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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kijk ernaar uit -- alle zitjes zijn intussen uitverkocht! Het programma voor 4 colleges over 1500 jaar Chinese geschiedenis vinden jullie alvast hier: www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/app/uploads/...

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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

𝐇𝐨𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐫 𝐳𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐭 Dat bespreken #China experts @casperwits.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social), @hildedw.bsky.social, @devosve.bsky.social & @blogaap.bsky.social bij de collegedag 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘦𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘫𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘵 op 18 sept @historischnwsbl.bsky.social in Amsterdam

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Collegedag - China van keizerrijk tot wereldmacht

Vier experts vertellen tijdens deze collegedag op vrijdag 18 september over de geschiedenis van China en haar opkomst tot wereldmacht.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For those who submitted articles or book manuscripts to Cambridge University Press recently: In late August CUP wrote that they had suffered a second cybersecurity incident. It is therefore not possible to order books from CUP online. At a meeting for editors yesterday I learned the following:

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

IMMARKUS is a semantic image annotation service that allows you to assemble and organize image collections and their metadata, identify specific image regions, create custom data models to annotate images, and add relationships between elements in and across images. #siteoftheweek (1/2)

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A semantic image annotation tool for researchers, digital humanists and cultural heritage professionals. - rsimon/immarkus

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies is out with a large section dedicated to reflections, essays, and research articles on the past and future of Chinese Studies, in celebration of the association's 50th anniversary. journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you're heading out to the European Association of Chinese Studies biannual conference in Venice, consider dropping by on Friday between 9 and 1 p.m. when we will be there to talk about infrastructural history from a variety of perspectives. share.google/ArJe3hjCnURa...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I was fortunate to be among the founding editors of EAPS w. Cynthia Brokaw and Peter Kornicki. Glad to see it is still going strong. In this issue I contribute a review of a book with an important mission but that shows some of the signs of what has gone wrong in academic publishing

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Come on, Belgium. Play like Sunzi tonight. We're up against one of the big states, one that hasn't lost in 35 games and that has so far not allowed any team to score against them. One goal is already a plus, but there may be ways to go for more with Master Garcia. 加油!

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Monika Lehner @monikalehner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Aber: Wir brauchen einen neuen Parkplatz ... denn 'meine' Zeit @univie.ac.at endet und damit mein Zugriff auf den Webspace. D.h.: Wir suchen dringend (!) einen Host, der ein ziemlich großes Blog migriert und längerfristig zugänglich macht ... Vielleicht @dehypotheses.bsky.social ???

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Education University of Hong Kong will host HKADH2027 on 21-24 January 2027. This will be the third iteration of the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities' annual conference, which has played an important role in raising Hong Kong's profile in the global digital humanities community.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

Detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The July 2026 special issue of the Journal of Chinese History featuring 9 contributions on the history of Chinese food culture and 25 book reviews covering various aspects of Chinese history across time is now online. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊: Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 - Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

After having traveled back and forth from one USPS depot to another since April 8 (track and trace is a mixed blessing), this thing has landed on my desk! 😅 Available here: share.google/fALEZCpmR8P3... And electronically from Amazon now and from your library soon.

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“IMMARKUS” presentation from - @hildedw.bsky.social & @aboutgeo.bsky.social at the @iiif.bsky.social Showcase #IIIF / Learn more about IMMARKUS here github.com/rsimon/immar...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

workshop in Leuven on datasets for the socio-economic history of Ming and Qing China. Based on hands-on sessions working with data samples, the format is designed to explore shared questions, directions for collaborative research, and data interoperability. Open to parties with relevant datasets.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

RIP Stephen Owen. 35 years ago I crossed the pond for the first time. I was delighted to take classes on poetry from the beginnings, the early medieval period, to the Tang and Qing, 5 in all, with the inimitable Steve Owen. Steve radiated the joy of research and the pleasure he took in writing.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp. What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.

Title page of the manuscript which reads 'Beschrijvinghe ende onderwijsinghe ter discreter ende vermaerder consten des boeckbinders handwerck, hier inne te sien ende te lesen hoemen de boecken op alderhande manieren binden ende maecken sal.'

Dutch cover of the book in parchment painted in red and part of it in white sheep leather that has been blind tooled.

Detail of the edges of the manuscript painted in red and green respectively.

French cover of the book in parchment painted in green and part of it in white sheep leather that has been blind tooled.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I learned so much from attending the workshop for the full release of the Digitizing Vietnam Hub and Platform at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University last weekend. It was rewarding to see that IMMARKUS was integrated in the workflow for creating these full-text collections.

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Ever wanted to learn ancient Armenian but never had the opportunity? Here is your chance! I will be teaching a course for beginners (in English) at ABELAO summer school in Louvain-la-Neuve this summer (4-14 Aug). Registrations are open (early bird discount until 15 April) abelao.be/cours/ancien...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

lookiing fwd to 2 workshops on Vietnamese Studies and the history of Lingnan/Lĩnh Nam (嶺南 covering present-day Southern China & Northern Vietnam) in NY 1) Ghosts of the Present: Nationalism and Sinitic Cosmopolitanism in the Medieval Far South April 17 More info weai.columbia.edu/events/ghost... /1

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#histbookchat #sinology New book from Hilde de Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social - out in UK on 12thJuly 2026

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Our online meemoo workshop (meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...) is now full. For those looking for other IMMARKUS workshops, check out the program of the IIIF annual meeting in Amsterdam, Leiden, and The Hague (conference2026.iiif.io/program/).

