交换机 | Digital Modern Language会议 “数字东亚研究的当前趋势”

会议简介

数字现代语言研讨会是AHRC资助的“开放世界研究计划”的一部分，并得到OWRI项目“跨语言动力：重塑社区和语言法案和世界创造”项目的支持。会议由伦敦国王学院举办，将会涉及数字文化，媒体和技术，结合现代语言的研究和教学，目前已经注册开放！

本届会议的主题为：“数字东亚研究的当前趋势”

举办时间为：2021年3月31日星期三，上午9-11时（英国夏令时）

本次会议注册免费，但请提前预订以下链接以访问该研讨会：

https ://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24079

Registration Open – Current Trends in Digital East Asian Studies, Wednesday 31 March 2021, 9-11am (BST)

Research in Digital East Asian Studies has grown in scale and visibility in recent years, reflecting both the establishment of digital humanities initiatives in the region and increasing awareness of the limitations of digital tools developed in an anglophone context. Whether historic or contemporary, this research has to address a unique set of circumstances including the digitisation and OCR challenges presented by non-Latin scripts more broadly, different encoding standards, uneven availability of digital datasets/corpora, regional differences in how digital research is articulated, and variation in institutional embeddings for East Asian studies outside of the region. The field draws on a complex array of transdisciplinary, cross-regional and multilingual approaches which may be difficult to distil succinctly, but which offer an important counterpoint to anglophone digital research.

In this panel, four leading scholars in East Asian studies offer their perspectives on a range of questions, including the following:

What have been the main scholarly achievements of digital East Asian studies in recent years?

What are the key social, technical and/or epistemological challenges for the field right now?

How do the different regional interpretations of ‘digital humanities/digital studies’ in the region, and the different institutional embeddings of ‘East Asian studies’ outside the region facilitate or complicate collaborative research on this topic?

To what extent are East Asian languages and scripts served by existing digital infrastructures, international standards and supposedly ‘language-neutral’ digital methods, and to what extent is a regional/localised approach necessary? 

How should digital methods in East Asian studies be taught? What examples of best practice exist currently, and how do they combine the study of language and culture?

Registration is free but please book in advance at the following link to be given access to the seminar: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24079.

Speakers:

CJ Chen (Nanjing University)

Hilde De Weerdt (Leiden University)

Lik Hang Tsui (City University of Hong Kong)

Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo)

Speaker bios:

CJ Chen （陈静）

Jing Chen is an associate professor of the School of Art at Nanjing University in China. She received her PhD from Nanjing University in 2009. After her PhD she has worked at the Institute of Art and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. Her research focuses on image and new media studies, especially visual knowledge production in digital media transformations. She began publishing on digital humanities in Chinese and English from 2013 and her digital projects include the Ephemera Project, Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive, the Virtual Museum of the Grand Canal of China and ZHI艺, a digital museum of intangible heritage of Chinese craftsmanship. She is an editorial member of International Journal of Digital Archiving and Digital Humanities,Digital Humanities (Tsinghua University),Digital Humanities Research (Renmin University of China). She is also the executive editor of a book series on digital humanities in China and a co-founder and co-editor of 01Lab, a Chinese academic blog on digital humanities on WeChat with over 7,000 followers.

Hilde De Weerdt（魏希德）

Hilde De Weerdt (ORCID 0000-0002-9670-674X) is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She studied Chinese and Chinese History at KU Leuven (BA) and Harvard University (PH.D.) and taught history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oxford University, and King’s College London before becoming chair of Chinese History at Leiden in 2013. She is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature. She published three volumes on medieval Chinese political culture and intellectual history (Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276), 2007; Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China, 2015; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China, 900-1400, ed., 2011). Her latest publications include an edited translation titled The Essentials of Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and a comparative history of European and Chinese political culture (Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 1000-1600, ed., Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

She maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed MARKUS, and with Mees GeleinCOMPARATIVUS. On the history and concept behind these and related digital research projects, see “Creating, Linking, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS” (Journal of Chinese History 2020).

Lik Hang Tsui（徐力恒）

Lik Hang Tsui is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong, where he convenes a research cluster on Digital Society in its College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Peking University and a doctoral degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. Before his current role he worked as a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with the China Biographical Database (CBDB). He has also held visiting appointments and fellowships at Academia Sinica, Peking University, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He specializes in middle period Chinese history and culture, as well as the digital humanities. He is currently writing a book on Song dynasty epistolary culture and planning another one on digital humanities in China. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, his research has been funded by various fellowships and grants. He currently teaches in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. He is the co-founder of 01Lab, an award-winning Chinese blog on digital humanities and culture. He also edits book reviews for Cultural History.

Kiyonori Nagasaki（永崎研宣）

Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo. His main research interest is in the development of digital frameworks for collaboration in Buddhist studies. He is also engaging in the investigation into the significance of digital methodology in the Humanities and in the promotion of DH activities in Japan. He has been participating in a number of Digital Humanities projects conducted at several institutions in Japan and abroad such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, the National Diet Library, the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, the University of Tsukuba and the University of Hamburg.
His activities also include postgraduate education in DH at the University of Tokyo as well as administrative tasks at several scholarly societies including the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. He has also engaged in international standards such as ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode), TEI Consortium, and IIIF, so that East Asian DH will be viable globally.

This series is part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by OWRI projects Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers). The series is convened by Paul Spence (King’s College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research).

Please contact [e-mail] and [e-mail] if you have any queries about this seminar or the wider series.

主编 / 陈静 徐力恒

责编 / 雨萌

美编 / 雨萌