Cindy Nguyen is a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Literature Department at University of California, San Diego. She previously worked at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in History at University of California, Berkeley (2019). She specializes in the history of Vietnam, Southeast Asia print culture, and libraries. Her book manuscript, "Misreading: Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865-1958" examines the cultural and political history of libraries in Hanoi and Saigon from the French colonial period through to the decolonization of libraries.
The MSU Vietnam Group Archive includes roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images. Most of these materials date from 1955-1962, when Michigan State University led a range of US-funded technical assistance programs in South Vietnam for the purpose of producing a stable non-Communist ally in Southeast Asia.| Michigan State University
The Vietnamese Intellectual Networks Database provides detailed data regarding key Vietnamese intellectuals, their geographic movement, and their intellectual networks. Based on primary and secondary sources, the database seeks to highlight the historical nuances of each trip by charting modes of transit, activities in situ, and engagements between intellectuals. In this way, this database thus would form a nucleus for ongoing spatial research into Vietnamese intellectual networks. The project begins by aggregating data on Phan Bội Châu’s (1867-1940) movements and will explore adding other prominent scholars and activists such as Phan Chu Trinh (1872-1926), Lương Văn Can (1854-1927), Ngô Đức Kế (1878-1929) and Huỳnh Thúc Kháng (1876-1947). This data could then be cross-referenced and plotted against any number of different spatial metrics, statistical data, or known transportation and communication networks. This data will also be used to produce rich network and geographic visualizations and will contribute new perspectives to Vietnamese history and East Asian regional history. | Berkeley
The objective of the Digital Wayang Encyclopedia is to offer consistent information about the main wayang kulit characters and plots. Javanese wayang kulit (leather puppets) is one of the most important and oldest performance traditions in Southeast Asia. But the languages and conventions constitute an impediment to those not familiar with the tradition. The Digital Wayang Encyclopedia (as sister project of the Contemporary Wayang Archive) aims to be used by scholars, students, artists and wayang enthusiasts interested in Javanese wayang kulit (an Indonesian-language version is being planned). Our goal is to aid in a variety of research and creative projects, ranging from ethnographic to computational analysis. The information in the entries is hyperlinked and easily searchable. It is also encoded in machine-readable formats that can be used for data-driven quantitative analyses. Our main goal is not comprehensiveness but consistency and below we explain how we standardize the data in the entries, and the rationale for this.
For this study, we were interested in seeing whether biomechanics could be used to investigate a question relevant to Javanse dance scholarship. We wanted to avoid a simplistic cross-cultural comparison or merely looking at practical questions such as injury preventing or teaching enhancement. Although we believe both possibilities to hold promise, we were here primarily interested in whether we could use the biomechanical toolkit to address questions relevant to dance scholars. The question we settled on is related to stylization and typology. We were interested in identifying the biomechanical markers of different character types for male dancers (refined, vigorous, vigorous-refined, simian, birdlike, and de- mon) in the dramatic Sendratari form of Yogyakarta. The reasons for focusing in this question require some discussion of Javanese dance theory and practice. Typology, or the classification of dances along several types is a key feature for the practice and appreciation of Javanese dance. Typology is central to the discursive sphere on dance, as well as to the appreciation and pedagogy of dance. Several researchers indicate that typology is also a key component of the Javanese worldview, aesthetic principles and general philosophy, and dance is just a reflection of this. In dance, there are regional types, dance types and character types.
A recording of standing motion for each character type can be found in the left side panel, as well as some comparative features that enable users to explore similiarities and differences among these character types.
Full length videos of new adaptations of Javanese wayang kulit (wayang kontemporer), with subtitles and notes. The Contemporary Wayang Archive (CWA) is a collection of re-elaborations of Java's oldest performance tradition. All of the performances were recorded in 21st century Java. This archive includes translations, notes and explanations of how the performances were received in their original context.
Wayang Kontemporer. Innovations in Javanese Wayang Kulit.
