Hilde De Weerdt
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
WIth colleagues collaborating on the Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures we worked on methods & theoretical perspectives first; first results:
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Contextual Semantic Text and Image Annotation in the MARKUS Environment
dhq.digitalhumanities.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
WIth colleagues collaborating on the Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures we worked on methods & theoretical perspectives first; first results:
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
Kom langs op 23 november. Wij zijn te vinden in de Universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf 11u met een korte sessie over het verzamelen, annoteren en vertalen met AI van beeldmateriaal wereldwijd.
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
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
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Kom langs op 23 november. Wij zijn te vinden in de Universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf 11u met een korte sessie over het verzamelen, annoteren en vertalen met AI van beeldmateriaal wereldwijd.
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
Periodicals and the World
Since their inception, periodicals have travelled across regions, reporting on local and global events and developments, and shaping public discourse on wh...
events.vub.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
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
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
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
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
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
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-...
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
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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-...
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
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
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
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...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
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.
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.
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.
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.
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...
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
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
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...
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...
October 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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/
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
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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/
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.'
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
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.'
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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
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
RIP Robert Redford, who famously and beautifully brought Norman Maclean’s *A River Runs Through It* to the big screen:
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-...
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
Forms & Function
dpul.princeton.edu
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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-...
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
"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?
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...
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
September 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"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?
From the supposed advocates of freedom of speech and the supposed critics of "cancel culture": target lists continued.
"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...
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
September 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
From the supposed advocates of freedom of speech and the supposed critics of "cancel culture": target lists continued.
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...
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
September 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
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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
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
September 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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
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
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)." 😮
Will the cabinet reshuffle in the #Netherlands affect #highered internationalisation? Jan Petter Myklebust reports
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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REGISTRATION OPEN!
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
“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?...
youtu.be/W9f51gaShNI?...
War Tauschhandel die erste Form der Währung? | Stimmt es, dass... | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTEde
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August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“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?...
youtu.be/W9f51gaShNI?...
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...
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...
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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...
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...
"Daarnaast heeft het aan elke vorm van toezicht op het functioneren van Hofman ontbroken. Alleen het resultaat telde." Geldt dat niet voor alle decanen en instituutsmanagers die zich in de laatste decennia schuldig hebben gemaakt aan allerlei wangedrag @unileiden.bsky.social? Goed nieuws voor hen.
BREEK: Hoogleraar Caribische archeologie Corinne Hofman heeft zich wel degelijk schuldig gemaakt aan grensoverschrijdend gedrag en schendingen van de wetenschappelijke integriteit, oordeelt de kantonrechter. Maar toch mag de universiteit haar niet ontslaan.
www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/affai...
www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/affai...
Affaire Hofman: universiteit mag archeoloog niet ontslaan, ondanks ‘aannemelijk’ wangedrag
Hoogleraar Caribische archeologie Corinne Hofman heeft zich wel degelijk schuldig gemaakt aan grensoverschrijdend gedrag en schendingen van de wetenschappelijke integriteit, oordeelt de kantonrechter....
www.mareonline.nl
August 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Daarnaast heeft het aan elke vorm van toezicht op het functioneren van Hofman ontbroken. Alleen het resultaat telde." Geldt dat niet voor alle decanen en instituutsmanagers die zich in de laatste decennia schuldig hebben gemaakt aan allerlei wangedrag @unileiden.bsky.social? Goed nieuws voor hen.