[Blog] From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR) Project Summer Training Session: Metadata and How to Make It, for FROGBEAR and Beyond

By Rui Ding, University of British Columbia On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR) project held a workshop entitled “Metadata and How to Make It, for FROGBEAR and Beyond.” In this series of summer training sessions, nearly forty faculty and graduate students from different academic institutions all …

[Blog] Digital Humanities Workshop at McMaster University

By Shanshan Zhao On May 26th and 27th, 2018, the McMaster University Centre for Buddhist Studies held a graduate student workshop entitled “Digital Humanities for Research in East Asian Religions.” This workshop was sponsored by the Tianzhu Global Network in Buddhist Studies. More than twenty graduate students from nearly twenty universities in North America gathered …

[Call for Applications] Graduate Student Workshop on Digital Humanities for Research in East Asian Religions (May 26-27, 2018)

McMaster University Centre for Buddhist Studies announces a two-day graduate student workshop on Digital Humanities for Research in East Asian Religions, May 26 and 27 at McMaster. The workshop is supported by the Tianzhu Global Network in Buddhist Studies. The workshop focuses on introductory level skills for mapping and network analysis. The goal is to …

[Workshop] UBC: What Use is a Digital Edition? (March 16, 2018)

This workshop in the Digital Humanities of South Asia will explore the idea of a digital edition of a Sanskrit text, which has the potential to foster intensive computer-assisted analysis, and thereby to transform both the nature of an edition of a text and the role of its editor. Our discussion will take up some challenges in creating and using digital editions of …

[Blog] Ten Thousand Rooms: A Report of Dr. Hunter’s Talk at the University of British Columbia (January 8, 2018)

By Maggie Mitchell On January 8th, 2018 the University of British Columbia hosted Dr. Mick Hunter, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University, to share his work on the Ten Thousand Rooms Project. Dr. Hunter is a co-principal investor of the project, a collaborative online workspace for scholars of pre-modern texts, …

[Updated Schedule] Research Roundtable: East Asian Manuscript and Print as Harbingers of the Digital Future (May 26-28th, 2016)

Sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies together with the Peking University Institute for the Study of Buddhist Texts and Arts, the UBC Department of Asian Studies, Centre for Japanese Research, St. John’s College, Library, and Asian Library. Objectives This roundtable examines ways in which the transition from manuscript to print and the …

[Blog] A Reflection on DDVC’s Second Academic Workshop, by Lisa Su

By Lisa Su. The article is re-published with Dharma Drum Vancouver Center's permission. A Workshop co-sponsored by DDVC and UBC A congregation of Buddhist scholars gathered at the Dharma Drum Vancouver Center on Saturday, October 4th, in the late hours of the afternoon. They come from all over the world to attend the conference on Paper, …