About us

Alíz Horváth has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago (2019) and currently works as assistant professor of East Asian history and Digital Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). She is interested in the mechanisms of transnational flows within and beyond East Asia and is an avid advocate of linguistic diversity in DH. She has published multiple articles on language sensitivity in DH and on challenges and potential points for collaboration in digital East Asian studies and is currently co-guest editor of a special issue on East Asian studies and DH for the International Journal of Digital Humanities. Beside regularly presenting her work, which innovatively intertwines digital and “analog” methods in the study of transnational (Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) history, at major international conferences, she is also a member of the Core Editorial Team for the DARIAH sustained project, OpenMethods and has been a contributor of the pioneering NEH-funded project, New Languages for NLP, organized by Princeton. 

Cosima Wagner a research librarian at Freie Universität Berlin University Library (Germany), with a background in Japanese Studies, History and Library & Information Science. After ten years as faculty member (research fellow, assistant professor) at the institute for Japanese Studies of Goethe-University / Frankfurt she is since 2013 serving as liaison to the East Asian Studies faculty at Freie Universität Berlin with a special focus on Digital Humanities, Research Data Management and Open Science. Her research interests include a Science & Technology Studies approach to library infrastructure management, multilingualism and non-Latin scripts in the digital space, Area Studies librarianship as well as critical algorithm studies. 

David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). His research interests include comparative approaches to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic, digital spatial approaches to corpora, neural methods for handwritten text recognition across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle East where he has lived and researched since 2002. He co-organized two RTL (right to left) conferences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and also co-founded two digital humanities training events in the Middle East, in Beirut in 2015 and in Abu Dhabi in 2020.