Conference Convening
1、Organizer, 2025 CCF Conference on Humanities and Artificial Intelligence
2、Lead Organizer, Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (2021–2025)
3、Chair, ChinaVis Data Challenge (2022–2025)
4、“Museum Digital Infrastructure and Data Revitalization” Academic Symposium, September 12, 2025
5、“Digital-Intelligent Cultural Heritage: Cultural Preservation and Innovation within the Spatio-Temporal Framework of Civilization”, Center for Digital Humanities and Innovation, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University, June 2, 2023
6、“Symposium on Talent Cultivation Models for Art and Cultural Creativity Programs in Comprehensive Universities”, School of Arts, Nanjing University, November 14, 2020
7、“Rethinking Digital Humanities in Comparative Perspective” Academic Symposium, Center for Digital Humanities and Innovation, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University, April 28, 2019
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
1、Chen Gang, Lu Andong, Chen Jing: “Digital Atlas of Ancient Chinese Cities.” Excellent Dataset Case, A-Class Poster. The 1st CCF Conference on Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, China Computer Federation, December 2025.
2、Chen Jiayun, Zhao Haoyue, Chen Junzhou, Guo Shicong, Chen Yongkang, Chang Sunhaotian, Yu Hang, Qiu Weiyun, Wang Tao, Chen Jing, et al.: “Chinese Thinkers Dataset.” The 1st CCF Conference on Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, China Computer Federation, December 2025. (Lab report)
3、Chen Gang, Lu Andong, Chen Jing: “Digital Atlas of Ancient Chinese Cities.” 2025 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025), Joint Institute for Digital Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University; Digital Humanities Lab, Sun Yat-sen University; Sun Yat-sen University Library, November 2025.
4、Chen Zhichao, Chen Jing, Chen Jiayun, Guo Shicong, Chen Xin, Wang Youlin, Xia Siqi, Wang Mingjun, Pang Sirui, Jiang Yunfang: “Agent-Driven Digital Curation: A Study on Human-Machine Collaborative Models and Practical Pathways.” 2025 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025), Joint Institute for Digital Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University; Digital Humanities Lab, Sun Yat-sen University; Sun Yat-sen University Library, November 2025.
5、Qiu Weiyun, Chen Jiayun, Chen Junzhou, Chen Yongkang, Chang Sunhaotian, Yu Hang, Wang Tao, Chen Jing: “From ‘Ziyue’ to ‘Living Thoughts’: The Impact of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Driven Confucius Large Language Model on the Transmission and Innovation of Intellectual History and the Evaluation Criteria for Humanities-Oriented Large Language Models.” 2025 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025), Joint Institute for Digital Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University; Digital Humanities Lab, Sun Yat-sen University; Sun Yat-sen University Library, November 2025.
6、Chen Jing, Paul Spencer: “Transnational Connections and Barriers in Digital Humanities: A UK-China Case Study.” DH2025, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Lisbon, Portugal, 2025.
7、Jiang Yunfang, Chen Jing, Wang Youlin, Chen Zhichao, Wang Tianran, Wang Mingjun, Chen Xin, Xia Siqi, Guo Shicong, Pang Sirui: “Exploring Narrative Generation Pathways for Children’s Serious Games Based on Museum Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs.” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
8、Wang Dazhong, Chen Jing, Lu Andong, Chen Gang, Cheng Yi, Yang Jinpei, Liao Minyi, Cao Mengting, Jiang Yunfang, Meng Shengkun, Guo Shicong, Sun Chang, Yang Chang, Shen Zhenzhen: “Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Ancient County-Level Cities: The Construction of the ‘Digital Atlas Platform of Chinese Ancient Cities.’” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
9、Chen Jiayun, Chen Junzhou, Chen Yongkang, Yu Hang, Chang Sunhaotian, Wang Tao, Qiu Weiyun, Chen Jing: “Ziyue: Chinese Thinker – Confucius.” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
10、Mengqi Li, Jing Chen, Jiajie Wang, Zihong Chen, Yifei Li, Cheng Mi: “AI-Driven Digital Curation Path and Practical Research: A Case Study of the Digital Museum of Human Civilization.” International Symposium “New Life: When Digital Humanities Enters the Museum,” University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong & School of Arts, Nanjing University, January 2024.
