MARIE BOURREL-MCKINNON, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF & HEAD OF STRATEGIC PLANNING UNITE, INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY EDWIN EGEDE, PROFESSOR, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY ZHANG DAN, RESEARCH, CHINA INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME AFFAIRS SOURABH GUPTA, SENIOR FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR CHINA-AMERICA STUDIES
June 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
On Tuesday, June 10, ICAS, in collaboration with the Institute for China-Europe Studies (ICES), will host a webinar on the legal challenges and geostrategic competition of deep-seabed mining. This event will feature former ISA official Marie Bourrel-McKinnon, ICAS Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta, Zhang Dan from the China Institute for Maritime Affairs, and Edwin Egede from Cardiff University. The discussion will be moderated by ICES Executive Director Li Yang, with opening remarks from ICAS Executive Director Nong Hong. The event will be hosted via Zoom, and registration for the event will be required.
MULTIPLE SPEAKERS
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
The “International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics” has previously been held three times, in Seoul (Korea) and Hangzhou (China), advancing the integration of East Asian classics and digital humanities while fostering international collaboration among scholars. Organized by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at Peking University in collaboration with Capital Library of China and the East Asian Knowledge and Culture Education Research Institute of Korea, the 4th International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics will take place fromJuly 20 to 22, 2025. This conference will provide a platform for libraries, research institutions, design and creative teams, and related industries to collaborate, focusing on developing and utilizing classical resources with AI. The conference aims to open new perspectives and expand research horizons for East Asian classical studies. The conference will feature keynote speeches, paper and poster sessions, and workshops on digital transformation of ancient texts. Scholars, practitioners, and students in related fields are encouraged to contribute and participate. Outstanding submissions will be selected for journal publication. Organizational Institutions Organizer: Research Center for Digital Humanities, Peking University Co-Organizer: Capital Library of China Collaborators: East Asian Knowledge and Culture Education Institute (Korea) Digital Humanities Research Institute, Renmin University of China Intellectual Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage, Wuhan University Center for Big Data in Language and Computational Humanities, Nanjing Normal University Research Center for Digital History, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage Communication, Communication University of China Editorial Board ofDigital Humanities Professional Development Alliance for Digital Humanities China Digital Humanities Organizations Alliance (Additional collaborators to be announced) Contact Email：dheac2025[AT]163[DOT]com
PROFESSOR JOAN JUDGE (YORK UNIVERSITY) JOAN JUDGE IS A 2021 GUGGENHEIM FELLOW, A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, AND A PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT YORK UNIVERSITY IN TORONTO. A CULTURAL HISTORIAN OF PRINT AND KNOWLEDGE IN MODERN CHINA, HER MOST RECENT PUBLICATION ISTHE POLITICS OF COMMON READING: VERNACULAR KNOWLEDGE AND EVERYDAY TECHNICS IN CHINA, 1894-1954WHICH IS FORTHCOMING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS IN THE FALL OF 2025. SHE IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OFREPUBLICAN LENS: GENDER, VISUALITY, AND EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY CHINESE PERIODICAL PRESS(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2015),THE PRECIOUS RAFT OF HISTORY: THE PAST, THE WEST, AND THE WOMAN QUESTION IN CHINA(STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008), ANDPRINT AND POLITICS: ‘SHIBAO’ AND THE CULTURE OF REFORM IN LATE QING CHINA(STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996). SHE IS CO-EDITOR OFTHE SINOSPHERE AND BEYOND: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOSHUA FOGEL(DEGRUYTER OLDENBOURG, 2024), “PUBLISHING FOR DAILY LIFE IN EARLY MODERN EAST ASIA,” (SPECIAL ISSUE OFLINGUA FRANCA: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN TRANSLATION6 [2020]),WOMEN WARRIORS AND NATIONAL HEROES: GLOBAL HISTORIES(BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2020),WOMEN AND THE PERIODICAL PRESS IN CHINA’S GLOBAL TWENTIETH CENTURY: A SPACE OF THEIR OWN?(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018), ANDBEYOND EXEMPLAR TALES: WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHY IN CHINESE HISTORY(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2011).
June 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC
Many of the knowledges we can classify as vernacular were enacted by women in spheres that were largely governed by women: whether household maintenance, family emergencies, or basic healthcare. Accessing this level of knowledge and penetrating women’s experience, however, poses significant methodological challenges. Where can we look to find vernacular knowers who left few physical traces of what they thought or what they did? How can we begin to reconstitute what they knew, how they knew it, and how they applied it? I will explore ways of overcoming these methodological difficulties in this presentation. I will first define vernacular knowledge and introduce the genres of cheap print with which I am working. I will then introduce the notion of vernacular literacy which serves to expand our understanding of which women read, how they read, and where they read. Finally, I will use an assemblage of methods to create composites of individuals and attempt to reconstruct how particular historical women might have engaged in household science—to label clothing, preserve eggs, and treat a cholera infection. Ultimately the presentation interrogates the largely unacknowledged intersections between vernacular knowledge and science, and broadens our understanding of as yet little explored gendered modes of knowing.