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]

Dear all,

I would like to invite scholars ‘who map print‘ to send me links to their online projects and be featured—with link, brief description, and screen shot—on this website: Mapping Print http://openprintstudio.com/wiki/doku.php/mapping_print_project

The Mapping Print project brings together online projects that trace the history of print…[Read more]

The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]

The Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]

This is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.

An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire

From the New York…[Read more]

I kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]