Meetings & Events

The next meeting of the Slavic DH working group will be on Friday October 7, 2022, 1-2pm, at the CDH and on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/s/96800977659)

In academic year 2019-2020 the, Slavic DH Working Group meeting and events are:

September 3-6, Workshop: Digital Humanities and Visual Resources:   The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts

December 5, 12-1:15pm The Greek Revolution of 1821 online: A Digital Archive and a Research Project

Presented by Ada Dialla, Associate Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens) and Visiting Fellow in the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton, Fall 2019.

Professor Dialla’s presentation aims to discuss the collaborative and the interdisciplinary research project “The Greek Revolution of 1821: Digital Archive” (organized and implemented by the Research Center for the Humanities based in Athens). The project seeks a) to build a digital archive b) to provide a platform for researches and the broader public with a variety of material (archives, collections, works of art, everyday objects, folk songs, and other historical artifacts) c) to raise new research questions with an emphasis on the European, transnational and global
context of the Revolution. Professor Dialla will also present a) material concerning Greek-Russian trans-cultural relations and b) examples of using the archival content to produce digital historical narratives, scenarios, and exhibits.

This event will be co-sponsored by Hellenic Studies, the Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group, and the Center for Digital Humanities
Past events:

In academic year 2018-2019 the, Slavic DH Working Group meeting and events were:

Wednesday, September 26, 4pm (CDH): Working Group Meeting

Welcome back after summer! Catch up & plan for year ahead

Tuesday, November 13, 12-1:20pm (CDH): Works-in-Progress Talk. See here for info. 

Visualizing St. Petersburg  (Antonina Puchkovskaia, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg)

This work-in-progress talk will present the Visualizing St. Petersburg project, an open-source-software-based web application containing historical and cultural heritage data about key landmarks of St. Petersburg, Russia. With input from scholars of history, library science, cultural studies and information technologies, the project team has conducted semantic analysis on a large, multilingual textual corpus that includes memoirs, documentaries and periodicals, and uses Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to encode information about people, relationships, and events, and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to identify locations. All landmarks are being mapped onto an interactive city map of St. Petersburg with a user-friendly interface to facilitate easy navigation and filtering.

Antonina A. Puchkovskaia, PhD, works as an Associate Professor at ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), where she teaches Digital Humanities and Digital Culture courses. She is a director of the International DH Lab co-directed by Professor Kimon Keramidas from NYU. As a PI she manages two interdisciplinary projects funded by Russian Humanities Foundations. She regularly participates in various international conferences in the USA, Canada, Malta, Finland, Estonia etc. giving workshops and presentations on different aspects of Digital Humanities. She is an author of more than 15 publications and currently working on a book “Generation Z on Digital Culture”.