Organizer: Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University; Southeast Asia Digital Library
Type/Location: Virtual
Description:
Hosted by librarians Emily Zinger (Cornell University) and Brent Bianchi (Yale University), this webinar will provide an overview of Yale’s Maurice Durand papers, as well as current work with the Digitizing Việt Nam project. Our first speaker, Trâm Phương Nguyễn, Ph.D. (Columbia University) will focus on the Hán-Nôm collection that she and her colleagues are working on and the digital humanities tools in development specifically for this collection and Hán-Nôm studies. She will also discuss how this collection has been formed and its accessibility to the public. Our second speaker, Thành Hà Thị Tuệ (Vietnam National University) will describe their work with the Maurice Durand papers, focusing particularly on 3 Hán Nôm texts: The Tale of Kiều; the dictionary 大南國音字彙; and Tú Xương thi tập 陳濟昌詩集.
