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Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Reading Games, Playing Stories: A Book Talk with Edmond Y. Chang & Timothy J. Welsh (In Person)
Join the OSC Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio for a relaxed and engaging book talk with Edmond Y. Chang and Timothy J. Welsh, authors of Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide. If you’ve ever wished there were better ways to talk about games in the classroom, or if you just love thinking deeply about the games you play, this event is for you.
Their book breaks down how video games can be “read” much like literature, using 24 case studies that range from classics like Tetris to story-rich favorites like Undertale, Gone Home, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Chang and Welsh offer practical teaching ideas and approachable methods for studying games without losing the joy of play, and they make a compelling case for why games belong in literary and cultural studies. Together, they explore what “close playing” looks like in practice and how these ideas can shape classrooms, research, and creative projects, all while keeping storytelling, mechanics, and player experience at the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM.
Reading Games, Playing Stories: A Book Talk with Edmond Y. Chang & Timothy J. Welsh (Online)
Join the OSC Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio for a relaxed and engaging book talk with Edmond Y. Chang and Timothy J. Welsh, authors of Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide. If you’ve ever wished there were better ways to talk about games in the classroom, or if you just love thinking deeply about the games you play, this event is for you.
Their book breaks down how video games can be “read” much like literature, using 24 case studies that range from classics like Tetris to story-rich favorites like Undertale, Gone Home, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Chang and Welsh offer practical teaching ideas and approachable methods for studying games without losing the joy of play, and they make a compelling case for why games belong in literary and cultural studies. Together, they explore what “close playing” looks like in practice and how these ideas can shape classrooms, research, and creative projects, all while keeping storytelling, mechanics, and player experience at the…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM.
Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
TEAL Digital Scholarship Series 2025-26: Detecting Shifts in Linguistic Register in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025-2026 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by scholars in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. This series highlights how innovative digital tools and methodologies are transforming East Asian scholarship, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and broadening the impact of research within and beyond academia.
Detecting shifts in linguistic register in late imperial Chinese fiction: Fine-tuning language models to detect fictionalized memorials to the emperor
Paul Vierthaler, Assistant Professor at the Princeton University
Abstract: It is common in late imperial Chinese literature for novels to appropriate the voice of officialdom for a variety of purposes, often as a means of bolstering historical credibility. While this appropriation can manifest in a variety of ways, it often comes in the form of verbatim quotations from memorials that officials wrote to the emperor. Some such…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Tateuchi East Asia Library (Gowen 3rd) Seminar Room. Accessibility Contact: hkyi@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.