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Time flew by, but it was a real treat to visit Vancouver. It was great catching up with old and meeting new friends, planning ongoing and future projects, and attending some great @asianstudies.org panels from which I learned a great deal. Txs all, looking fwd to meeting again in Boston next year.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Want to know more about how Koreans wrote classical Chinese (also called literary Sinitic)? Join us at KU Leuven on March 20 for a book presentation of Yannick Bruneton's Grand manuel de chinois classique Hanmun and a workshop on the question of the periodization of the Koryǒ dynasty.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A wonderful project by an amazing colleague Angela Schottenhammer projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wat speelt er met al die ontslagen aan de top van het Chinese leger? Vanochtend te gast bij De Ochtend: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist... Voor de volledige podcast met Veerle De Vos en Tom Vandeweghe: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... /1

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CLARIAH-VL+ @clariahvl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🖼️ #IIIF Fridays: Discover IMMARKUS, an annotation tool for working smarter with digital image collections (Cc: @aboutgeo.bsky.social). In this online session, @hildedw.bsky.social will demonstrate how IMMARKUS can support your workflow! 📅 30 March (14:00-16:00) 📝 Register: meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...

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IIIF-Friday 13: IMMARKUS-workshop

Verrassing: de dertiende IIIF-Friday vindt voor een keer op een maandag plaats! Tijdens deze editie maak je kennis met IMMARKUS, een annotatietool van KU Leuven die je helpt om slimmer met beeldcollec...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Happy new year! 火馬迎春, 吉慶有餘。 (Inspired by a Ming illustrator and shared intelligence.)

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

CFA: two 3-year postdoc positions with Merlijn Hurx at KU Leuven in architectural history: one on building technology in the Yangtze delta and one on building markets in Europe and China. The deadline for applications is 16 March 2026. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Postdoctoral researcher ERC project URBAN-DELTA

Join the ERC project URBAN DELTA to study the historical foundations of megapolises in deltas in China and Europe

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I just published v0.1.0 of tiny.iiif 🚀 - the first official release of my new IIIF server! • Publish images as IIIF instantly • Organize images with simple drag+drop • Image Service + Presentation manifests + user-friendly GUI all in one package Available now! github.com/rsimon/tiny-...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The 3rd East Asian title is out in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought! Following Wu Jing: The Essentials of Governance & Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven, P Flueckiger's Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy is now on Cambridge Core.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My review of Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China. Timothy Brook and Lianbin Dai. In sum: a great contribution to understanding jingshi 經世 (statecraft, governance, and political economy)

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Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China

Published in Ming Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is now online, with 12 articles & 25 book reviews covering most periods of Chinese history. We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core

Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We are now full, but there is a waiting list. #IIIF

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Come join us on January 27th for an online workshop on how to annotate and transcribe IIIF Images with IMMARKUS. More information and a link for how to register free of charge: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

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2026 Online Meeting

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed ...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Onwards! Happy celebrations and best wishes for a more joyful new year of solidarity.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

EXTRAORDINARY. OHLeuven qualifies among the top 12 European women's soccer teams. On a shoestring budget.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

First steps for pilot work on the automated transcription, translation, and entity/event extraction of Qing archival dossiers and their linking across other datasets and other archival and historical sources. Impressive results even on cursive script.

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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🔊The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now open! Read the full CfP and find a link to submit: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

IIIF 2026 Annual Conference, The Netherlands, June 1-4, 2026.

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In collaboration with dutch digital heritage network

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Working with a small museum/archive/project with digitized images but little metadata? I'm looking for testers for a VLM pipeline for auto-enrichment (transcription, captions, tags, IIIF). If you share a few sample images, I'll run them through + share results. Would love to hear your feedback!

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

In defence of higher education & research: Sign the petition and join the protest in Brussels on Dec 11, 12pm For The allocation of basic funding for higher education; No increase of current registration fees; No cuts in scholarships hogeronderwijsinopstand.be hogeronderwijsinopstand.be/english/

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Hoger onderwijs in opstand

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🎉 IMMARKUS 1.0.5 is out! The latest release of our open-source image annotation tool for humanities, heritage & museum professionals is now available – with bug fixes, productivity enhancements, and improved #IIIF annotation import. Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...

Screenshot of the IMMARKUS annotation interface with three historical images—an Oxford bookplate, a medieval-style world map, and an early printed nautical map—displayed side by side, with metadata fields visible on the right.

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Cold and rainy but good fun at the annual Science Day in Leuven where we demonstrated how anyone can easily collect and work creatively with high-quality images streamed from cultural organizations globally. #dvdw2025 #IMMARKUS

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Somewhat of a surprise to me when this came up on a newsfeed: we're used to hearing that the Netherlands tops the list of the global EF English Proficiency Index, but it appears Flanders tops the Netherlands, and most Flemish provinces significantly outperform most Dutch provinces...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

WIth colleagues collaborating on the Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures we worked on methods & theoretical perspectives first; first results: 1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...

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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Contextual Semantic Text and Image Annotation in the MARKUS Environment

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Kom langs op 23 november. Wij zijn te vinden in de Universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf 11u met een korte sessie over het verzamelen, annoteren en vertalen met AI van beeldmateriaal wereldwijd. Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar! www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten... #dvdw2025

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KU Leuven - Ga op digitale schattenjacht en word een wereldverzamelaar! - Op Locatie - Dag van de Wetenschap

Ontdek het uitgebreide aanbod aan activiteiten van Dag van de Wetenschap. En goed nieuws: heel wat digitale Dag van de Wetenschap-activiteiten blijven immers gewoon online staan. Voortaan is het dus e...

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