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.
In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within … Continue reading Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library
This guest contribution was written by Dr. Stephanie Santschi, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich’s Department … Continue reading Think Tasks Not Tools: Teaching AI Literacy in East Asian Art History
Welcome back to another year at The DO! This post kicks off the beginning of the 2025/26 year! Before looking … Continue reading Introducing The DO 2025/26 Team
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members for the 2025-2026 academic … Continue reading CFA: Join the DO Team 2025/26
In my previous discussion, I examined AKU-PAL, the palaeographical database for hieratic script among ancient Egyptian writing systems. This article … Continue reading The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project: A Digital Repository of Ancient Egyptian Demotic Script and Text Corpora
This is part three of a three-part series on the biases about Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. In this final part, I planned to discuss how Hellenistic Central Asia was biased in conversational AI models, such as ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.0, but newer “Deep Research” functions have since replaced and exponentially increased the capabilities of those legacy models. Continue reading Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 3: Deep Research
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson … Continue reading Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
Part 1 can be read here. The Zaibatsu had dominated Japanese business and industry for decades before WWII. They monopolised … Continue reading Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 2): Private Capital and the Financing of Historical SMEs
The following is the schedule of the Digital Orientalist’s 2025 Virtual Conference “AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study … Continue reading “AI and the Digital Humanities” The Schedule for DO’s Virtual Conference 2025
Last October 2024, I had the great privilege to be invited to give a paper at “The International Conference on … Continue reading Beyond Artificial Intelligence: Human Recognition of a Syriac Fragment in Turfan
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