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David Jianwei Zhang to Present Digital Humanities Lecture on March 27

Posted by on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in Digital Humanities, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Technology, VRC.

In 2016 Peking University established its own Experimental Teaching Center for Virtual Reality and Simulation in Archaeology. Faculty and students in Peking University’s Department of Cultural Heritage Studies are now systematically investigating and documenting historical buildings in China using such technologies ZhangLectureas panoramic photography, photogrammetry, and 3D scanning. They hope to incorporate these technologies in the research, teaching, and exhibition of cultural heritage sites.

David Jianwei Zhang, chair and assistant professor of the Department of Cultural Heritage Studies in the School of Archaeology & Museology, Peking University, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 27, at 3 pm in Buttrick Hall 344. His lecture is entitled “Turning Historical Buildings into a Digital Research Database: Technology, Methodology and Challenges.”
Zhang will discuss the case of the Kaihua Monastery, an 11th-century Buddhist monastery in the Taihang Mountain range of north central China, to demonstrate the methods that scholars at Peking University are using to advance their research and teaching with digital technology.
Free and open to the public, Zhang’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of History of Art, Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, and the Asian Studies Program.

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