Price Lab Podcast

Price Lab for Digital Humanities•pricelab.sas.upenn.edu

The Price Lab is the University of Pennsylvania's center for innovative uses of technology in the study and teaching of history, art, and culture.

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Price Lab Podcast • Ep 12 • Thomas Padilla

In this episode, Thomas Padilla (Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy, Center for Research Libraries) joins Penn's Dr. Jennifer Garcon to discuss the Collections as Data project, reparative justice practices in DH, and the possibilities and pitfalls of the word community. Resources Always Already Computational: Collections as Data Thomas Padilla, Laurie Allen, Sarah Potvin, Hannah Frost, Elizabeth Russey Roke, Stewart Varner Collections as Data: Implications for Enclosure Thom...

Apr 20, 2021•36 min

Price Lab Podcast • Ep 11 • Lauren Klein

Lauren Klein is an Associate Professor at Emory University and Price Lab fellow Nicky Agate joined Lauren Klein over Zoom to talk about Lauren's book, Data Feminism, co-authored with Catherine D’Ignazio. Lauren and Nicky discuss the intersection of feminist thinking and data science, the genesis of data visualization, and how data can be used for social good. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Poddington Bear

Feb 01, 2021•14 min

Price Lab Podcast • Ep 10 • Hilde De Weerdt

We're opening the Price Lab's podcast vault to release an episode with former Mellon Graduate Fellow, Florian Breitkopf, in conversation with Prof. Hilde De Weerdt (Chinese History, University of Leiden). They discuss Prof. De Weerdt's path to Chinese studies, the presence of the digital humanities in European academia, and how working with digital methodologies can help scholars collaborate across disciplinary, geographical, and oral boundaries. Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Nov 17, 2020•11 min

Price Lab Podcast • Ep 9 • Kathleen Fitzpatrick

In this episode, Price Lab's Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Whitney Trettien(Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania), is joined in conversation by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Digital Humanities; Professor of English, Michigan State University). Fitzpatrick and Trettien discuss the opportunities of digital publishing, as well as the importance of higher education, and the status of optimism in decidedly pessimistic times. Fitzpatrick is author of Generous Thinking: A ...

Nov 09, 2020•24 min

Price Lab Podcast • Ep 8 • Pt 2 • Sylvester A. Johnson

The Price Lab podcast is back for a second season! Our first guest, Sylvester A. Johnson (Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities), is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of race, technology, and religion. Johnson joined Price Lab's Managing Director, Stewart Varner, to discuss his work in the digital humanities and the importance of fostering the humanities in STEM education. Their discussion was fascinating and nearly impossible to edit down to our ...

Oct 20, 2020•25 min

Price Lab Podcast • Ep 8 • Pt 1 • Sylvester A. Johnson

Oct 20, 2020•27 min

Dream Lab Podcast • Ep. 8 • Clay Colman • Afrofuturism

In the final episode of the Dream Lab series, we're joined by Dr. Clayton Colmon, the Associate Director of Instructional Design for Penn Arts & Sciences Online Learning. He talks about his personal connection to Afrofuturism and its many applications to pedagogy.

Jul 23, 2020•17 min

Dream Lab Podcast • Ep. 7 • Scott Enderle • Text Analysis

This year, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Freely available tools and excellent tutorials have made it easier to apply computational text analysis techniques, but researchers may still find themselves struggling to figure out how to harness these methods in ...

Jul 17, 2020•13 min

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