Post the D-SEA: Highlights from the European Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies Conference

From July 8 to 12, the Berlin State Library and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science jointly organized the workshops and conference “Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies.” This event brought together 121 participants from 19 countries and was hosted at the Berlin State Library.

The pre-conference workshops, held from July 8 to 10, featured 14 diverse sessions covering various digital humanities topics. These included digital annotation, OCR, N-gram analysis, social network analysis, textual analysis, topic modeling, spatial analysis, and ChatGPT, among others. We also invited teams from leading DH projects to provide training on the use of digital platforms developed by each project, such as CBDB, DocuSky, MARKUS, CText, HistText, CrossAsia, and LoGaRT.

The main conference sessions took place on July 11 and 12, where 66 scholars from Europe, East Asia, and the USA presented cutting-edge research in digital humanities. The sessions also included reviews of DH developments both within and outside Europe, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state of DH in various regions and fields of study. On the second day of the conference, the event concluded with a highly engaging roundtable discussion on “Reflections on Deep Learning & Generative AI,” which garnered significant attention from the participants.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to all the speakers and participants for traveling to Berlin and contributing to the event’s success. We would also like to extend our gratitude to the DFG (German Research Foundation), the sponsor of this event, for their generous support.

Workshhop: Integrating ChatGPT into Humanities Research by Calvin Yeh (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

Prof. Peter Bol (Harvard University) was presenting the Digital Humanities and Chinese Studies at the opening ceremony