East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities focuses on current and emerging digital projects and methods for East Asian studies, which use primary sources written in classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. While it is open to all disciplines and areas of interest, it is recommended that participants have reading knowledge of at least one of these languages specific to their own work. The workshop will include a broad overview of the state of the field, presentations of methods and hands-on sessions with tools and projects, and active discussion about pedagogy, self-directed learning, and future directions for DH research and projects in East Asian studies. Because East Asian studies encompasses a wide range of methods, we will cover topics ranging from corpus preparation and text analysis to OCR, IIIF, network analysis, and digital resources relevant to materials in these languages.
This is an introductory workshop geared toward those with little to no DH experience and will prioritize applications from graduate students, postdocs, contingent faculty, and faculty developing departmental curricula. Advanced scholars may also apply to the summer program, but please be aware that the cap is 25 participants and early career applications will be prioritized. Those who have attended previous East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities Dream Labs are not eligible to apply again.
Schedule:
June 9-12, 11:00 AM – 3:30 pm EST (with half hour lunch break)
Sessions will be 100% virtual and will not be recorded.
| To apply, please fill out the following form by no later than March 7th, 2025, 8pm EST: https://forms.gle/JyDLUbvN4f6hzquY8
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EAS DH Dream Lab Leaders:
Dr. Paul Vierthaler is an assistant professor of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University. He has previously taught Chinese literature at William & Mary and the digital humanities at Leiden University (where he helped establish the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities). His first monograph project tracks how historical information in late imperial China was transmitted and deformed through fiction and unofficial histories (“quasi-histories”) using traditional critical analysis and computational analytics (natural language processing, corpus linguistics, machine learning, and other data analyses). He is also working on a variety of projects at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. This includs a second monograph project focused on the late Ming novel Plum in the Golden Vase, and a set of interconnected projects studying Ming/Qing dynasty censorship, editorial practices, and their impact on the creation of large language models.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan. She is currently Operations Leader of Japan Past & Present, a project of the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. She also works on the history of documentary forgery in premodern Japan. In addition, Dr. Curtis collaborates in several online projects, including the Digital Humanities Japan initiative; an online database for digital resources related to East Asia; the blog What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies; and the digital archive Carving Community: The Landis-Hiroi Collection.
