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Digital Humanities (DH) is an emerging research paradigm that brings computational methods to the humanities, arts, and social sciences, driven by the abundance of digitized and born-digital research materials. In Europe, DH has drawn significant attention from scholars, institutions, and research-funding agencies over the past decade, leading to numerous national and pan-European projects creating digital resources and infrastructures for DH scholarship. The significance of digital humanities is underscored by a variety of annual conferences such as DH Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), DHD (Digital Humanities in German-speaking areas), and the European Association for Digital Humanities (pan-European). The International DH Conference, held every two to three years in Europe, further demonstrates a strong European interest in DH.

However, European East Asianists have yet to find a dedicated space for effectively exchanging and discussing knowledge on digitally processing and analyzing research materials in East Asian languages. While scholars within each sub-discipline may be very familiar with each other’s work, Europe is still lacking a research community that addresses digital scholarship issues across all humanities disciplines concerned with East Asian regions and languages.

This conference aims to survey the current state of digital scholarship in East Asian Studies within Europe, to build a European community for East Asian scholars interested in digital scholarship, and to offer a platform for European scholars to obtain knowledge about key methods and resources created in cutting-edge digital projects in East Asian Studies worldwide.

The conference receives additional funding from the DFG (German Research Foundation).

Program: Workshops (July 8-10, 2024)

July 8    July 9     July 10

Due to the highly practical nature of Digital Scholarship, we have organized 14 workshops over the course of 3 days. Each of the 3-hour workshops will be led by experts introducing key digital methods or for projects to showcase their results. For the complete program and abstracts, please see this file. 

July 8:

• Workshop 1. COMARKUS: Exporting data in context
  — Sander Molenaar (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
• Workshop 2. Sinographic Historical Documents Automatic Transcription
  — Colin Brisson (Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris)
• Workshop 3. Creating a Data Model and Annotating Images in IMMARKUS
  — Sunkyu Lee (KU Leuven)
• Workshop 4. Leveraging Large-Scale Historical Databases with HistText
  — Christian Henriot (Aix-Marseille University) & Cécile Armand (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

July 9:

• Workshop 5. Digital Editions of East Asian Sources
  — Duncan Paterson (Berlin State Library)
• Workshop 6: Quantitative Analysis on Licensed Materials
• 6a: Leveraging CrossAsia N-gram Service for DH Research
  — Hou Ieong Brent HO (Berlin State Library)
• 6b: Treating a Genre as a Knowledge System with LoGaRT
  — Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
• Workshop 7. Algorithmic Identification and Elucidation of Intertextual Networks in Digital East Asian Corpora
  — Jeffrey Tharsen (University of Chicago)
• Workshop 8. Building a Database for Text-Aligned Reading with DocuSky
  — Hsieh-Chang Tu (National Taiwan University)

July 10:

• Workshop 9. A practical introduction to topic modelling
  — Christian Göbel (University of Vienna)
• Workshop 10. Social Network Analysis with Gephi: Theory and Practice
  — Song Chen (Bucknell University)
• Workshop 11. Utilising Prosopographic Databases for Sequence and Spatial Analysis
  — Thorben Pelzer (Leipzig University)
• Workshop 12. Integrating ChatGPT into Humanities Research 
  — Calvin Yeh (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) & Xiang Jing (University of Chinese Social Sciences)
• Workshop 13. China Biographical Database Workshop: Advancing Chinese Studies through Database Development and Prosopography Research 
  — Hongsu Wang & Peter Bol (Harvard University)
• Workshop 14. Text and data mining with the Chinese Text Project 
  — Donald Sturgeon (Durham University)

Program: Conference (July 11-12, 2024)

The program will be announced by July 1st.