This is the dissertation website of Miguel Escobar. This dissertation was completed in 2014 and examined in 2015 at the Theatre Studies Programme of the National University of Singapore. It was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the best dissertation in Humanities and Social Sciences (2015).
Digital Humanities and Theatre Research | Miguel Escobar Varela
I am a web developer, translator and theatre researcher who has lived in Mexico, The Netherlands, Singapore and Indonesia. I work as Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore and Academic Advisor on Digital Scholarship at the NUS Libraries. I also convene Digital Humanities Singapore. My main research interests are Indonesian theatre and the digital/computational humanities.
The concept of garbo is widely acknowledged as a combination of song and dance in worship of the Goddess during Navratri in Gujarat (Shukla-Bhatt 3). However, due to contemporisation of the art form, the significance of garbo as an image is usually missed out on. The image traditionally consists of a “perforated globular clay pot with a wide round mouth”, in which women light lamps that are meant to be kept alight for the span of nine nights (Shukla-Bhatt 4).
NGO Khoj Project is our tiny little effort to democratise data, which primarily happens to be basic information regarding Civil Society pan India. By this, we not only hope to widen the base of numerous NGOs, NPOs and other charitable organisations doing some fabulous work but also help those interested meet their 'ideal' organisation or agency, based on their locational preference and area of interest.
While some agencies have attempted to offer networking solutions, these solutions often come with a price and a bias. Amidst this very spurt in voluntary sector jobs and the sheer lack of information thereto, this project aims to take some cognizable steps in the field of networking, collecting, curating and distributing data in an unbiased and democratic fashion.
India is a nation with a rich botanical heritage, and always has been. The importance of the bounty that we possessed may not have been recognized until a few centuries ago. The remembrance of our elaborate colonial past is alive in the spirit of the nation. And at some point in history, these two identities converged- contributing an ocean of botanical discoveries and breakthroughs by the Portuguese, Dutch and the British.
We bring to you these surveys, arranged chronologically – All aligned in a timeline!
We have curated 97 British, 8 Dutch and 3 Portuguese surveys, spanning across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Welcome to the 1975 Indian emergency website. A place where you can find everything about the emergency period, like letters, caricatures, articles , books as well as video and audio interviews!
We are those six students (we know there are only five photos, we promise there are six of us!) and this is our little space on the Internet dedicated to curating Indian children’s literature. We’ve lived and breathed children’s literature for the past two months; all of this enthusiasm has been exhibited on this blog. Whether it’s a database of close to a thousand children’s books from India (yes, really), articles discussing trends in Indian children’s literature or academic papers questioning the discipline itself, we have something for everyone! We do hope that this site will be helpful to anyone and everyone interested in children’s literature in India, thank you so much for stopping by!
Digital Humanities | Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Interdisciplinary research platform on Digital Humanities at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT).
The digital revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries has created new knowledge and spaces for humankind to evolve culturally with the construction of techniques and technologies. As a corollary, a new field of organised research emerged at the beginning of the 2000s examining the use and application of digital technologies in humanities, the liberal arts, social science scholarship, and beyond. Popularly nested under an umbrella term “Digital Humanities”, this area of scholarship takes a critical stance to examine the role, use, application, and impact of digital tools in our everyday life, our societies, economies, cultures, and governments. However, while the use of computational tools in social science and humanities work is not very new, the availability of a large body of cultural artefacts after the digital turn, as well as emergence of new kinds of digital objects and embodiments, has opened up several possibilities for social science and humanities research, practice and pedagogy using computational approaches. Very soon, the question of whether something is, or is not, ‘digital’ will be increasingly secondary as many forms of culture become mediated, produced, accessed, distributed or consumed through digital devices and technologies. In other words, the field of Digital Humanities is expected to grow on principles of interdisciplinary rather than multidisciplinary principles. Our research focus and pedagogy in this IDRP group emphasize on many of the emerging epistemological questions on knowledge production about generating digital data from material objects, and on rethinking of existing processes of knowledge production.
