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Teaching #DH in English often ignores #linguistic diversity. What happens when students use #Bengali texts with DH tools? Sunayani Bhattacharya shares thoughts from a course that directly confronted the Anglophone bias of #digitalcuration and #textanalysis.

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November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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私が大会委員長を務めました令和7年5月開催の『The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social 』誌主催国際会議「AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania」のプロシーデイングスWeb公開が進んでいます。今回はスタンフォード大学のエライネ・ライ先生による基調講演「AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies」です。閲覧無料ですので是非ご覧ください!
digitalorientalist.bsky.social The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 4d
Today we are thrilled to introduce an article based on Elaine Lai’s (@Stanford) keynote paper at the The Digital Orientalist’s Conference 2025, "AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania."

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#newpost #AIresearch #humanities&AI
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Elaine Lai is a lecturer at @Stanford. Lai specializes in the study of Buddhist tantra, and has a long history of working with #AI and #DH when researching Buddhist philosophy.

Find out more abuot Lai's work here 👇 elainejlai.com/research
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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“AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies” explores ethical concerns related to AI, asking how to ethically integrate AI in our research.

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digitalorientalist.bsky.social The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 4d
Today we are thrilled to introduce an article based on Elaine Lai’s (@Stanford) keynote paper at the The Digital Orientalist’s Conference 2025, "AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania."

Link in bio
#newpost #AIresearch #humanities&AI
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today we are thrilled to introduce an article based on Elaine Lai’s (@Stanford) keynote paper at the The Digital Orientalist’s Conference 2025, "AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania."

Link in bio
#newpost #AIresearch #humanities&AI
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#OTD 2 yrs ago!

"The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary"

A guest post by Christopher Francese at Dickinson College. He writes on the digitization of the Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum, linked below

#tbt

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The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
This is a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College [email protected] In 2016 I started assembling a team of students, scholars, an…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Remember @stesantschi.bsky.social's article that we published earlier this year?

The AI_D explored in the article has now been launched and can be accessed via the link below! 👏

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November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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We are always looking for submissions, all year around!

Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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#otd 4 yrs ago: Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword.

A post by @madpoli.bsky.social about the pros and cons of digitized data. Easy to access, but it can also mean that fewer people understand what's underneath behind it

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Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword.
Sometimes I miss watching movies with commercial interruptions, at the theater or on television. Not only were they a great way to refill your pop-corn bowl without missing anything. Advertisements…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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🚨 Last call! Registration for Digital Archipelagos 2025 closes 25 Nov.

Join us for keynotes, panels & conversations on AI, archives, data sovereignty & digital culture.

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🔗 Conference website: dha25.org

#DigitalHumanities #DHA2025
DHA2025: Registration Open
Registration is open for DHA25. Please click through to the registration site at the Australian National University to purchase your tickets.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada.

#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian
Photograph is of a document lying on a black background. The document has tears, marks and folds and has New Persian script written in black ink. There is a shelf mark on the right hand side.
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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In today's new post, James Morris introduces chorded input and its application to typing Japanese.

Corded input is new user friendly, too!
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#japaneselanguage #tools #dhinpractice #newpost
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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私が大会委員長を務めました、令和7年5月開催の『The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social 』誌主催国際会議「AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania」のプロシーデイングスWeb公開が始まりました。第一弾は、ヘルシンキ大学のエネス・イャンディログル先生による「Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient」です。閲覧無料ですので是非ご覧ください!
digitalorientalist.bsky.social The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 11d
We are thrilled to share the first of our #proceedings from our conference on “AI and the Digital Humanities” held earlier this year.

Enes Yılandiloğlu’s “Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient” explores digital #cartography, deep #mapping, and #NER.

🔗 tinyurl.com/DOConf1
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Nice post on Online Teaching Resources on Shinto at @digitalorientalist.bsky.social digitalorientalist.com/2025/11/07/o...
Online Teaching Resources on Shinto
I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources . The course provides both home and exchange students with a c…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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📜 🔍 Paper Alert ‼️ Our first Handwritten Text Recognition article about our collaborative workflow is now out in the Journal of Open Humanities Data openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

More about our project on our brand new website: www.pagantibet.com
Training for monks from the Triten Norbutse Institute with PaganTibet's PI prof Charles Ramble.
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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We are thrilled to share the first of our #proceedings from our conference on “AI and the Digital Humanities” held earlier this year.

Enes Yılandiloğlu’s “Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient” explores digital #cartography, deep #mapping, and #NER.

🔗 tinyurl.com/DOConf1
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A reminder that we're still accepting applications to join our social media team - the deadline is November 30! 📆
digitalorientalist.bsky.social The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 29d
📢 We're seeking #volunteers to join our social media team!

Help shape and expand our online presence and connect with our community.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢 Part 2 of Ishembieva Aizat’s series on the #Olufsen Collection is out now! It reflects on Esther Fihl’s re-examination of the collection, which bridges the gap between #archival data and #anthropological understanding.

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/11/11/t...

#centralasianstudies #GLAM
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In our latest post, James H. Morris introduces English-language resources that he uses when #teaching about #Shinto. Many are well-known, but Morris also comments on how they can be practically included within the #classroom and in assignments.

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/11/07/o...
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Our November newsletter is out now! Catch up on our recent posts, other publications from our contributors, announcements, and more:

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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky
Call for Papers 13th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8-10 June 2026 Saint Louis University Representing the Past: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History Organizers: Thomas Morin, Saint Louis University, and Margaret Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Increasing reliance on surrogates has transformed historians' avenues for inquiry and methodologies for interpreting information. The creation of digital surrogates has increased access to historical materials, but also raises questions about representation, conservation, and democratization. Parallel to these developments, the production of physical replicas of historical objects has also expanded immensely in the last several decades, bringing with it new teaching tools and research aids. But the production of these material surrogates has also heightened the tensions between access and authenticity. These replicas, both in the physical and digital spheres, have opened new paths and discussions about how scholars engage with history both academically and pedagogically, and in public spaces.   These sessions invite papers that explore the creation, use, and interpretation of surrogates in historical practice. How do digital and material surrogates mediate the relationship between researchers, objects, and audiences? How do they complement or challenge one another as forms of preservation and interpretation? We welcome contributions that address the processes of surrogate creation, the theoretical and ethical dimensions of representation, and the role of surrogates in pedagogy, public history, and digital humanities.   By bringing together scholars working across media, these panels seek to create dialogue on how historical knowledge is shaped through acts of reproduction, translation, and substitution. Prospective presenters should email their 100-200 word proposals to either thomas.morin@slu.edu or margars@siue.edu by 15 December 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Save the date! The 2026 Annual Event will take place at the University of Southampton on 15-16 June 2026. This year's theme is ‘Sustainability’.

We are excited to share more information about the event, including the call for papers, in the coming weeks.
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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@madpoli.bsky.social introduces Home In Mists – Oversea Edition 白雲深處人家海外站, a website hosting digitised #Daoist texts alongside a range of resources useful to anyone working in the field of premodern textual studies within #Sinology.

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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📢 Call for Reviewers: #DH2026 Daejeon
Join us in shaping the conference program!
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✅ Double-blind review
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#DH2026 #ADHO
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November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM