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Hilde De Weerdt
@hildedw.bsky.social
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Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 8d
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 8d
Sorry to miss Beijing Forum on AI next week, but glad to be in Paris tomorrow afternoon for a retrospective on 4 years of DISTAM, a French network on Digital Research for African and Asian Area Studies, led by Prof. Marie Bizais-Lillig
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
Distam :“Fouille de texte et TAL en études aréales” le 3 novembre au Pôle des langues et civilisations (Paris)
Le consortium propose le 3 novembre une synthèse des travaux effectués au cours des quatre années passées ainsi que les perspectives d’exploitation des corpus textuels envisagés dans le cadre d’une pr...
distam.hypotheses.org

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 16d
en doen dat zowel door vertalen van Chinees werk naar het Engels via bestaande en eigen kanalen als door steun voor Chinees taalonderwijs. Maar idd cultureel is het opboksen tegen Japan en Korea.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 16d
In China wordt al een paar decennia heel veel uit het Engels vertaald naar het Chinees. Er ligt in de wetenschappelijke wereld een sterke nadruk op internationale publicaties, en dat is vooral Engels. De overheden zetten ook in op culturele zichtbaarheid mondiaal

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 18d
Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities
Participants looking at the screen that shows a slide with maps.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19d
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19d
CFP for a workshop to be held in Leuven in September 2026 on Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities 1700–2000 - deadline: Jan 2026
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
CFP: Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000
A workshop organised by Leuven, Ghent, and Utrecht. Co-funded by HSHH and the ERC project Global Academies.
hshh.ugent.be

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 24d
November 23 is open science day. Come check out what research is going on at universities across Flanders. As part of the offerings in Leuven we're conducting 2 30-minute workshops on working with high-quality digital images in the arts. Register here www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten... #DVDW
KU Leuven - Ga op digitale schattenjacht en word een wereldverzamelaar! - Op Locatie - Dag van de Wetenschap
Ontdek het uitgebreide aanbod aan activiteiten van Dag van de Wetenschap. En goed nieuws: heel wat digitale Dag van de Wetenschap-activiteiten blijven immers gewoon online staan. Voortaan is het dus e...
www.dagvandewetenschap.be

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 24d
Oct 23 1-3pm we're conducting a workshop on semantic image annotation at the LECTIO institute for intellectual history from Antiquity through early modern times. The workshop is open to all. Participants can join in person or online but need to register from this site www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...

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Dag van de Wetenschap @dagvandewetenschap.bsky.social · Oct 9
Wetenschap is overal en we tellen af naar de 15de Dag van de Wetenschap op zondag 23 november 2025.

Vrijdag 10/10 om 10u10 komen honderden activiteiten online www.dagvandewetenschap.be.

Dompel je onder en stippel jouw ideale #dvdw2025 uit met jouw eigen profiel.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Oct 8
Tenure track prof in Contemporary Middle East Studies KU Leuven
Unlike many European universities, Leuven has a tenure track system; university & faculty management are elected. There is a startup fund of 110,000€. Leuven has a sabbatical policy.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Tenure track professor in Contemporary Middle East Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)
The East Asian and Arabic Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time tenure-track professor (ZAP) in contemporary Middle East Studies. The professorship will commence on ...
www.kuleuven.be

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Oct 1
New in #IMMARKUS: when you import a #IIIF manifest, IMMARKUS now imports existing annotations (embedded or referenced) into your workspace.

We'd love to test with real-world examples. If you know of IIIF collections with annotations, let us know. Annotated manifests still seem rare in the wild...

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Sep 20
informatief interview met historicus Beatrice de Graaf waarin ze het besluit van de meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie te kenmerken scherp veroordeelt.

www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
Beatrice de Graaf: Antifa-besluit Tweede Kamer is ‘een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken’
‘Een schok’, zo noemt Beatrice de Graaf het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om de Antifa-beweging als terroristische organisatie aan te merken.
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 19
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.'
barackobama.bsky.social Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · Sep 16
RIP Robert Redford, who famously and beautifully brought Norman Maclean’s *A River Runs Through It* to the big screen:
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.
buff.ly

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 15
so you can zoom in the tiniest of details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--I added a screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 15
If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
Forms & Function
dpul.princeton.edu

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 14
"drastic plans to halve the intake of humanities students at one of China’s most prestigious institutions, Fudan University, divided opinions among scholars." Has anyone seen more on this?

