sarah Murray and @rahmuk.bsky.social about Dr. Murray's new book, POWERED BY SMART: A PREHISTORY OF EVERYDAY AI, a critical feminist history of the techno-cultural evolutions that make AI possible

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read more about Dream Lab here—just a few weeks left to register at early bird pricing! 🌩️

Back again at Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE CLASSROOM with @amandalicastro.bsky.social and @betovargas.github.io 🧑‍🏫

Next Monday, April 6, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

Find the full calendar of events (with registration links) here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/rdds

Also on Wed. April 22 (12pm-1pm), Dr. Christina Silver explores how AI is currently used for tasks such as coding and analytic support, while critically examining methodological, ethical, and epistemological implications 🧠

On Wed. April 22 (11am-12pm), a hybrid session about creating a polished, professional scholarly portfolio using accessible, beginner-friendly web hosting tools 📁

On Wed. April 8 (10am-11am), an in-person session about turning your research into a zine ✂️

🌸 APRIL EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 🌸

Join the Price Lab’s Graduate Student Working Group at these RDDS events this month!

Very happy and excited to be returning to Dream Lab again this May to explore early modern book history with text analysis, social networks, and machine learning. Consider joining me in Philly!

The Experimental Humanities Lab led by Fritz Breithaupt seeks a postdoc to help launch a research hub at the intersection of narrative, empathy, cognition, & AI.

PhDs in lit studies, cog sci, psych,+ who combine narrative insight w/empirical skills encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/183656

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read more about Dream Lab here—there's still time to register at early bird pricing! 🌩️

Back again at Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ DIGITAL APPROACHES TO EARLY MODERN BOOKS with @jrladd.com 📖

Next Monday, March 23, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

Next week at the Price Lab: a GIS Workshop 🗺️

Join us March 20 from 4pm-6pm in Williams 616 to learn the basics of georeferencing, the first step in extracting historical spatial data. Register now: forms.gle/JuA5cMixshv7tC6k7

Register to join in-person or online: libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/16233647

Tues. March 31: @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social leads another session in The Digital Humanist's Helpdesk series! This hybrid workshop will introduce users to GitHub, a platform that can help you to 1) code collaboratively, 2) share your code with an online community, or 3) create your own website.

Please join us! More details and registration here: pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/events/textp...

On Friday, April 17, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social will deliver a talk that considers the status of writing in the present moment not from the qualitative question of whether AI can write better than humans, but from the stance of political economy.

Next week at the Price Lab: a GIS Workshop 🗺️

Join us March 20 from 4pm-6pm in Williams 616 to learn the basics of georeferencing, the first step in extracting historical spatial data. Register now: forms.gle/JuA5cMixshv7tC6k7

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read about all Dream Lab courses and register (while early bird pricing is still on!) here 🌩️

Returning to Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ BLACK SPECULATIVE DIGITAL ARTS & HUMANITIES, co-taught by Dr. Michael Sterling Burns and Dr. Clayton Colmon 🔮

Penn working group publishes white paper about AI use in classrooms The paper warns that the growing role of artificial intelligence in academic spaces raises questions about the future of critical thinking and student skill development.

“We’re trying to encourage instructors to think about how this technology might be used in their classrooms, and to think about how it could either help or stand in the way of accomplishing the learning goals they have for their class."

Find the full calendar of events (with registration links) here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/rdds