Public

I am an avid public speaker and regularly present on my research at various venues from large international conferences to more specialized workshops. 

My upcoming and most recent speaking engagements are as follows:

DH2023 Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Associations (2023, Graz, Austria): co-organizer and co-leader of two 4-hour workshops: Amplifying unheard voices in Digital Humanities: an OpenMethods edit-a-thon with Ulrike Wuttke (FH Potsdam) and Christopher Nunn (University of Heidelberg) and Who are the Users in Multilingual DH? A Community Exploration with Cosima Wagner (FU Berlin) and David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi)

32nd Annual Meeting of the World History Association (2023, Pittsburgh, PA): Presenter of the paper "Spectacular Powerhouse" or "Untamed Wilderness"? Imagined Realities in the Representation of Japanese Colonial Taiwan in the Hungarian Print Media (1895-1945)

DARIAH Annual Conference (2023, Budapest): Co-organizer and chair of the meeting for the Multilingual DH working group

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (2023, Boston, MA): Panel co-organizer and presenter in the digital technology roundtable: Computing Texts and Counting Meaning on the Margins: Challenges and Possibilities of Natural Language Processing in Asian Digital Humanities with Cindy Nguyen (UC San Diego), Jeffrey Tharsen (UChicago), and Gian Duri Rominger (Princeton)

Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward (2023, Harvard University): Two presentations: What's in a Footnote? The (In)effectiveness of Annotation Tools for Kanbun in Digital Japanese History and Digital Humanities and East Asian Studies: Lessons from a New Course

OPERAS Advocacy SIG Open Chat Series #1 (2022, online): Moderator for session on "Why advocate for the open scholarly communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences?"

World History Association Annual Conference (2022, Bilbao, Spain): The Representation of Japanese-Korean Colonial Relations in the Hungarian Print Media (1910-1945)

DH Unbound 2022 ACH Conference (2022, online): Title of alternate session: Towards Multilingually Enabled Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: Discussing the Role of the Digital Humanist - with Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin Library) and David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Reality, Utopia, Dystopia: Community Building Power of Invented Traditions Conference, Eötvös Loránd University (2022, Budapest): Spectacle and Horror: Imagined Realities in Colonial Taiwan’s Image in the Hungarian Print Media (1895-1945) - Part of the Area Studies Excellence Program Framework “Community-building: Family and nation, tradition and innovation”

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin /Berlin State Library Werkstattgespräch Series (2021, online): Analog – Digital – Hybrid: Exploring Methodological Varieties in East Asian Intellectual Historiography through the Case of the Japanese Mito School

Humanities Podcasting Symposium (2021, online): Panelist for roundtable: Interdisciplinary Communication

Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship Conference in conjunction with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada (2021, online): Teaching DH and Asia: Methodology-Based Approach to DH Pedagogy in the Context of Area Studies 

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (2021, planned to be held in Seattle but turned online): Visualization as Method: Situating Data Visualizations in the Context of Asian (Digital) Humanities (Digital Technology Roundtable category, chair, organizer, speaker) - with two new members and fresh insights

“Community-building: Family and nation, tradition and innovation” Program Framework Year 2 Conference, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2021, online): The Representation of Japanese-Korean Relations in the Hungarian Press Media (1910-1945). Part of the Area Studies Excellence Program Framework “Community-building: Family and nation, tradition and innovation”

3rd Conference on Digital History in Sweden, Uppsala University (2020, online): Visualizing Mito: Creating a Procedural View of Japanese Intellectual Historiography. Panel title: Visualizing Digital Histories: Images, Maps, Archives

OPERAS Conference (Opening up Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: From Promises to Reality): Timeless Relevance: How Humanista: The Podcast Promotes the Humanities Globally in the panel: How to advocate for social sciences and humanities (invited speaker, 2020, online)

KASEUS Conference (Korean Association of Slavic and Eurasian Studies): invited discussant (2020, online)

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (2020, Boston, MA): Visualization as Method: Situating Data Visualizations in the Context of Asian (Digital) Humanities (Digital Technology Roundtable category, chair, organizer, speaker) - conference cancelled due to the pandemic

HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit (2019, Helsinki, Finland): Visualizing Mito: From text to a procedural view of Japanese intellectual historiography  (presenter)

133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (2019, Chicago, IL): Disruptive Loyalty: The Sociology of Early Modern Japanese History Writing through the Dai Nihonshi (The History of Great Japan, 1657-1906) (poster presentation)

The Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies Redux (2018, Chicago, IL): Creating and Reading Networks (invited speaker)

Global Japan Studies Seminar Series: University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia: Back to the Future: The Untold Story of Mito Through the Dai Nihonshi (2017, invited speaker)

9th Annual Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference (2017, Copenhagen, Denmark): “Situational Phenomenon”: Rethinking the Impact of Comparisons on Content and Method in Transnational East Asian Digital Research (in the panel: “Going Comparative” in Asia)

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (2017, Toronto, Canada): Confucianism as Method: Capturing the Mito Approach to Identity, Ritual, and History Writing in Early Modern Japan (in the panel: Charity, Xenophobia, Collective Identity: Alternative Contexts in the Study of Confucianism in Early Modern China, Japan, and Korea (organizer, presenter)

I also enjoy experimenting with novel platforms and styles to reach diverse audiences. A more recent manifestation of my endeavors in public humanities is focused on podcasting. 

I launched my own podcast series, entitled Humanista: The Podcast (humanistathepodcast.com), to explore the role and significance of the humanities in the 21st century and what we can learn about the world through a humanistic lens. My guests so far have included Michael O’Toole (UChicago) on Belonging, Judit Vihar (Károli University, Budapest) on Dichotomies, Hoyt Long (UChicago) on Intertwinements, Steven Braun (Northeastern) on Imagination, Beatrix Mecsi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) on Visuality, Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin Library) on Enabling, and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra (DARIAH-EU) on Accessification.

It has been my pleasure to speak about this podcast initiative at multiple venues, including at the OPERAS Conference in 2020 (as an invited speaker) on open research communication, as well as at the 1st Humanities Podcasting Symposium in fall 2021, organized by the Humanities Podcast Network.

Digital Public Humanities

I am enthusiastic about experimenting with the diverse manifestations and methods of the umbrella term, digital humanities. I have gained experience in OCR (optical character recognition) processes, text mining, network analysis, and data visualizations - the latter is particularly close to my heart. I am also an avid advocate for multilingualism in DH, with a special focus on non-Western perspectives and non-Latin scripts. I have extensively presented on and written about the state of the field, as well as the beauty and challenges of conducting DH in East Asian studies. Recently, I have also become interested in combining digital methods and East Asian studies with public humanities and heritage studies. As part of this endeavor, I recently participated in the Data Visualization Society's DataVizLive conference for DataViz practitioners and am also part of a working group in conjunction with King's College London's Disrupting Digital Monolingualism workshop with the goal of creating guidelines on making DH infrastructures more inclusive (particularly from the perspective of non-Latin scripts). 

I am also a member of the core Editorial Team for OpenMethods (a DARIAH-EU supported project), which aims to promote novel DH methods and tools with special attention to multilingualism. Further, I am now member of two special interest groups (for Advocacy and Multilingualism) in the OPERAS (Opening Up the Humanities and Social Sciences) framework. My goal is to initiate a collaborative endeavor by connecting the Disrupting Digital Knowledge Infrastructures working group with these two SIGs to make digital humanities more inclusive and multilingual.

In summer 2020, I participated in the inaugural Venice Summer Program on Digital and Public History, which should provide an excellent platform for discussion on best practices to effectively match the "public" with the "digital".

As part of my endeavor to explore Asia from multiple perspectives, I constantly search for diverse platforms to discuss and publicize Asian cultures. As a longtime member of the board of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society, I have been contributing to the mission of this cultural non-profit through my work as editor-in-chief of "Kizuna", the quarterly publication of the Society (since 2012). The Society, which is the premiere organization for the promotion of Japanese culture in Hungary, has had a crucial role in introducing the multilayered nature of this Asian country and its people through cultural programs, lecture series, film screenings, musical, artistic, and other major public events, as well as Japanese language teaching, in all major cities in Hungary with the kind support of the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy in Hungary. 

It has been an honor for me to receive an "Excellence in Contribution to the Promotion of Hungarian-Japanese Relations as a Member of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society" Award from the organization in 2018, which marked the 30th anniversary of the Society's foundation. 

I enjoy experimenting with novel methodologies within and beyond East Asian studies and have participated in four online transcription projects:

• Reading Nature's Library (for the Manchester Museum)

• Star Notes / Project PHaEDRA (for the Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

• In the Spotlight (for the British Library)

• Put a World of Pictures into Words (for UNESCO)

These projects have not only offered great platforms to enrich my digital transcription skills, but have also provided me insights into the characteristics of primary sources that are used in diverse fields beyond my own from botany and astrophysics to theater studies and the work of international organizations.

I am passionate about public speaking whether in communicating my own research findings or by providing presentation-based assignments to students to practice articulating their ideas in a structured and elaborate manner. Self-expression can take diverse forms, therefore I aim to explore and offer novel platforms for students to help them find their own voice, for example through podcasting, writing op-eds, and even visual collection creation through the OMEKA exhibition builder tool. 

Recently, I have also become enthusiastic about web design and the reconsideration of what websites are or can be. Building on the advantages and successes of the "blog+image" project, I plan to offer further options for students for self-expression and to think through the meaning and role of these communication channels - digital and otherwise.