Daily Archives: February 24, 2015

Princeton Comparative Workshop in Early Military Thought

The East Asian Studies Program and the IHUM present:

Bellum vs zhan 戰: A Comparative Workshop in Early Military Thought

When: April 4th 2015 (Saturday)
Where: 202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

To register please contact Mercedes Valmisa at mvalmisa@princeton.edu. Please indicate if you would like to join for lunch, dinner or both. RSVP before March 10.

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CFP: ASACP 2015 Conference

Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference 2015

Call for Papers

Asian Perspectives on Mind, Action and Cultivation

 
Conference Details

The ASACP Conference 2015 will be hosted by Monash University.
Dates: 10 July (Friday) – 12 July (Sunday) 2015
Venue: Monash University Caulfield Campus, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Topic Modelling Experiment

Ryan Nichols and Ted Slingerland, both longtime readers of this blog, write with an invitation to blog readers to help them out by participating in an experiment. Read on!

Dear Warp, Weft, and Way users,

As affiliates of the University of British Columbia’s Cultural Evolution of Religion Consortium (CERC), we write to invite Warp, Weft, & Way users with some training in classical Chinese to participate in an experiment. Several years ago we embarked on a project to use quantitative methods of analysis, including statistical testing and unsupervised data mining, in order to gain new insights into classical Chinese texts. Our corpus, drawn from Donald Sturgeon’s ctext.org, a resource we all know and enjoy, contains over 5 million characters from texts that date from pre-Warring States through the Tang.

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