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.

Program

• Pre-conference workshops (July 8–10): Each of the 3-hour workshops will be led by experts introducing key digital methods. We also encourage project leaders to submit proposals in which they demonstrate the resources, tools, and results produced in their projects.
• Conference (July 11–12): The conference will be composed of short presentations (15–20 mins) to survey the current status of Digital East Asian Studies in Europe and beyond, spanning a wide range of fields (such as history, literature, arts, social sciences in Japanese-, Korean-, and Chinese-speaking regions), as well as the latest development in related archival institutions (libraries, museums, and archives) and infrastructural projects.

List of Confirmed Speakers (this list will be updated as more authors are confirmed)

• Cécile Armand, Aix-Marseille University
• Peter Bol, Harvard University
• Colin Brisson, CRCAO, EPHE-PSL
• Javier Cha, University of Hong Kong
• Shih-Pei Chen, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Wayne de Fremery, Dominican University of California
• Christian Göbel, University of Vienna
• Hu Heng, Renmin University of China
• Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University
• Hou-Ieong Ho, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• Alíz Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University
• Jing HU, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• Jen-jou Hung, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
• Sunkyu Lee, KU Leuven
• Sander Molenaar, International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam)
• Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities
• Thorben Pelzer, Leipzig University
• Donald Sturgeon, Durham University
• Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Academia Sinica
• Hsieh-Chang Tu, National Taiwan University
• Lyndsey Twining, The Academy of Korean Studies
• Paul Vierthaler, Williams & Mary
• Hongsu Wang, Harvard University
• Jing Xiang, Chinese Academy of Social Science
• Calvin Yeh, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science