Penn State University invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 3-7, 2019. This year’s Institute, co-directed by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (UC-Irvine) and Jonathan E. Abel (Penn State), focuses on the topic of “Digital Asias.”

Institute participants spend a week reading and thinking about the annual theme, as we…[Read more]

Hi all, just tooting my own horn a bit here. If you’re attending MLA this year and would like to hear me briefly talk about teaching “East Asian DH” last spring, please come by my panel at 3:30 on Thursday Jan 3! I would love your feedback and hope to see you there. Details:

089: What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities: Curriculum and…[Read more]

I’ve uploaded a copy of my dataset on Chinese religious reconstructions in modern China to CORE. This data was previously available on Harvard Dataverse but I thought I would copy it here in case it is of interest to group members.

Yesterday I had my students do 5-minute talks about their final projects, with 5-minute Q&A between each. There were a total of 9 presentations. They complained about this time limit much more than I expected, arguing that they’ll “never have a 5-minute conference presentation.” Au contraire! This is becoming much more common, especially at DH…[Read more]