Dawn Zhuang - The Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures

21/09/2026 Building Agentic AI Systems for the Humanities

The ERC project RegInfra and KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group are organizing a presentation and discussion with Prof. Jeffrey Tharsen (The University of Chicago). The talk is titled Building Agentic AI Systems for the Humanities.

Dawn Zhuang

Sep 2, 2026

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25/07/2026 New Perspectives on Chinese Infrastructural History: Locating Infrastructures across Cartographic, Literary, Reporting and Commemorative Multi-Media Genres

On July 25, the RegInfra and InfraLives team presented a double panel titled "New Perspectives on Chinese Infrastructural History: Locating Infrastructures across Cartographic, Literary, Reporting and Commemorative Multi-Media Genres" at the EACS conference 2026 in Venice.

Dawn Zhuang

Jul 25, 2026

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01/07/2026 Working with Manuscripts and Sharing Annotations in IMMARKUS

On July 1, Professor Hilde De Weerdt presented "Working with Manuscripts and Sharing Annotations in IMMARKUS" at the workshop "Analysis of the materiality of manuscripts and data sharing", organized by the Cluster 2 Biblissima in Paris.

Dawn Zhuang

Jul 1, 2026

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Introduction to Mapping Urban Landscapes: Spatial and Visual Perspectives on the Materiality of City Walls in Chinese and European History

I. Stojević. and H. C. Taubes (2026) ‘Introduction’. Journal of

Dawn Zhuang

Jun 26, 2026

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Computational Infrastructure History: Event Extraction and Analysis of Late Imperial Chinese Commemorative Inscriptions

Xi, W. “Computational Infrastructure History: Event Extraction and Analysis of Late Imperial Chinese Commemorative Inscriptions.” PH.D. dissertation. KU Leuven. In progress.

Dawn Zhuang

Jun 25, 2026

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