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[2023-Jan-04] A reflection on recent developments in the digital humanities

Institute of Information Systems and Applications

Speaker:

Prof. Curtis Dean Smith

California State University, Sacramento (CSUS)

Topic:

A reflection on recent developments in the digital humanities

Date:

13:20-15:00 Wednesday 04-Jan-2023

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Link:

https://meet.google.com/xcx-exzx-nod

Location:

Delta 105

Hosted by:

Prof. Te-Chuan Chiu

Abstract

With its emphasis on textual materials, the humanities are often viewed to be hesitant to adopt modern technology, and often rightfully so.  The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated many changes in our daily and professional lives.  In higher education, this included a shift to fully online delivery of instruction.  Although inconvenient at first, and difficult for many, the changes necessitated by this move to work online have brought many advances to the humanities.  In this presentation, I will reflect on my personal journey from electrical engineering to Chinese language and literature, then present an overview of my personal uses of Information Technology in the classroom and university settings and in my personal scholarly work.

Bio.

Curtis Dean Smith has a Ph.D. in Chinese Language, Literature, and Philosophy from the National Taiwan Normal University. His area of specialization is Classical Chinese poetry and Su Shi. He is a Professor of Chinese and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at California State University in Sacramento. Member of the Immersive Global Middle Ages NEH National Endowment for the Humanities) Institute. Research interests include classical Chinese intellectual history and medieval Chinese literature. Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities  Publications include Tra il cielo e la terra: poesie nel cinese classico, in inglese e in italiano / A Voyage Between Heaven and Earth: Poems in Classical Chinese, English and Italian, with Barbara Carle (Milan: La Vita Felice, 2017), Second edition, 2019, Classical Chinese Writers of the Pre-Tang Period, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 358 (Detroit: Gale, 2011), 李白 Li Bai (a bilingual edition in Chinese and English of critical biographies on Chinese thinkers) (Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2010), and "Su Shi (1037-1101)," Classical and Medieval Literature, Vol. 139 (Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012), 73-274.
All faculty and students are welcome to join.

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