11、Chen Jing, Wang Jiajie, Zheng Yuning: “A Study on the Emotional Measurements of Literary Geography from a Digital Humanities Perspective.” Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Poster presentation, University of Graz, 2023.
12、Mengqi Li, Jiajie Wang, Zihong Chen, Hanyue Du, Jing Chen: “Awakening the Material in the Network of Things through Data-Driven Semantic Analysis.” Cultural Data Analytics Conference, Tallinn University, December 2023. (Also presented at the 5th Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (2023) and “Transformations in Museums through Digital Initiatives,” The University of Hong Kong, 2024.)
13、Chen Jing, Chen Zihong: “Using Clustering Algorithms to Analyze the Color Effects of Nanjing Brocade Images” (Conference presentation). Forum on Color Perception and Visual Restoration: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese Colors, 2022.
14、Chen Jing, Lin Wensi: “Digital Preservation and Display Pathways of Nanjing Brocade Colors.” The 2nd International Symposium on Natural Dyes: “Reconstructing the Colors of the Past,” co-organized by Department of Culture and Tourism of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration, and China National Silk Museum, 2021.
15、Lin Wensi, Zhang Mengyue, Wang Jisheng, Li Mengqi, Chen Jing: “The Experimental Restoration of the Colour of Nanjing Brocade from China.” Proceedings of the International Colour Association (AIC) Conference 2021.
16、Lik Hang Tsui, Jing Chen: “Defining and Debating Digital Humanities in China: New or Old.” In Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
17、“On the Construction of a Virtual Grand Canal Museum from the Perspective of Digital Humanities.” Annual Conference of the Jiangsu Comparative Literature Association, August 25–26, 2018.
18、“Advertising Chinese Modern Society: graphesis, concept modeling, historical method”, the 7th Social Media Process, Haerbing, August 2-4, 2018.
19、“From Image to Knowledge: Visual Knowledge Production in the Advertisements of Modern China”, Perking University, Beijing, June 13-15, 2018.
20、“Advertising Chinese Modern Society: graphesis, concept modeling, historical method”, Digital Humanities Asia, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford April 27-28, 2018.
21、“A Prehistory of Digital Humanities in China”, the 2018 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., March 22-25, 2018.
22、“Digital Humanities in Nanjing University”, International Conference on Cyberinsfrastructure for Chinese Historical Studies, Harvard China Center, Shanghai，March 14-16, 2018.
23、“From Image to Knowledge: Visual Knowledge Production in Republican-Era Advertisements.” International Conference on Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2017, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, November 29 – December 1, 2017.
24、“Data Narrative: Digital Humanities in China.” Academic Conference on “Posthuman Context and the Future of Literary Theory Research,” September 23–24, 2017.
25、“Image, Visualization, and Display: Visual Knowledge Production of Images.” Conference Convener and Panel Organizer, “Digital Humanities: Frontiers and Explorations of Humanities Research in the Big Data Era,” Nanjing University, July 1–2, 2017.
26、“The Current State of Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Research in China.” International Workshop on Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, Tsinghua University, June 10–11, 2017.
27、“Commercial Advertising Ephemera and the Meaning Mining of Images,” “Digital Humanities and History Studies,” the 2nd forum of Digital Humanities, Peking University, May 26, 2017.
28、“ Computation and Humanities: Digital Humanities as a new field,” the 10th R conference, Tsinghua University, May 21, 2017.
29、“Concept Modeling and Advertising Chinese Modern Society,” “Digital Scholars, an emerging profession？,” the 7th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities，the National Taiwan University, Taiwan，December 1-3.
30、“Fundamental Issues of New Media Art Thoery,” “Studies on Framework of Literary Knowledge” ，Renmin University of China, November 19-20, 2016.
31、“Concept Modeling the Advertising Chinese Modern Society,” Digital Humanities 2016 Conference, July 11-16, 2016.
32、“The King of Shanzhai: Internet based Innovations in China,” the Workshop of “Digital Era and Everyday Experience Critique of Contemporary China, Nanjing University, July 2-3.
33、“The King of Shanzhai: Internet based Innovations in China”, The 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, March 31-April 3, 2016.
34、“The Chinese Commercial Advertising Archive: a Digital Ephemera Project Workshop,” Rice University, April 4-5, 2016.
35、Digital Archiving Advertising Ephemera: a Case of Commercial Chinese Advertisement Archive,” “ History Studies in Big Data Era”，Shanghai University, December 4-5, 2015.
