September 8, 2008

Timetable Day 1: February 27 (Friday)

■ Start registration
9:00-

■ Opening speech
9:40-9:50
Toyoomi Nagata: Chairman, the Ritsumeikan Board of Trustees

■ Announcements and information
9:50-10:00

■ “What is Digital Humanities?: Its Present and Future”
Coordinators and Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura (Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University) and Keiji Yano (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

[Part 1]
Moderators: Keiji Yano and Kozaburo Hachimura
 
① 10:00-10:20
Keiji Yano: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Historical Geographic Information Systems Group
Geographical Information Systems and Digital Humanities: Revolution or Evolution

② 10:20-10:40
Masao Kawashima: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Director of the Center; and Leader of Kyoto Culture Group
Early Modern Genre Paintings and the Digital Humanities

③ 0:40-11:00
Ryo Akama: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Japanese Culture Group
Roles of Image databases in Art and Cultural Research

④ 11:00-11:20
Kozaburo Hachimura: Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Vice-Director of the Center; and Leader of Digital Archiving Technology Group
Digital Archive of Dancing with Motion Capture

⑤ 11:20-11:40
Mitsuyuki Inaba: Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Web Technology Group
The World Wide Web and Digital Humanities: A Once and Future Discipline

[Lunch] 11:40-13:00

[Part 2] Guest Speakers:
Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura and Keiji Yano

① 13:00-13:40
Neil Fraistat: Professor, University of Maryland, USA
The Digital Humanities, Local and Global

② 13:40-14:10
Eero Hyvönen: Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
CultureSampo: Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0

[Break] 14:10-14:20

③ 14:20-14:50
Ian N. Gregory: Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK
A Place in the Humanities

④ 14:50-15:20
Richard C. Beacham: Professor, King’s College London, UK
The Future of the Past: New Developments in Computer Based Cultural Heritage Research

[Break] 15:20-15:40

[Part 3] Discussion
Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura and Keiji Yano
15:40-16:40

■ Reception
18:30-20:30
Place: Tawawa-Nijo (a restaurant) on the 7th Floor, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University

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