Future Visualizations: At the Intersection of Media and Data
This symposium aims to generate an open critique of the way that we have visualized, modeled, computed, or otherwise structured data so far—and how contemporary research on race, gender, disabilities, and political speech can help us imagine future visualizations that are more equitable and just.
- Day & Time：January 29th, 2023 (Sunday), 13:15-17:00 (JST) (Doors open 13:00)
- Venue：the multi-purpose lecture room in the basemant of Building No.26
- Language：English
- Participation：Free, We encourage participants who would like to join this event to make a reservation HERE
- Organized by The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, with support from the Waseda International House of Literature
Presenters
Javier Cha
Talk Title: Fine-Tuning the Historian’s Macroscope: Data Reuse and Medieval Korean Biographical Records in Neo4j
Javier Cha is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. As a medievalist and a technologist, he has been active in the digital humanities community since 2008.
Cha is the principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab, which investigates data centers and modern telecommunications infrastructure from a humanities perspective. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing and the international nominations committee for Digital Humanities Awards.
Paula Curtis
Talk Title: Visualizing Digital Futures: Public-facing Scholarship & Online Harassment
Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan and an active participant in digital communities in and beyond East Asian Studies. She is presently the Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer with the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current book project focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. In addition, Dr. Curtis collaborates in several online projects, including the Digital Humanities Japan initiative; an online database for digital resources related to East Asia; and the collection and visualization of job market data in East Asian Studies.
Tamara Fuchs
Talk Title: Exploring Data in its Complexity of Meaning: Corpus-based Analysis of Abusive and Political Language in Japanese and German Online Discourse
Tamara Fuchs is a PhD Student at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg at the chair of Japanese Studies. During her master’s studies, she undertook a research internship at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. Shortly after completing her Master’s degree, her first article was published in the journal Japan Forum, analyzing abusive language targeting Japanese female politicians on Twitter. In 2020, she received the Short Research Grant from the Yamaoka Memorial Foundation. Today, her research focuses on the topic of the normalization of right-wing populist and new-right discourses in Japan and Germany which she is working on in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Facilitator
Eric Siercks
Assistant Professor, Waseda International House of Literature
Contact
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities : [email protected]
