CFA: Join The DO 2026/27 - Middle Eastern Studies spotlight! 🔦 Editors, Maria S. Thomas & Tiziana Pasciuto, invite contributions that showcase the fluid and extensive possibilities of #digitalhumanities across West Asian, Mediterranean, & Eurasian cultures. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/cfa-middle-e...

Interesting piece by Alice Casalini @digitalorientalist.bsky.social. "Buddhism and AI: Another Look" digitalorientalist.com/2026/03/24/b...

Buddhism and AI: Another Look

In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe and a Buddhist monk.” With this change in my life came new standards in my relationship wi…

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CFA: Join The DO 2026/27 - South Asian Studies spotlight! 🔦 👋 Meet Yashee Singh, one of our South Asian Studies editors (along with Raafat Gilani), introducing some of the work carried out by the team this year. Interested in joining? 👇 🔗 See full CFA: digitalorientalist.com/2026/06/05/c...

私が大会委員長兼編集委員を務めております、オンライン学術誌『The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social 』では、来年度の常任寄稿者及びSNSマネージャーを公募しております。アジア研究(日本研究含む)・アフリカ研究・オセアニア研究及び中東研究各分野におけるデジタル人文学に興味・関心がある方であればどなたでも応募可能です。研究者は勿論、大学院生、司書、学芸員、アーキビスト、エンジニア、プログラマー、デザイナー、翻訳家、ジャーナリスト、法曹関係者等、幅広い背景の皆様からのご関心をお待ちしております！(公用語は英語です)

The Digital Orientalist@digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join our team ! The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. digitalorientalist.com/2026/06/05/c...

CFA: Join The DO 2026/27 - Northeast Asian Studies spotlight! 🔦 James Harry Morris, Editor for Northeast Asian Studies, talks about the range of work we welcome, including cutting-edge #DH approaches and user-focused pieces on digital tools, workflows etc. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/cfa-northeas...

A fantastic two year postdoctoral opportunity in Persian Literature here at UC Davis. Come join us and share widely with folks in MLA and Middle East studies! mesana.org/resources-an...

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The Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies invite applications for the newly established Bita Daryabari Endowment Postdoctoral Scholar/Lecturer position...

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CFA: Join The DO 2026/27 - Southeast Asian Studies spotlight! 🔦 Our Southeast Asian Studies editor, Hedren Sum, talks about the range of work we welcome, including #DH approaches to languages, archives, mapping, media, and heritage. Read more here: digitalorientalist.com/cfa-southeas...

私が大会委員長を務めました、令和7年5月開催『The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social 』誌主催国際会議のプロシーデイングス無料Web公開が進んでいます。今回は、シンガポール国立大学の杜琳先生による「The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda」です。是非ご覧下さい!

The Digital Orientalist@digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In our new article, Lin Du proposes the methodology of Digital Historical Forensics (DHF), a method designed to recover the editorial micro-decisions that propaganda's surface works to conceal. Read more on our website: digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/29/t...

Join our team ! The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. digitalorientalist.com/2026/06/05/c...

In our new guest post, Damian Mandzunowski describes how COVID-19 restrictions shifted his historical research to visual sources and lead to the creation of "Reading in China Photographed," a WordPress repository of 385 tagged historical photographs. Read more on our website ⬇️

In our new article, Lin Du proposes the methodology of Digital Historical Forensics (DHF), a method designed to recover the editorial micro-decisions that propaganda's surface works to conceal. Read more on our website: digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/29/t...

In our new article, Rachael Griffiths reflects on "failures" in digital humanities and the lack of publication of failed or inconclusive research results. Read more on our website! digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/22/e... #digitalhumanities

In our new article, Enes Yılandiloğlu demonstrates how he builds an NER pipeline for the 16th-century Ottoman text Künhü'l-Ahbar and geocodes the local entities via three different gazetteers for Ottoman Turkish. Read more on our website ! digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/19/f...

Editors’ Choice: From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts

From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts

Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from the 16th century, I established a computational pipeline to…

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@digitalorientalist.bsky.social inspired by your article, I'm almost done changing this stack of Lego bricks into a single Go application. github.com/sarahmaeve/g...

GitHub - sarahmaeve/go-iiif: Experiment in local IIIF fetch and store

Experiment in local IIIF fetch and store. Contribute to sarahmaeve/go-iiif development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Digital Orientalist@digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In our new article, Zach Butler guides us on how to set up a local IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) image server to ensure uninterrupted access to manuscript images for research. Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/12/r...

In our new article, @somiyagawa.bsky.social introduces the Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT), a comprehensive digital archive of over 4,500 texts from Christian Nubian kingdoms (6th–15th c.). Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/15/t...

In our new article, Zach Butler guides us on how to set up a local IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) image server to ensure uninterrupted access to manuscript images for research. Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/12/r...

Editors’ Choice: The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions

The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)

This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. This post is the second of a two-part series. The first outlines the background of the pilot study and its methodology; this post focuses on the out…

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In our new article, Shuohong Lyu introduces the concept of "artificial intelligence hegemony": when AI systems become the organisers of the conditions of meaning-making, credibility, and intellectual labour. Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/08/a...

In our new article, Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy surveys digital Coptic studies, highlighting key projects alongside the persistent challenges. Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/05/d...

Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next? Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy @digitalorientalist.bsky.social digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/05/d... @copticscript.bsky.social

Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?

This is a guest post by Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy. Over the past decade, Coptic studies, in all its branches—language, history, and art—has steadily entered the digital age. While the field was tradit…

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Our new articles this week are the bipartite interview of Prof. David Michelson by Ephrem A. Ishac on Digital Syriac Studies. In the interview, Prof. Michelson discusses his experiences working on projects from Syriaca.org to Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library. Read more on our website:

Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1) @digitalorientalist.bsky.social digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/28/i... @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social @coe-eurasia.bsky.social

In our new article, @brianthwong.bsky.social and Curtis Sai Hung Chan introduce the Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection at HKU Libraries, an archive of ledgers and correspondence from over 200 Chinese firms. Read more on our website! 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/24/t...

Our new blog post is an Editor's Digest by Sara Zanotta, our editor for Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies. Read more on our website! digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/21/e... #digitalhumanities #persian #IranianStudies #turkicstudies #biblicalstudies

Our new article by Abdulqadir Haidermota is out ! Read more on our website: The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1) digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/14/t...

In our new article, Zhaleh Nayebossadrian critically examines the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) digital archive, which aggregates private family collections to recover women's histories from Iran's Qajar era (1796–1925). Read more on our website ! digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/10/d...

In our new article, "AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts," @rachaelgriffiths.bsky.social tests paperreview.ai, an AI tool designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers. Read more on our website! digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/07/a...

AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers. Much to their surprise, they found the…

AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts

A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers. Much to their surprise, they found the feedback to be meaningful and noted that it even echoed some of the comments provided by a human reviewer. Despite some of the suggestions being more aligned towards data science than the humanities, my colleague’s experience was overall a positive one and they planned to keep using it.

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