

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 09:00 am – Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Dream Lab 2026About this EventThis course will explore how to apply digital humanities tools and methods to the study of 16th and 17th century print culture and to early modern studies more generally. Learning how to draw on the full potential of tools like EEBO-TCP and EarlyPrint, we will do hands-on work in fields such as text encoding and analysis, machine learning, and computational bibliography. No coding experience is required, and activities will run the gamut from working directly with early modern archival materials to digital work with no programming at all to working in code notebooks. Topics will include:Remediating archival materials into images and machine-readable textWorking with published metadata and popular databases about the early modern book tradeRegularizing and normalizing early modern spelling using computersSearching and classifying texts within early modern corpora like EEBO-TCPVisualizing and analyzing social networks using these corporaModeling early modern book data with computer vision and large language modelsStudents will leave with a suite of digital research methods as well as a better understanding of the potential research uses of projects like EEBO-TCP, EarlyPrint, the English Broadside Ballad Archive, Tudor Networks of Power, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Print &amp; Probability, and more.Special Scholarships:Thanks to the generosity of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, there are five $1,000 grants available to graduate students who are affiliates of . These competitive grants are intended to contribute to costs associated with attending Dream Lab. To apply, send your CV and a 250-word statement explaining your interest in the course and how it will enhance your research agenda to institute@folger.edu by March 3, 2025.Students at the University of Pennsylvania are not eligible for these scholarships. Penn students should contact Stewart Varner (svarner@upenn.edu) if they would like to participate.Instructor:John Ladd, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the department of Computing and Information Studies at Washington and Jefferson College. He teaches and researches on the use of data across a wide variety of domains, especially in cultural and humanities contexts, as well as on the histories of information and technology. He has published essays and web projects on humanities data science and cultural analytics, computational bibliography, the history of data, and network analysis.
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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 250, max: 450, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Philadelphia
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University of Pennsylvania
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- **full address**: University of Pennsylvania, 3260 South St, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, United States

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- **organizer**: Price Lab for Digital Humanities (https://allevents.in/org/price-lab-for-digital-humanities/23496724)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 09:00 am (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** University of Pennsylvania, 3260 South St, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 250 up to 450 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Price Lab for Digital Humanities
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, it, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books ?
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