Our PhD Program in Digital Humanities
IIT Jodhpur is one of the pioneering institutes in the country currently to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Digital Humanities. The Inter Disciplinary Research Platform at IIT Jodhpur facilitates this doctoral degree programme.This doctoral programme offers unique opportunities to redraw conventional disciplinary boundaries among the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, technology and engineering, and the natural sciences. Doctoral students opting for this program are expected to contribute towards integrating disciplinary approaches of the humanities, liberal arts, social sciences, and computer technologies, with cross-disciplinary theorising and research that can be avant-garde to the field of Digital Humanities. Examples of research emphases may include (but are not limited to): Digital Cultures/ Cultural Practices – Past and Present; Digital Societies; Digital Heritage (Preservation, Conservation, Restoration, Recreation); Thematic Computation Reading of Novels; Multimodal Data Analytics; Digital Epistemologies and Methods. Doctoral research in Digital Humanities shall be premised on project-oriented knowledge production, the practical application of methods, and shall involve interdisciplinary collaboration workflows. In addition to the regular PhD stipend, an additional financial assistance for research may be facilitated on a competitive basis.
This Research Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, brings together scholars and practitioners interested in the potential of digital technologies in scholarship, archives and heritage. The aim of the network is to explore the particular potential and challenges presented by devising research projects using digital datasources, digitisation and geospatial methodologies
This blog is an attempt at documenting slam poetry in India. Slam poetry is a new and dynamic art form that brings words to life by blending together writing and performance. In India, the movement is at the brink of redefining poetry as we know it. However, we believe it still needs its deserved recognition. We feel like this is the perfect opportunity to track its journey and bring it together for people to see, and that is exactly what we’re here to do!
We thought the best way to bring it to you was through the eyes of the poets themselves. At the same time, this website attempts to put together information about some of the events and organisations that are promoting slam poetry in the country. Along with this, we have a few performances by the featured poets to give you a taste of what the slam poetry scene is all about.
Most of the entries have been taken from the "Dictionary of Pali Names" by G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from "The Pali Text Society, London".
This site provides tools for Sanskrit processing: dictionary search, morphology generation and analysis, segmentation, tagging and parsing.
The first service is dictionary access. The dictionary is a hypertext structure giving access to the Sanskrit lexicon, given with grammatical information. There are currently two versions of the dictionary.
The first one is the original Heritage Sanskrit-French dictionary, that serves as morphology generator, and is thus fully equipped with grammatical tools. Furthermore it offers a rich encyclopedic contents about Indian culture. You may also download a printable pdf version of this dictionary, as explained below. A fully hypertext version in the Goldendict format is also available.
The second lexicon is a digital version of the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English dictionary, a much more complete lexicon for the Sanskrit language. It is issued from Thomas Malten's digitalization of the Monier-Williams at Köln University, turned into an XML databank by Jim Funderburk, and finally adapted to the HTML Heritage look and feel by Pawan Goyal. The Sanskrit Heritage dictionary is thus mirrored in the Monier-Williams, which allows compatibility of the grammatical tools.
This site offers a number of linguistic services for the Sanskrit language, such as a Sanskrit Reader that parses Sanskrit text under various formats into Sanskrit banks of tagged hypertext. Various phonological and morphological tools are also provided.
Learnsanskrit - An English-Sanskrit dictionary: This is an online hypertext dictionary for Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit. The online hypertext Sanskrit dictionary is meant for learning Sanskrit. There are also many fables in Sanskrit for beginners: Aesop, Panchatantra, Hitopadesha, Jataka fables.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes and supports digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training.
Mongolia Journals Online is supported by INASP since launched in 2011. It has been established in association with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and aims to promote Knowledge dissemination in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. Publications are scholarly in content, peer reviewed, and contain original research.
Early Chinese Music Resources are compiled by David Badagnani. It is a collection of resources relating to Chinese music through the Qing, with links to scores, audio and video recordings, and textual sources.
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