I am very interested in talking with you about your Asia-related public scholars proposal. By way of background, I am working on a digital project involving an eleventh century Japanese text (Buddhist didactic tales) that will include text encoding and GIS elements, amongst others. Though there are some in Asia-related disciplines that are interested in digital humanities — and we can compare notes on what currently exists out there and who is or might be interested in this — my very strong sense is that digital humanities, at least in North American colleges and universities, is mostly focused on American and European data sets. I’d very much like this to change. So, I’ll leave it at that for now and will certainly attend your session if it flies. I am, by the way, also interested in contemporary East Asia.

Best,

Bill