Name
KARAISL, Antonia
Degree
PhD, Intellectual History
Status
Assistant Professor
Research Topic
Japanese sangaku and Euclidean geometry: A history of tangents or parallel lines?
The practice of dedicating sangaku (算額), votive tablets presenting geometric problems in word and image, flourished in Japan throughout the Edo period. Close to a thousand sangaku survive in shrines and temples to this day. Yet even though they showcase a unique geometrical discourse developed apart from Western mathematics, the case of sangaku is almost entirely unknown outside the country. This research project aims to put this tradition on the radar of international scholarship: by creating an open source bilingual repository for all surviving sangaku; and by forging research networks nationally and internationally to study the practice in detail.
Monthly Spotlight
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Mapping relationships between Edo mathematicians through ‘sangaku’
Education and Academic Employment
Education
| 2015-2020 | PhD in Intellectual History, Warburg Institute, SAS, University of London (London, UK) |
| 2008-2010 | MA in International Economics and European Studies, SAIS Johns Hopkins (Bologna, Italy; Washington, DC, USA) |
| 2003-2007 | BA in Literae Humaniores (Classics), St Anne’s College, Oxford University (Oxford, UK) |
Academic Employment
| 2022 | Kress Digital Humanities Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies |
| 2017/2018 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University College London |
| 2016 | Project Manager for the development of Latin OCR software, Classics Department, Durham University |
Fields of Research Interests
History of philosophy and science; Latin philology and palaeography; open source OCR technology
Academic Publications
[Books]
- Karaisl, A. (2021) The House is in a State: Christian Wolff’s Oeconomica in the context of Public Welfare, De Gruyter
[Journal Publications]
- San Giacomo, Andrea, Tanasescu, Raluca, Hogenbirk, Hugo, Karaisl, Antonia, White, Nick (2022) Reading in the Mist: High-quality Optical Character Recognition based on freely available early modern digitized books, DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqac014, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac014
- Hawk, Brandon, Karaisl, Antonia , White, Nick (2019), Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 13.1, http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/13/1/000412/000412.html
[Conference Proceedings]
- Karaisl, A. (2022), Defence is the Best Attack: Jesuit astronomy as a conversion tool in Japan, ICAS 2021 Conference Proceedings, Amsterdam University Press
[Book Reviews]
- Karaisl, A. (2021) Robert Mitchell, Infectious Liberty. Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. 304, Foucault Studies, 31, pp. 247-251
Other Interests
rock climbing, skiing
Affiliated Academic Organizations
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Awards
2019 Postgraduate Research Seminar Series Award for best presentation, SAS, University of London
2005 Scholarship and De Paravicini Prize for Latin Prose translation, Oxford University
