talks

The workshop "Quantifying Material Infrastructure in Late Imperial China," organized by the ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History took place at KU Leuven from May 18 to 21, 2026.

Professor Hilde De Weerdt is invited to present on AI and Image Annotation in IMMARKUS at the event Unveiling Digitizing Vietnam: Sino-Vietnamese Studies in the Age of AI, taken place on 18 April at the Columbia University in New York.

On 30 March, Prof. Hilde de Weerdt, Dr Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang will deliver an IMMARKUS workshop on collecting, annotating, transcribing, and analyzing IIIF images as part of IIIF-Friday hosted by meemoo, the Flemish Institute for Archives.

Dr. Sunkyu Lee presented her paper titled Mapping City Walls and Making Urban Space in Ming-Qing China at the Between the Land and the Word: Place-Making as a Mode of Knowing in Late Imperial China panel of the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Vancouver on March 14, 2026.