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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On <b>June 9th at 12:30 pm (CEST)</b>, we are pleased to host the fifth session of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks 2026. This session will feature a presentation by
<b>Dr. Donghyeok Choi</b> titled \u201c<b>From Reading to Discovery: AI-Assisted Workflows for East Asian Historical Texts</b>.\u201d In this talk, Dr. Choi explores how the craft of historical research is changing in the age of AI through several of his ongoing digital
humanities projects focused on premodern East Asian texts. The abstract is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What does it mean to be a historian in the age of AI? AI is not the first such shift. The digital turn quietly reshaped how historians work. It raised accessibility. A historian today starts a project at a search engine,
pulls sources from a digital archive, and turns archive photographs into research data at home. As Ian Milligan puts it, \u201cwe are all digital now.\u201d If the digital turn brought accessibility, AI brings something accessibility alone could not: machine reading
at the scale of the archive itself. Why scale? Historical research moves through stages: reading, extracting, structuring, analyzing, visualizing, asking new questions. Each works on a single document but breaks at archive scale. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty
hold roughly 384,000 articles across five centuries. Reconstructing the careers of even one generation of officials requires linking and reasoning across more material than a single researcher can manage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In this talk I draw on several ongoing projects, including a vision-language model fine-tuned for Manchu and an agent-based record-linkage system across the Annals and the Bangmok (civil-examination rosters), to argue
that AI does not replace any step in this sequence; it changes the scale at which each becomes possible. The Manchu model does not read more carefully than a Manchu specialist, but it makes an entire archive legible. The linkage system does not match identities
more carefully than a historian by hand, but it tracks the same person across sources that no individual could reconcile end to end. Once reading, linkage, and structuring scale up, questions of a different order become askable: not one official\u2019s career,
but a generation\u2019s; not one local pattern, but the structure of bureaucratic mobility across five centuries. The historian\u2019s craft is unchanged; what changes is what becomes askable. To be a historian in the age of AI is to treat discovery, when the data itself
begins to suggest the questions, as a stage of the craft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">About the speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Donghyeok Choi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a Ph.D. from KAIST\u2019s Graduate School of Culture Technology (2024) and a B.A. in History and a B.E. in
Computer Science Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University. He applies computational and quantitative methods to East Asian history and builds AI-assisted research infrastructure for the humanities. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University
of Hong Kong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please more information on the lecture and the
<b>link </b>to the lecture, please check: <a href="https://blog.crossasia.org/crossasia-dh-lunchtalks-choidh/">
https://blog.crossasia.org/crossasia-dh-lunchtalks-choidh/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Looking forward to seeing many of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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