Outreach
Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH)
BDSL has played a central role in the formation of the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH) and helped organize the HKADH2025 international conference in January 2025.
Digital Humanities Training
Every summer, BDSL offers weekly training to help emerging digital humanities specialists situate their research within existing academic discourses and develop effective curricula that balance theory and technical methods. This training reflects BDSL’s commitment to digital humanities outreach, particularly toward early-career scholars and academics with limited access to digital humanities resources.
The training largely follows the essential digital humanities readings listed on this page.
As of June 2025, the following academics have received BDSL’s digital humanities training: Donghyeok Choi (HKU), Eric Chow (HKU), Hon Yan Michael Chung (HKUST), Yumeng Hou (NUS), Jenny Kwok (HKU), Penelope Pang (HKU), and Jing Peng (HKU).
Project Incubation
BDSL provides tailored mentorship for both early-career and established academics who wish to develop their digital humanities pilot research. Our team of researchers and industry experts offers help to the incubated project with literature reviews, technical advice, and guidance on grant proposals.
BDSL’s incubation initiative underscores our dedication to the core values of digital humanities, namely collaboration and open exchange of knowledge. The BDSL team has benefited from the generosity of our colleagues and the rigorous training provided by various digital humanities centers throughout the years. In the same spirit, BDSL aspires to share our experience and resources to promote the growth and advancement of digital humanities practices in Hong Kong and globally.
Following a successful test run in May 2022, BDSL accepts submissions for project incubation year-round. To apply, please send your curriculum vitae and a two-page project proposal to javiercha@hku.hk. We particularly welcome projects that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Incubated Projects
| Date | PI | Affiliation | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mathieu Berbiguier | UCLA | Mapping the Authenticity of K-pop: The Reality of Production Network vs. Fandom Interpretation |
| 2022 | Christina Han | Wilfrid Laurier University | Macroanalysis of Everyday Life in Early Modern Korea: A Pilot Computational Analysis of Poetry Talks |
| 2022 | Seung Eun Lee | Hallym University | Building a Database of Late-Chosŏn Yadam |
| 2022 | Tian Li | Harvard University | Media-ted Justice: Law, Ethics, and Social Critique in Korean Screen Media |
| 2022 | Katharina Süberkrüb | University of Hamburg | Diplomacy and Objects in European collections of Korean Art(i)facts: Celadons and Export Paintings |
| 2022 | Giovanni Volpe | Sapienza University of Rome | Reading Practices in Fifteenth-Century Korea: Toward a Digital Humanities Approach |
| 2022 | Martin Weiser | Independent Scholar | Looking for Diversity in North Korean Media Rhetoric |