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Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI

  本活动将以英语进行,以下活动资料只提供英文版本。   Inaugural Workshop Date: June 1, 2026 (Mon) Time: 11:00 – 17:00 Venue: Faculty Conference Room, 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong   DH2026 Pre-Conference Date: July 28, 2026 (Tue) Time: 9:00 – 17:00 Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea   The “Playing Heaven” team cordially invites intellectual historians, specialists in early modern East Asia, and scholars in the digital humanities to attend the project launch events to be held at the University of Hong Kong on 1 June 2026 and at DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea on 28 July 2026. “Playing Heaven” is an inter-university collaboration based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and one of the inaugural recipients of the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) grant. The project seeks to rethink the intellectual and cultural history of early modern East Asia with the development of a domain-specific artificial intelligence system. Rather than treating philosophical schools