Creating an Historical Family with AI
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
In recent years I’ve written some articles about early Southeast Asian history, and I don’t like how have written those articles.When you write for a “scholarly” audience, there are certain…
I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…
When I think back on life, I realize that one of the most formative experiences that I had growing up was the time I spent listening.I grew up on a…
In 2017, I wrote a blog post about a tool (AntConc) that can be used to search through texts, and I talked about how we could use that tool to…
Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…
As I have said a million times by now, there is a place name in Chinese historical sources, Sanfoqi 三佛齊, that in the early twentieth century, French scholar George Cœdès…
Off and on over the past few years, I have been researching about a place called “Sanfoqi” 三佛齊. This is a name that appears in Chinese sources from the tenth…
This year, Phan Lê Hà and I, with the support of a wonderful team of associate series editors, editorial board members and a series editorial assistant, launched a new book…
I always enjoy looking around me and trying to get a sense of what is happening in my profession. I’m an historian of Southeast Asian history, but I also have…