Events

To mark World Digital Preservation Day 2026, Digitizing Việt Nam is pleased to share this free online event from the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

The web is part of our daily lives, but the digital world so many of us depend on is far more fragile than it seems. Join a panel discussion on the current risks to our digital heritage and what is being done to preserve our collective cultural memory.

🎙 Chair: Prof. David De Roure (Oxford)
🎙 Speakers: Dr Andrea Kocsis, Andrea Mills (Internet Archive Canada) and Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt (AI@Oxford Research, Open Data Institute)

🗓 Thu, 5 Nov 2026 · 15:00–16:30 UK (22:00–23:30 Vietnam time)
💻 Online · Free · Registration required by Tue 3 Nov, 17:00 UK
🔗 Register: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/online-registration-world-digital-preservation-day-cache-it-if-

Digitizing Việt Nam is pleased to share the Digital Humanities Salon: “Experiments in Digital Humanities and AI,” hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library.

The team is testing how well AI can (or can’t) transcribe handwriting across a diverse, multilingual set of materials. These range from 17th-century Florence to 20th- and 21st-century Egypt and the Caribbean, and from modern English handwriting to manuscripts in Tuscan Italian, Latin, German, French and Spanish. This in-progress talk will share early findings from the collaborative project.

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 12:00–1:00 PM EST (Fri, Nov 6 · 00:00–01:00 Vietnam time)
Speakers: Anya Lewis-Meeks and Haley Price
Join on Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/96620916977

Digitizing Việt Nam is pleased to share this free online session on Cao Đài in Vietnam, part of the Religion and Thought in East Asia series from Asia for Educators, Columbia University.

Facilitated by Janet Hoskins (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, USC), the session opens with a 30-minute overview, followed by 30 minutes of discussion on approaches to teaching the topic. It’s designed for educators, and open to anyone interested in Vietnamese religion and culture.

📺 Recommended viewing beforehand: The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California (USC).

🗓 Wed, Nov 18, 2026 · 8:00–9:00 PM ET (Thu, Nov 19 · 08:00–09:00 Vietnam time)
💻 Online via Zoom · Free
🔗 Register: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/o0yla9GTRUiRj52bbHzZJg