Today we are happy to announce the schedule for the Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021, which will be held across two sessions on June 26, 2021. Attending the conference is free, but in order to receive a link and password for the Zoom session please register here.
All times in the schedule are given in Universal Coordinated Time +1 (UTC+1, alternatively known as British Summer Time, BST) in the first instance and are followed by Pacific Daylight Time (in blue), Eastern Daylight Time (in green) and Hong Kong Time (in red) in parentheses. You can also use a time converter to convert the times in the schedule to your local timezone.
The Schedule
Session 1
Chair: Mariana Zorkina
Opening Remarks: A Brief Introduction to the Digital Orientalist
07:50-08:00 UTC+1 (11:50-00:00 PDT, 02:50-03:00 EDT, 14:50–15:00 HKT)
Fully Automated Human Touch
Matt Cornell and Merinda Davies
08:00-08:25 UTC+1 (00:00-00:25 PDT, 03:00-03:25 EDT, 15:00–15:25 HKT)
Keynote Presentation 1: Photographing History
08:25-08:50 UTC+1 (00:25-00:50 PDT, 03:25-03:50 EDT, 15:25–15:50 HKT)
Lexeme-based computational dating approaches for Literary Chinese Texts
08:50-09:20 UTC+1 (00:50-01:20 PDT, 03:50-04:20 EDT, 15:50–16:20 HKT)
Text Mining with ctext.org’s Text Tools
09:20-09:45 UTC+1 (01:20-01:45 PDT, 04:20-04:45 EDT, 16:20–16:45 HKT)
Keynote Presentation 2: Software Use in AnonymClassic
09:45-10:10 UTC+1 (01:45-02:10 PDT, 04:45-05:10 EDT, 16:45–17:10 HKT)
Wrapping Up and Final Questions for Session 1
10:10-10:30 UTC+1 (02:10-02:30 PDT, 05:10-05:30 EDT, 17:10–17:30 HKT)
Session 2
Chair: Maddalena Poli
Opening of the Second Session
13:10-13:15 UTC+1 (05:10-05:15 PDT, 08:10-08:15 EDT, 20:10–20:15 HKT)
Keynote Presentation 3: Digital Humanities in Japanese Studies: State of the Field
13:15-13:40 UTC+1 (05:15-05:40 PDT, 08:15-08:40 EDT, 20:15–20:40 HKT)
Computational Methods to Reconstruct Fragmentary Manuscripts
13:40-14:05 UTC+1 (05:40-06:05 PDT, 08:40-09:05 EDT, 20:40–21:05 HKT)
Keynote Presentation 4: The Qing Emperor’s Hindustan Jades: IIIF, QGIS, and Leaflet as Tools for Digital Art History
14:05-14:30 UTC+1 (06:05-06:30 PDT, 09:05-09:30 EDT, 21:05–21:30 HKT)
Navigating Digital Collections on Chinese Studies Using New ArcGIS Tools
Yan He, Sophie Muro, Ann James, and Ka Hang Ngau
14:30-14:55 UTC+1 (06:30-06:55 PDT, 09:30-09:55 EDT, 21:30–21:55 HKT)
LDA Topic Modeling in Sanskrit with ToPān and Metallō
15:00-15:25 UTC+1 (07:00-07:25 PDT, 10:00-10:25 EDT, 22:00–22:25 HKT)
Coffee Break
Introducing HanziFinder, a Hanzi Substructure Search Engine
Jennifer Ball and Xu Chao
16:00-16:25 UTC+1 (08:00-08:25 PDT, 11:00-11:25 EDT, 23:00–23:25 HKT)
On the Technology of the Sublime in Modern Chinese Narratives
16:25-16:50 UTC+1 (08:25-08:50 PDT, 11:25-11:50 EDT, 23:25–23:50 HKT)
Keynote Presentation 5: The Database of Religious History — Browsing and Visualizing the World’s Religions
M. Willis Monroe and Matthew Hamm
16:50-17:15 UTC+1 (08:50-09:15 PDT, 11:50-12:15 EDT, 23:50–00:15 HKT)
The clichés, the in-jokes, the duplicates: finding intertextuality in Tang poetry
17:15-17:40 UTC+1 (09:15-09:40 PDT, 12:15-12:40 EDT, 00:15–00:40 HKT)
Concluding Remarks and Final Questions for Session 2
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