Global Approaches to Multilingual Data Practices and Digital Humanities with David Wrisley

Описание: As part of the Stanford Global Studies funded workshop on “Global Approaches to Multilingual Data Practices and DIgital Humanities,” we hear from Professor Wrisley and his research that has been at the forefront of multilingual DH for years now. The workshop, recorded on May 20, 2025, takes the shape of an open conversation encouraging all attendants to discuss their experiences in multilingual DHl, share their interests in this field, and pose the multilingual questions that remain hard to answer in our digital world.

About the Speaker

David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His current research interests include comparative literary studies (European languages and Arabic), handwritten text recognition across writing systems as well as computer vision applications in the humanities. He co-directs two research projects: OpenGulf (opengulf.github.io) focusing on digital analysis of historical sources from and about the Arabian Gulf and the Paris Bible Project (parisbible.github.io) which uses AI-based transcription and machine learning to study the production and diffusion of Latin Bibles in medieval Europe. He is an advocate for building communities of interdisciplinary digital practice, with a focus on training, infrastructure and open scholarship--regionally and internationally. He is the co-founder of two digital humanities training institutes in Beirut (2015) and Abu Dhabi (2020). A long-term resident of the Arab World, Wrisley taught at the American University of Beirut from 2002 to 2016, after which he joined the faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi.