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On 21st March 2025, Andrea Bréard will give a text-reading seminar entitled “Decoding 實如法而一”. The seminar is held at 3.30 - 5 p.m.  at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge. All welcome! The Needham Research Institute is situated at the corner of Sylvester and Herschel Roads, behind Robins...

********   Deadline extended to March 16th ********** On July 16 and 17, 2025, sin-aps will host a workshop on Quantifying Education in 20th Century China: Schools as Production Sites and Repositories of Statistics on. This workshop aims to explore schools as institutions central to the productio...

                In 2010, Shi Dinghuan, then counselor of the State Council, gave an optimistic prospect for China’s solar power: “In 10 years, the total amount of solar power generated in China will be equivalent to about 1.5 Three Gor...

Am 3. Dezember 2024 wird Frau Prof. Andrea Bréard im Rahmen der vom Asien-Pazifik-Forum der Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg veranstalteten Ringvorlesung einen Vortrag halten zum Thema ‘Statistik mit chinesischen Eigenschaften‘ im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik In dem Vortrag sol...

Le colloque de la Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques (Société Mathématique de France) a lieu Jeudi 14 novembre et vendredi 15 novembre 2024 à la Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Suisse), dans: Room B3, ETH building LFW, Universitätsstraße 2. Il est aussi possible d’assister en vis...

The first World Conference of Classics, themed "Classical Civilizations and the Modern World," was held at the Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention & Exhibition Center from November 6 to 8. Four hundred and eighty-five scholars (and about as many journalists) from over thirty countries ga...

Florian Kessler will present a paper entitled "Towards Context-aware Normalization of Variant Characters in Classical Chinese Using Parallel Editions and BERT" at the ML4AL@ACL workshop on August 15, 2024 in Bangkok. For the automatic processing of Classical Chinese texts it is highly desirable to ...

At the 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) in Tallinn, Estonia (August 27-30th, 2024), a panel on China and Universal Languages in the Early 20th Century is organized by Prof. Andrea Bréard and Prof. Josh Fogel from York University, Toronto. There will be ...

DH 2024 is the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. This year, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at their Arlington, VA campus, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., hosts the DH 2024 conference from August 6-9, 2024, . Florian Keßler will present...

On July 12, Florian Keßler will present the sin-aps database at the Conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies organised by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Staatsbibliotkek zu Berlin. The relational database was developed with HEU...