Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities (PDF)

The Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, will be held at Leiden University on July 6-9, 2016. The 4-day programme consists of hands-on sessions in textual analysis and humanities visualization and is intended for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers without a prior background in the digital humanities. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own research and discuss the pros and cons of engaging with different kinds of digital methods.

There is no registration fee. All accommodation costs and meals will be covered for participants. Only travel within the European region can be reimbursed (maximum subsidies of 200 € p.p.).


How to apply

To participate, send an application consisting of your CV, a brief research proposal, and, if applying as a student, one letter of recommendation to Ms. Monica Chen at [email protected] by Friday, March 11, 2016 (Closed).


Programme (PDF)

July 6 - Wednesday

8:30-8:45

Registration

8:45-9:00

Welcome and introduction

9:00-12:30

Textual and Image Markup

Christian Wittern, Professor of the Center for Informatics in East-Asian Studies of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto

UniversityLipsius, room 126A 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:45

Sources and Data Management

Michelle van den Berk, Subject Librarian, Leiden University Library

Fieke Schoots, Subject Librarian, Leiden University Library

Lipsius, room 126A

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:50

Funding Research Proposals

Anke Klerkx, Director of the Grant Development Team, the knowledge exchange office of Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center

Lipsius, room 126A

18:00-19:30

Dinner for all participants

19:30-21:00

Participant Proposals - click participants' names to see their posters

Fleur Chabaille
Gesa Stupperich
Ishayahu Landa
Jon Chappell
Julie Yue
Liu Jialong
Marcin Tomasz Damek
Samuel Pittman
Tom Mazanec

Arsenaal, main hall

July 7 - Thursday

9:00-10:45

Text Mining

Liu Chao-Lin 劉昭麟, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University

Lipsius, room 126A

10:45-12:30

Text Mining

Paul Vierthaler, Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of History Department, Boston College

Lipsius, room 126A

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-17:50

(15 min. coffee break at 15:45)

 

Database Design Quantitative Analysis

Michael Fuller, Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of California, Irvine

Lipsius, room 126A

18:00-19:30

Dinner break

19:30-21:00

Participant Proposals - click participants' names to see their posters

Ganna Dashchenko
Giray Fidan
Julia Escher
Kin Shing Chan
Lan-Yi Yang
Nicholas Frisch
Tana Dluhosova
Thomas Van Hoey
Tilman Schalmey
Wonhee Cho

Arsenaal, main hall

July 8 - Friday

9:00-12:30

Spatial Analysis

Chu Ping-Tzu 祝平次, Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University

Lipsius, room 126A

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-17:50

(15 min. coffee break at 15:45)

 

Network Analysis

Allon Wagner, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel-Aviv University

Lipsius, room 126A

18:00-19:30

Dinner break

19:30-21:00

Participant Proposals - click participants' names to see their posters

Elena Valussi
Glenn Douglas Tiffert
Huayan Wang
Jiashuo Zhang
Jiyan Qiao
Mariana Zorkina
Shueh-Ying Liao
Wenyi Huang
Xiong Hueilan
Yanrong Chen

Arsenaal, main hall

July 9 - Saturday

9:00-10:45

Text Analysis with MARKUS

Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies, Leiden University

Brent Ho, Communication and Empire Project Research Associate, Leiden University

Lipsius, room 126 A

10:45-12:30

Data Sharing and Legal Questions

Damiaan van Eeten, Subject Librarian, Leiden University Library

Lipsius, room 126 A

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Concluding Discussion

Lipsius, room 126 A

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