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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · May 21
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We are thrilled to share the first of our #proceedings from our conference on “AI and the Digital Humanities” held earlier this year.

Enes Yılandiloğlu’s “Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient” explores digital #cartography, deep #mapping, and #NER.

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November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A reminder that we're still accepting applications to join our social media team - the deadline is November 30! 📆
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📢 We're seeking #volunteers to join our social media team!

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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢 Part 2 of Ishembieva Aizat’s series on the #Olufsen Collection is out now! It reflects on Esther Fihl’s re-examination of the collection, which bridges the gap between #archival data and #anthropological understanding.

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#centralasianstudies #GLAM
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In our latest post, James H. Morris introduces English-language resources that he uses when #teaching about #Shinto. Many are well-known, but Morris also comments on how they can be practically included within the #classroom and in assignments.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Our November newsletter is out now! Catch up on our recent posts, other publications from our contributors, announcements, and more:

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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky
Call for Papers 13th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8-10 June 2026 Saint Louis University Representing the Past: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History Organizers: Thomas Morin, Saint Louis University, and Margaret Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Increasing reliance on surrogates has transformed historians' avenues for inquiry and methodologies for interpreting information. The creation of digital surrogates has increased access to historical materials, but also raises questions about representation, conservation, and democratization. Parallel to these developments, the production of physical replicas of historical objects has also expanded immensely in the last several decades, bringing with it new teaching tools and research aids. But the production of these material surrogates has also heightened the tensions between access and authenticity. These replicas, both in the physical and digital spheres, have opened new paths and discussions about how scholars engage with history both academically and pedagogically, and in public spaces.   These sessions invite papers that explore the creation, use, and interpretation of surrogates in historical practice. How do digital and material surrogates mediate the relationship between researchers, objects, and audiences? How do they complement or challenge one another as forms of preservation and interpretation? We welcome contributions that address the processes of surrogate creation, the theoretical and ethical dimensions of representation, and the role of surrogates in pedagogy, public history, and digital humanities.   By bringing together scholars working across media, these panels seek to create dialogue on how historical knowledge is shaped through acts of reproduction, translation, and substitution. Prospective presenters should email their 100-200 word proposals to either thomas.morin@slu.edu or margars@siue.edu by 15 December 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Save the date! The 2026 Annual Event will take place at the University of Southampton on 15-16 June 2026. This year's theme is ‘Sustainability’.

We are excited to share more information about the event, including the call for papers, in the coming weeks.
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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@madpoli.bsky.social introduces Home In Mists – Oversea Edition 白雲深處人家海外站, a website hosting digitised #Daoist texts alongside a range of resources useful to anyone working in the field of premodern textual studies within #Sinology.

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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📢 Call for Reviewers: #DH2026 Daejeon
Join us in shaping the conference program!
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November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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We want to promote your work!

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digitalorientalist.bsky.social The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · Sep 24
Do you work with #DH to streamline your workflow?

Do you work with databases or tools that you think are great for research, but not well-known?

The #DO accepts guest pieces on a rolling basis.

Submit your work, and give your work visibility #submissions #openacess
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October 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Resource: The Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan: A Brief (Re-?)Introduction
The Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan: A Brief (Re-?)Introduction
I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to the post, I began exploring some of the tools that the organization has develope…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The first Editor's Digest of the 25/26 year is out now! 📚

Editor for Northeast Asian Studies, James Harry Morris, introduces some of the contributions he has particularly enjoyed over the past year.

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#koreanstudies #japanesestudies #digitalhumanities
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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#tbt to Brian Tsz Ho Wong's first DO post about teaching network analysis at @edcdcs.bsky.social - focusing on the challenges of using East Asian historical sources and availability of usable data.

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#digitalhumanities #networkanalysis #researchtools
Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh, I had the opportunity to teach two courses on network analysis. The fi…
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October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Applications are now open for the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian and Islamic Collections.

For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November.

#persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🔍 Saniya Irfan examines the infrastructural biases of #NLP tools for South Asian languages, using her work with #Urdu poetry to show how computational methods reproduce colonial hierarchies in knowledge production.

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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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CFP deadline reminder: all submissions for the Asian Studies Conference Japan annual meeting are due by Friday, October 31! Submit your proposal by then to be considered for the July 4-5 conference at Sophia University.
Proposal Submission Forms
IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL SUBMITTERS. PLEASE READ FIRST:Starting this year, the Executive Committee is implementing changes to the online panel and roundtable proposal entry forms and to the conference…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Today's post was inspired by @madpoli.bsky.social's recent piece that maps out tools and resources for East Asian Studies featured in The DO 👇

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October 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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In this overview, Editor in Chief Rachael Griffiths highlights #digital tools and resources for Central and South Asian Studies reviewed by The DO members in past contributions ✨

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October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#OTD in 2021, Elizabeth Bishop's “Decolonize University-Based Journals” introduced readers to Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) - a model for #openaccess publishing in North Africa 📖🌍

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Decolonize University-Based Journals
The Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) is an electronic publishing platform developed and managed by the Research Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST) of the Ministry …
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October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In today's post, Ephrem Aboud Ishac writes about using #AI to visually reconstruct and complete partially damaged or fragmented #Syriac manuscripts, exploring its benefits and the ethical obligations involved.

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Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Sy…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This week James Harry Morris explores the Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and #Humanities in #Japan highlighting it as a source for those engaged in #Japanese studies to discover resources and projects that they may have previously missed 👇

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October 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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#tbt to this 2021 article by Shiva Mihan and Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes on examples of fingernail art - a minimalist artform that flourished in Iran in the 19th century - preserved at @labnf.bsky.social

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Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study…
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October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.

🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/

🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities

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Benchmarking in Digital Humanities | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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October 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM