In collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, the East Asian Studies Center presents a Midwestern Professionalization Seminar in East Asian Studies with guest speakers:
Javier Cha
Seoul National University, Assistant Professor
Goryeo and Choson Korea
Paula Curtis
Yale University, Postdoc
Medieval Japan
Xin Yu
Washington University, St. Louis, ABD
Early Modern China
Our guest speakers will discuss how to use digital methods in research and teaching and more as a means to advance one's academic career. Please register here for your link to attend this event. We would like to know more about your experiences with digital humanities to help tailor the event to your needs. Please fill out our brief survey here.
Suggested reading for the workshop: Digital humanities and East Asian studies in 2020 by Paul Vierthaler.
Javier Cha bio: forthcoming
Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan. She is presently a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in History at Yale University with the Council on East Asian Studies. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. She also works on the history of documentary forgery in premodern Japan. In addition, Dr. Curtis collaborates in several online projects, including the Digital Humanities Japan initiative; an online database for digital resources related to East Asia; the blog What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies; and the digital archive Carving Community: The Landis-Hiroi Collection.
Xin Yu is a PhD candidate in history at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include book history, social history, and grassroots knowledge production in late imperial China. His dissertation examines the emergence and maturation of a book genre—the family genealogy—between 1450 and 1644. Combining close and distant readings of a dataset of over 400 genealogies, his work traces the development of the genealogy genre across time and space, maps the social networks of genealogy production, and enriches our understandings of print culture in late imperial China.
If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact Stephanie Metzger at metzger.235@osu.edu or 614-247-4725. Requests made at least two weeks in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
