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Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC)- Song Chen

Friday, April 19, 2019 at 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Uris Hall, G08 140 Uris Hall

Song Chen | Bucknell University presents this special digital humanities workshop on:

Methods of Digital Prosopography: Data Mining and Data Visualization

This workshop will walk participants through the process of transforming texts into datasets and analyzing them with different visualization applications. The first part of the workshop discusses how regular expressions and text markup are used for extracting named entities and entity relations in a text. It provides a tutorial on transforming texts into datasets. The second part explores these and other datasets on spatial and/or network visualization platforms. It illustrates how visualizations help reveal spatial and structural patterns buried in large quantities of historical texts. Participants are encouraged to bring their own texts and/or datasets to the workshop for discussion and practice.

Participation in this workshop is free but is by pre-registration only. Please go to this link to register:  https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/cyduo.

Email: eap-guwen@cornell.edu for more information. 

Please note that this is a three-hour workshop starting earlier than our usual text reading sessions. The workshop runs from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

More about Song Chen: Song Chen received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Bucknell University. Song Chen’s research interests span both the fields of middle-period Chinese history and digital humanities. His work combines prosopography, network analysis, and GIS methods to reveal macroscopic changes in Chinese history using large quantities of historical sources. His recent projects investigate changes in the composition, career paths, and networks of China’s political elite in the Song period (960-1279), as well as the relationship between state, local elites, and local religion. He was the Project Manager for China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) between 2006 and 2010 and has served on its steering committee since 2011. At Bucknell, Professor Chen teaches East Asian civilization, surveys of Chinese history, and digital humanities. He is the director of the China Institute, and serves on the faculty committee of Bucknell-in-China program and the coordinating committee for Digital Humanities Minor.

About the Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC): CCCC is a reading group for students and scholars with interest in premodern Sinographic text. 

All are welcome, at any level of experience with classical Chinese.

At each session, one participant presents a text in classical Chinese.   Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, and work together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation.

Presentations include works of all sorts, from the earliest times to the twentieth century.

No preparation required:  all texts will be distributed at the meeting.
 

 

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Event Type

Seminar

Departments

Asian Studies, East Asia Program, Cornell China Center

Cost

free

Contact E-Mail

eap-guwen@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Amala Lane

Contact Phone

6072554195

Speaker

Chen Song

Speaker Affiliation

Bucknell University

Dept. Web Site

https://bit.ly/2sSjCea

Disability Access Information

wheelchair accessible

Open To

preregistered participants

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