Happy holidays from the CDH ❄

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From our home offices to wherever you are closing out 2020, the staff of the Center for Digital Humanities hopes you have a restful, joyful, and healthy holiday season. We can't wait to do exciting new things with you in 2021!

Above: A few of the CDH staff members share holiday greetings.

News

Programming4Humanists at Texas A&M University is offering a spring 2021 course in Python for the Digital Humanities. According to the course description: "Over the past decade, Python has become the lingua franca for performing computational work in the sciences and the humanities. Compared to other procedural programming languages, Python’s learning-curve is low, and due to its popularity, an ever-increasing set of tools exists for using Python to produce, explore, analyze, and present data derived from cultural artifacts. This semester length course seeks to drastically lower the barrier-to-entry for humanities researchers interested in unlocking the power of Python." Learn more about the course, registration, and cost details.

Nominations are open for the 2020 Digital Humanities Awards! Nominate your favorite DH work from 2020 (including your own!) by January 31, 2021. Read more about the categories and submit your nominations.

Upcoming Event:

January 4, 11 a.m. to noon: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce. In this meeting of the Shakespeare and Company Project book club, in partnership with Princeton Public Library, participants will discuss Joyce’s novel. The book club explores titles frequently borrowed from Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Access the book for free, and register for the discussion.

Links We're Digging Lately

This essay from Robin Wall Kimmerer in Emergence Magazine, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," was exactly what newsletter editor Kate Carpenter said she needed to read right now.

If you're looking for more ethical and privacy-conscious software companies, check out switching.software, which offers software alternatives for everything from operating systems to gaming to social media.

CDH developer Nick Budak pointed us to in:verse, "a programming language and environment for exploring the conflux of poetry, visuals, mathematics and code."

The CDH Newsletter is edited by Kate Carpenter, Princeton PhD student in the History of Science. Email her with newsletter suggestions or feedback.