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This workshop is organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS); with support from Yale-NUS College, and funded by the Singapore Social Science Research Council (SSRTG Type A) project on “Linking the Digital Humanities to Biodiversity History in Singapore and Southeast Asia”.

Applicable across a wide variety of topics reaching from natural history to medical anthropology, religious practices, and many others, Singapore’s digital humanities landscape is dynamic and ever-changing, with new methods being employed and new fields of application emerging. For example, the digitization of historical materials and collections has fostered the collaboration of researchers across multiple disciplines, encouraging exchange, analysis, visualizations and simulations of new ideas and research. The interdisciplinary focus of this workshop also encourages connections between disciplines that do not typically interact with each other. Therefore, the workshop aims to explore and answer the following questions: Why are the digital humanities necessary and relevant? How can the digital humanities create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within Singapore as well as between Singaporean and foreign institutions? What innovations and best practices can be learned from today’s digital humanities landscape in Singapore and abroad? Building on our previous event titled “On Asia: Digitizing and Visualizing Historical Sources”, the workshop aims to further contribute to research and collaborations in the digital humanities landscape locally, strengthen Singapore’s position as a digital humanities hub, and gain inspirations from successfully implemented projects abroad.

WORKSHOP CONVENORS

Dr Stefan HUEBNER
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Dr Anthony D. MEDRANO
Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College

REGISTRATION

Registration is closed, and instructions on how to participate in this online workshop has been sent out to registered attendees. Please write to aritm@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend this event.