Digital Lunch Seminar Series

Japanese Paper Clothing

Eike Grossmann and Agnieszka Helman-Ważny 

Japanese washi—a paper celebrated for its unmatched strength, durability, and versatility—transcends its conventional role as a writing surface. Far more than writing surface, washi has been ingeniously adapted into sliding doors (shōji), umbrellas, lampshades, toys, and even clothing, blending...

Lecture 7/7

Yael Gazit:

Don’t Look Back in Anger: Reconsidering Appropriation of Past Philosophy 

Parchment as 11 Layers of Language

Matthew Collins (University of Cambridge)

I will argue that the future of the humanities lies in a "knowledge ecology" where in areas such as the biomolecular humanities, biologists, historians, and digital researchers should co-create meaning from the inception of research. Just as the Danish Kitchen Midden Commission of 1848 revolutionized interdisciplinary...

This workshop focuses on the production and transmission of the Jiaxing Canon 嘉興藏 as a promising source for enriching our understanding not only of the spread of Northern Buddhism to East Asian countries but also the cross-cultural dimensions of printing history in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Printed from woodblocks between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Jiaxing Canon...