36、“Image and Transformation of Media: Production of Visual Knowledge in Digital Age,” the forum of Young Scholars of Art Science, Nanjing University of Art, June 12-15.
37、“From Images to Data: Metadating Chinese Commercial Advertisements ”, Around the World Internet Conference, University of Alberta, April 30, 2015 .
38、“Statistics and Digital Humanities”, 2014 Tsinghua-Sanya Workshop on Big Data: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations, December 27-30, 2014.
39、“Concept Network: From Chinese Commercial Newspaper Advertisement to the Sociological Theory in Modern China”, the Workshop of “From Humanities to Digital Humanities”(with Ke Deng), National Chengchi University, Taiwan, December 5-6, 2014.
40、“Digitally Archiving Advertising Ephemera: The Case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, the Fifth International Conference of Digital Archive and Digital Humanities, Academia Sinica Digital Center; Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, December 1-2, 2014.
41、“‘Metadating’ Advertisement: The case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, Advertising and Marketing in China: Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters (19th c. – Present), Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco, November 13-14.
42、“From Images to Data: Metadating Chinese Commercial Advertisements ”, Around the World Internet Conference, University of Alberta, April 30, 2015 .
43、“What Changed: Ephemera from Printing to Digital”, the Ephemera Workshop of “Ephemera: Current and Future”, Rice University, December 6-7, 2013.
44、“Digitizing Historical Ephemera”, 2013 Harvard Radcliffe Exploratory Workshop on Text Mining in Literary Chinese, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, October 18–19, 2013.
45、“The Digital Archiving of Ephemera: Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive”, the Ephemera Workshop of “Defining Ephemera”, Rice University, December 8-9, 2012.
46、“Refashioning the Print Literature: Internet Literature in China ”, the 5th Electronic Literature Organization Conference (ELO) , sponsored by West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, June 20-23,2012.
47、“Between the Virtual and the Real: Living Condition of Post-human in China,” the Second “Sino-British Bilateral Forum on Marxist Aesthetics”, Manchester University, April 10-16, 2012.
48、“As a new revolution: Electronic Literature in New Media Age”, 2011 Annual Conference of Chinese Comparative Literature Association, co-sponsored by Fudan University, Shanghai Normal University, 13-14 July, 2011(also as the panel organizer).
49、“Rethinking the text(uality) in Digital Context”, “Ephemera and Archives Workshop”, Rice University, 2-4 December, 2011.
50、“Internet Literature in China: A New Literary Revolution?”, Comparative Literature in the Phase of World Literature: The Fifth Sino-American Symposium on Comparative Literature, co-sponsored by Institute of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harvard University and Tsinghua University, 22-23 August, 2010.
Invited Lectures
1、December 18, 2024: “Construction of Cultural Big Data Resource Platforms and the Mining of Their Humanistic Value.” Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
2、December 1, 2024: “The Digital Reconstruction of the City and Literature.” School of Humanities, Shenzhen University.
3、December 1, 2024: “Digital Society and the Digital Literacy of Future Citizens.” School of Humanities, Shenzhen University.
4、November 23, 2024: “A Digital Humanities Reconstruction of Urban Cultural Context.” School of Design, Nanjing University of the Arts.
5、November 23, 2024: “Clout-chasing or ‘Content is King’?: The Dilemma of Museum Digitization.” East China Normal University.
6、November 18, 2024: “The History, Current State, and Value of Digital Humanities.” Capital Library.
7、October 16, 2024: “The Future of Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage.” Nanjing Agricultural University.
8、July 10, 2024: “Applications of Digital Humanities Research in Exhibitions.” Graduate Summer School on Frontiers of Visualization Development, Peking University.
9、June 26, 2024: “Perceiving the Yangtze River: Infrastructures of the Yangtze River Based on Multimodal Big Data.” School of Design, Nanjing University of the Arts.
10、February–May 2024: Lecture Series, Department of Digital Humanities, University College London (UCL).
11、February 1, 2024: “From Digitization to Graphesis: Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage.” The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
12、October 29, 2023: “Heritage Digitization and Digital Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” Southeast University.
13、October 27, 2023: “Future Heritage in the Digital Age: Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage.” School of Chinese Language and Literature, Hebei Normal University.
