Recent Events

On 27 January, Prof. Hilde De Weerdt, Dr. Rainer Simon, Dr. Sunkyu Lee and Dawn Zhuang presented a workshop titled “Annotating and Transcribing IIIF Images with IMMARKUS” at IIIF 2026 online meeting.

Dr. Yuan-Heng Mao presented his paper, "Reading Infrastructure Seasonally: An Exploration on Roads and Roadwork in Ming and Qing China," at the 2025 International Conference on Ming-Qing Studies in Taipei on December 12, 2025.

Wangzhi Xi presented her paper, "A Hybrid Digital Pipeline for Extracting Event Data from Infrastructure Inscriptions in Ming-Qing China," at the 2025 International Conference on Ming-Qing Studies, Academia Sinica in Taipei on December 12, 2025.

On December 11, Dr. Sunkyu Lee will lead a workshop titled “Image Sources and Digital Annotation in Historical Research” for Ph.D. students in the History Department at KU Leuven.

On November 24, Prof. Hilde de Weerdt will present “Infrastructures and Chinese County and Prefectural Maps” at the MacLean–KU Leuven workshop “How Did They tu It?”