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DH RPG: Role Playing Game

Join us to play a role-playing game on and learn how a digital humanities project works! The DH RPG is a tabletop role-playing game designed to teach project management and ethical collaboration in the context of digital humanities projects.

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February 13, 2025, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
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RDDSx Space, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Floor 1
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Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
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This event is held as part of Love Data Week, an annual celebration of data during the week of Valentine's Day. 

The DH RPG was created by Quinn Dombrowski, who taught it as part of DLCL 205 at Stanford University in winter 2020.

You can read more about the RPG and the course in:

  • "Rolling the Dice on Project Management", IDEAH vol. 2, issue 2.
  • "Academia is a Dice Roll", with Agnieszka Backman, Sabrina Grimberg, and Melissa Hosek, forthcoming in Debates in DH: The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, eds. Simon Appleford, Gabriel Hankins, and Anouk Lang.

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