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 14
From the supposed advocates of freedom of speech and the supposed critics of "cancel culture": target lists continued.

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Maia George @maiageorge.bsky.social · Sep 14
"The website also echoes back to Kirk-founded [...] “Professor Watchlist,” whose purpose was to unmask what it called “radical professors,” but often led to harassment and violent threats directed toward people named on that list."

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/13/b...
People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. It looks like a coordinated effort | CNN Business
Dozens of social media posts and messages about the murder of Charlie Kirk, including some that celebrated his death, are being spotlighted by conservative activists, Republican elected officials and ...
edition.cnn.com

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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · Sep 12
China has unveiled a new plan to accelerate highered alignment with national priorities - but some academics & students expressed concern at the sweeping restructuring, Amber Wang reports from Beijing
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
New plan to speed up HE alignment with national priorities
China has unveiled a new plan that goes further and faster in aligning higher education with national economic and strategic priorities. Its issue by ...
www.universityworldnews.com

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 9
Very pleased to see The Young Academy's important report on First Generation Academics published as a book. Hoping that this coming academic year will be better for all, including first generation academics!

To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Sep 8
We just released IMMARKUS 1.0 - our first full release!

An open-source tool for semantic image annotation: multi-image workbench, AI-powered selection tools, ontology builder, knowledge graph, #IIIF support.

Runs fully local–no login, no-signups, no data sent to the cloud!

👉 immarkus.xmarkus.org
IMMARKUS
An image annotation environment for the MARKUS platform. Developed by Prof. Dr. Hilde De Weerdt, Dr. Rainer Simon, Dr. Lee Sunkyu, Dr. Iva Stojević, Meret Meister, and Xi Wangzhi with funding from the...
immarkus.xmarkus.org

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Sep 5
On international enrollment in NL: "The decline is particularly noticeable in the Language and Culture sectors (-28.5 per cent), Law (-25.0 per cent), Science (-12.5 per cent), Behaviour & Society (-16 per cent), and Economics (-4.0 per cent)." 😮

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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · Aug 29
Will the cabinet reshuffle in the #Netherlands affect #highered internationalisation? Jan Petter Myklebust reports
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Will the reshuffle affect internationalisation work?
The resignation of several ministers from the Dutch government, including Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp and Eppo Bruins, Minister of Education, Cul...
www.universityworldnews.com

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Aug 28
-- reproducing Yuan paper bills in real time with my LUCA Brussels colleague Peter De Roy.

For now it is in German, English subtitles to follow. You can also try using AI translators for Youtube or use a translation app on your mobile.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Aug 28
“Stimmt es, dass Tausch die erste Währung war?” (“Was barter the first form of currency?”) is now online in the ARTE Mediathek – and also on YouTube. I had great fun contributing a small part on the first production of paper #money (esp. 12.45-15.15 minutes)

youtu.be/W9f51gaShNI?...
War Tauschhandel die erste Form der Währung? | Stimmt es, dass... | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTEde
youtu.be

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Aug 25
Seminar​: An Analytical Bibliography of Web 2.0 Infrastructures​​

Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2025​

Time: 10:00–12:00​

More info and reading list: ​

www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/03-09...
03/09/2025 An Analytical Bibliography of Web 2.0 Infrastructures
The ERC project RegInfra and KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group are organizing a reading seminar in cooperation with Dr. Javier Cha (The University of Hong Kong). The theme of the reading s...
www.infrastructurelives.eu

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Aug 25
Coming up in Leuven next week:

Workshop​: Structures of Descent: Neo4j-Enabled Readings of Intergenerational Mobility and Marriage in Premodern Korea ​

Date: Monday, 1 September 2025​

Time: 15:00–17:00​

More info:​

www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/1-9-2...