14、October 22, 2023: “Knowing, Making, and Understanding: Digital Transmission and Value Mining of Intangible Cultural Heritage.” Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences & Division of Documentation and Cultural Heritage Management, Sun Yat-sen University.
15、July 5, 2023: “Digital Humanities and the Digital Transformation of Local Culture.” Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).
16、March 2, 2023: “Digital Humanities and the Big Data of the Humanities.” Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).
17、December 19, 2022: “Three Approaches to the Integration of Art and Technology.” School of Arts and Humanities, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
18、November 17, 2022: “The Grand Canal through Images: Heritage Digitization from a Digital Humanities Perspective.” Soochow University.
19、November 11, 2021: “The Literary Map of Nanjing and an Analysis of the ‘Jinling Imagery’ in Tang Poetry.” Fu Xuancong Academic Lecture Series, Tsinghua University.
20、August 6, 2021: “Image Metadata and Visual Knowledge Production: A Case Study of Digital Images of Newspaper Advertisements, Historical Photographs, and Cultural Heritage.” China Society of Indexers.
21、July 7, 2020: “Artificial Intelligence and Gender Bias.” Zaojiu (Talks).
22、March 30, 2020: “Digital Humanities and Humanities Data.” Tianjin University.
23、December 21, 2018: “An Introduction to Foundational Theories, Cases, and Methods of Digital Humanities.” School of Chinese Language and Literature, Shanghai University.
24、October 25, 2018: “Reflections on the Current Situation and Significance of ‘Digital Humanities’ in Contemporary China.” Shanghai University.
25、April 6, 2018: “Why Do We Need DH?: Digital Humanities in China.” Yale University.
26、March 18, 2018: “Can Cyborgs Change the Future of Gender?” Zaojiu (Talks), “Fluid Gender” Lecture Series.
27、January 19, 2018: “Frontiers of Humanities Research and Cultural Heritage Reflection in the Age of Big Data.” Advanced Seminar on Big Data, Cloud Computing, and New Methods in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University.
28、December 17, 2017: “Seeing the Creases of History: ‘War Records’ in Digital Archives.” Sifang Art Museum.
29、November 30, 2017: “Ephemera of Modern Chinese Newspaper Advertisements and Their Digitization.” National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
30、October 29, 2017: “What Kind of Artificial Intelligence Do We Need?” Kuang-Chi Institute for Advanced Technology, Shenzhen.
Art Projects
1、Curator, December 15, 2024 – January 13, 2025, “MoBen Moment,” School of Arts, Nanjing University.
2、Curator, June 2023, “Literary Capital in Time and Space: A Big-Data Distant Reading of Nanjing Literature,” School of Arts, Nanjing University.
3、Host, 2021–2022, “Wanlai Project” Artist-in-Residence, Acoustics Media Lab, Nanjing University. (Artists: Deng Yuejun, Shi Qing, Yin Yi, Sima Yuan)
4、Academic Advisor, 2020, “Heavenly Descends RE Animal: Nanjing Traditional Craft Innovation Pop-up,” Nanjing Cultural Center.
5、Academic Advisor, 2019, “ZHI Yi: Virtual Exhibition of Nanjing Traditional Craft Intangible Cultural Heritage,” supported by Nanjing Art Fund 2018 and Cultural and Creative Industry Support Project of Nanjing University 2019.
6、Academic Advisor, 2019, “Brocade Colors: Digital Preservation Achievements of Nanjing Brocade,” Jiangnan Silk Culture Museum.
7、Curator, November 2019, “Augmented Creativity: Decoding AI and Generative Art” (co-curator: Jason Bailey), School of Architecture, Nanjing University (Gulou Campus).
8、Curator, December 20, 2017 – January 19, 2018, “Maurice Benayoun: Just Dig It!,” Art Museum of Nanjing University.
9、Curator, December 20, 2017 – January 19, 2018, “Boundary Diggers: A New Media Art Exhibition by Faculty and Students of Nanjing University and City University of Hong Kong” (with Maurice Benayoun), Art Museum of Nanjing University.
10、Academic Advisor, 2016–2017, “Craft Revival · Intangible Heritage” International Master Residency, Nanjing University.
11、Curator, 2015, “Immersive: Encountering Tuscany,” Nanjing Jiangning Fangshan Art Camp.
12、Host, 2015, Italian Painter Jinling Residency Project, Nanjing University.
