Recent Events

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.

On 5 February, Prof. Hilde De Weerdt, Dr. Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang will present a workshop titled "Semantic Image Annotation for Art Historians" for the KU Leuven Art History Research Group.

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.