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Dear All, Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this presentation. Our apologies for any convenience this has caused for those who had planned to attend. Thank you, Mahala --- Mahala Nyberg Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Group Northeastern University Library [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Nyberg, Mahala Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:36 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>; HIST-Grad <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>; Department of English Graduate Students <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Reminder: Presentation by Japanese Digital Humanities Scholars Dear all, Please join the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University in welcoming Digital Humanities Scholars visiting us from Japan: Dr. Kiyonori Nagasaki and his graduate student, Naoki Kokaze. Dr. Nagasaki’s presentation, “Recent trends of DH in Japan: Massive Digitization, Deep Learning, and TEI, will discuss current Digital Humanities Trends in Japan. Kokaze’s presentation, “Encoding Ancient Japanese Historical Documents”, will share work and additions to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. Their presentations will take place on Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:00pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons Seminar Space, Snell Library 211 (Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston). For more information and to RSVP see here: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/6504927 Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo. His main research interest is in the development of digital frameworks for collaboration in Buddhist studies. He is also engaging in investigation into the significance of digital methodology in Humanities and in promotion of DH activities in Japan. He has been participating in a number of Digital Humanities projects conducted at several institutions in Japan and abroad such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, the National Diet Library, the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, the University of Tsukuba and the University of Hamburg. His activities also include postgraduate education in DH at the University of Tokyo as well as administrative tasks at several scholarly societies including Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, and the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies. Naoki Kokaze is a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, specialising in British maritime history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2014, he has also engaged in Digital Humanities research, mainly focusing on text encoding of historical sources. He was chosen as the 2018/19 Best Overall Student in the MA in Digital Humanities of King’s College London, UK. He is a director of a cross-disciplinary workshop, Tokyo Digital History, where historians, archivists, librarians, and programmers discuss how to apply information technology to historical studies and explore digital history. Please feel free to share this event with others who may be interested. If you have any questions you may contact me at [log in to unmask] --- Mahala Nyberg Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Group Northeastern University Library [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH