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Dear users, On February 3rd at 12:30 pm (CET), we are pleased to host the first session of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks. The talk will be given by Dr. Yan Hon Michael Chung and is titled “AI for the Humanities: A Case of Manchu OCR.” Dr. Chung will introduce the development pipeline for creating an OCR model for Manchu-language documents and share his reflections on applying AI to humanities research. Manchu, today an endangered language, was once the official language of China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911). The Qing state produced an enormous corpus of Manchu-language documents, many of…