A Taste of Digital Scholarship – Caboara & Ma
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Come and enjoy a taste of Digital Scholarship as two HKUST HUMA faculties share on their recent projects!
Each will share for 20 minutes, followed by a 20 min Q&A session.
Dr. Marco Caboara – Mapping Tartary: A Digital Exploration of European Cartography
In this talk, Dr. Caboara will share on the challenges of developing a digital platform that will enable scholars, students, and the general public to explore and analyze the evolving representations of Tartary in European maps.
Prof. Jianxiong Ma – Digital Humanities Study on the Bazi Basin Society in Southwest China and Highland Southeast Asia
In this talk, Prof. Ma will share on the first phase of a recent project which includes a detailed study of local documents from the Wanli period, digitizing them and creating a GIS system. This will enable an analysis to help explain human settlements and the construction of ethnic identity under the geographical conditions of that the southwestern border of China.
Dr. Marco Caboara is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Cartography and the History of Science at HKUST. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts. For the past few years he has worked on research and development of the library’s map collection and a carto-bibliography of early European maps of China. His future plans include the continuation of the carto-bibliography into the nineteenth century and a companion volume dedicated to Chinese maps of China.
Prof. Jianxiong Ma is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Division of Humanities at HKUST. His books include The Lahu Minority in Southwest China: A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier and Reinventing Ancestor: Ethnic Mobilization in China’s Southwest Frontier and the Historical Construction of Lahu (in Chinese). His present research focuses on the historical formation of the Sino-Burma frontier and ecological conditions of cultural diversity and ethnicity in southwest China, especially in Yunnan Province.
- This is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the “Personal Enrichment & Community Service” category under the “Self-directed Experience” of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness.
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