The ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History (RegInfra) and KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group are organizing a reading seminar in cooperation with Dr. Javier Cha (The University of Hong Kong) at KU Leuven, LETT 05.30, on September 3, 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00. The theme of the reading seminar is Big Data Studies, or: An Analytical Bibliography of Web 2.0 Infrastructures.
Required Readings
Cha, Javier. 2023. “Big Data Studies: The Humanities in Uncharted Waters.” Korean Studies 47: 274-299. https://doi.org/10.1353/ks.2023.a908625.
Cha, Javier and Ian M. Miller. [forthcoming in 2025]. “Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Accepted.)
Additional Readings
Chen, Sophia. “How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown.” Nature vol. 639,8053 (2025): 22-24. doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00616-z