Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization (Zhonghua Nongye Wenming Yanjiuyuan 中華農業文明研究院; hereafter, the Academy) … Continue reading Products in Local Chronicles: The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization’s 70-Year Quest for a Treasure Trove
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University … Continue reading Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here), … Continue reading Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
This is the second and final part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
This is the first part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
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