Recent Events

Prof. Hilde De Weerdt gave a guest lecture entitled Remodeling Chinese Infrastructural History: Sources, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica on December 6, 2024.

Professor Hilde De Weerdt will present a keynote titled "Contextual Text and Image Annotation and Analysis with AI Assistance: Challenges and Prospects" at the 15th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH 2024) on December 1, 2024.

Wangzhi Xi will lead a workshop titled Leveraging Large Language Models for Classical Chinese Language Processing at the 15th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH 2024) on November 29, at National Taiwan Normal University.

This conference invites scholars from various fields of inquiry, including history, historical anthropology, art history, archaeology, religious studies, and digital humanities, to explore the use of epigraphic sources in comparative and transregional histories of infrastructures.

On November 4, participants discussed how walls did (or did not) matter, both ideologically and practically, to the actors involved in negotiating construction projects.