Programme

Materials, Media, and Methods: Digital Issues in East Asian Studies

February 3 – 5, 2023
Conference Venue: CATS 010.01.05 (Auditorium)
Online via Zoom
Note: Panel discussions will be held online with local meeting rooms reserved for streaming, special events and refreshments.
Day 1   03/02/2023
(CATS Auditorium 010.01.05)
09:30 03:30 16:30 17:30 00:30

Organizers Remarks

Fengyu Wang, Jia Xie, Shimin Zhang, and Xiaojie Chang

Welcome

Prof. Barbara Mittler

10:00 04:00 17:00 18:00 01:00

Special lecture

From 'Knowledge' to 'Knowledge Base': Towards an Open Knowledge Graph of Premodern Chinese Data
Prof. Donald Sturgeon (Durham University)

Moderator: David Sehnal, University of Heidelberg

11:30 05:30 18:30 19:30 02:30

Lunch break


13:00 07:00 20:00 21:00 04:00

PANEL 1

Digital Re-Mapping of the Conceptual and Material China

Chair: Jia Xie, University of Heidelberg

The Strange as Knowledge in Late-Imperial Leishu: Digital Tools and Methods for Conceptual Analysis
Emily Tsui, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / University of Heidelberg

Operational Strategy and Spatial Mapping of New Financial Institutions in the British Concession in Shanghai during World War II (1937-1945)
Ming Yang, Tianjin University

Towards a General Geospatial Model for the Development of Imperial Knowledge: The Case of the Wood-Oil Tree
Patrick Aberle, University of Tübingen

14:30 08:30 21:30 22:30 05:30

Coffee break


14:45 08:45 21:45 22:45 05:45

PANEL 2

Digitalization and Archival Practice in Museums

Chair: Giulia Pra Floriani, University of Heidelberg

The Construction and Application of A Bilingual Ceramic Thesaurus for Museum Collection Databases
Yi Chen, J. S. Lee Memorial Fellow (2022/2023) / The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Museum’s Endless Avenues: Challenges of Collecting Data and Publishing it in Multiple Formats
Karolin Randhahn, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Digitizing Sword Fittings Knowledge (Re)production through Digital Twins
Antje Schmidt, Fabian Schwenn, Martyna Lesniewska, and Wibke Schrape, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Day 2   04/02/2023
(CATS Auditorium 010.01.05)
09:30 03:30 16:30 17:30 00:30

PANEL 3

No Ghost, Just A Shell? Re-Producing Animation

Chair: Xiaoxin Wang, China Animation Archive Museum / University of Heidelberg

Anime-pop: Art, Visual Culture, and the Metaverse of Spectacles
Hui Wang, University of Heidelberg

Strangeness and Empathy in the Age of Digital Humanities: Exploring Animation Immersion under Binary Unification
Xu Han, Nanjing University of the Arts
Screening: Scorching Sun 烈日 (dir. Ning Hong, 5 mins)

The Encoffiner of Data
Wenqian Gao, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Screening: The Encoffiner of Data 数据入殓师 (dir. Wenqian Gao, 10 mins)

11:30 5:30 18:30 19:30 02:30

Lunch break


13:00 07:00 20:00 21:00 04:00

Special lecture

The ARC Research Space: Aiming at Perfecting a Comprehensive Digital Research Space
Prof. Ryō Akama (Ritsumeikan University)

Moderator: Katharina Rode-Kaya, University of Heidelberg

14:30 08:30 21:30 22:30 05:30

Coffee break


14:45 08:45 21:45 22:45 05:45

PANEL 4

Text and Image: Digital Approaches to Japanese Paleograph

Chair: Fengyu Wang, University of Heidelberg

Shaping Love in Woodblock Printed Text
Helen Magowan, University of Cambridge

Enhancing Digital Discoverability of Edo Period Scrapbook Visualizing Saitō Gesshin’s Book Scroll, “Shinobugusa”, through Information Visualization Methods
Luca Domenico Artuso, Ca’ Foscari University

15:45 09:45 20:45 21:45 06:45

PANEL 5

Digital Re-Imagination of Premodern Paintings

Chair: Fengyu Wang, University of Heidelberg

New Thoughts about Chinese Painting Research under the Horizon of Digital Color Restoration Technology
Feng Hong, Peking University
Chong Sun, Independent Scholar

Using Building Standards to Generate Artefacts in the Qingming shanghe tu: a Python Programming Approach
Pania Yanjie Mu, University of Heidelberg

16:45 10:45 23:45 00:45(+1) 07:45

Coffee break


17:00 11:00 00:00(+1) 01:00(+1) 08:00

Film Screening

(in cooperation with Nanjing University of the Arts)

Introduction: Maya Yonesho, Animation Director

Inu-Oh 犬王 (dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 98 mins) with discussion (30 minutes)
Moderator: Violetta Janzen, University of Heidelberg

Day 3   05/02/2023
(CATS Auditorium 010.01.05)
10:00 04:00 17:00 18:00 01:00

PANEL 6

Digital Tools for Asian Textual Corpora

Chair: Donald Sturgeon, Durham University

The CHI-KNOW-PO Corpus Explorer – Tracking Meaningful Connections Between Concept Groups in Medieval Chinese Poetry
Tilman Schalmey, Trier University
Mariana Zorkina, University of Zurich

Asian Languages and The DHARPA Software Development Project
Helena Jaskov, University of Luxembourg

New Online Tool for Critical Editions of Tibetan and Chinese
Rafal Jan Felbur, University of Heidelberg

11:30 05:30 18:40 19:40 02:30

Lunch break


13:00 07:00 20:00 21:00 04:00

Special lecture

Years of Computational Philological Analysis of the Chinese Buddhist Canon: Reflections on Lessons Learned (and Not Learned)
Prof. Michael Radich (University of Heidelberg)

Moderator: Rafal Jan Felbur, University of Heidelberg

14:30 08:30 21:30 22:30 05:30

Roundtable


Local meeting rooms are located at Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg.
Map of the rooms