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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

> TO: DH-JAC2009 (English) HP

September 8, 2008

Timetable Day 2: February 28 (Saturday)

[Morning]
8:30- Start registration
8:55-9:00 Announcements and information

■ Reports on Research Results by Young Researchers, Participants of the International Training Program
9:00-11:40
Moderators: Mitsuyuki Inaba and Hidehiko Kanegae

① 9:00-9:25
Satoshi Ōtsuki: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
How to Preserve and/or Conserve Historical Districts by Residents Themselves?: Case Studies of Thailand

② 9:25-9:50
Tetsuo Mizuta: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ritsumeikan-Global Innovation Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
World Heritage Site Ayutthaya's Flood Loss Estimation as Risk Management, and Lectures as a Feedback of Research Activities

③ 9:50-10:15
Shin Ōno: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Research of Visualized Environment for Historical Events

[Break] 10:15-10:25

④ 10:25-10:50
Atsuko Ōya: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Handling of Non-film Materials in the Makino Mamoru Collection of C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University

⑤ 10:50-11:15
Seiya Tsuruta: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Extraction of Emotional Information from Music for Virtual Dance Collaboration System

⑥ 11:15-11:40
Aki Ishigami: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
Survey of Shunga and Ehon in Overseas Collections

⑦ 11:40-11:50
Comments by Sarah Thompson: Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which accepted our ITP scholars

[Lunch]11:50-13:00

■ “Innovation of Image Database and Museum Networks: Globalization and Networking of Studies of Japanese Cultures and Arts”
Coordinator and Moderator:Ryo Akama: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
13:00-13:10
Introduction by Ryo Akama

【Part 1】 Guest Speakers:
Keynote speech
13:10-13:50
Josef Kreiner: Special Professor, Hosei University; Professor Emeritus, University of Bonn, Germany
Japanese Collections in Europe: Their role within the Japanese Studies and their Significance for the Formation of the Image of Japan

Case reports
①13:50-14:20
Helena Honcoopová: Director of the Collection of Oriental Art, National Gallery in Prague, Czech
Collections of Japanese Arts in the Czech Republic and their Digitation

②14:20-14:50
Sarah Thompson: Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Abraham Schroeder: Research Assistant for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Japanese Print Access and Documentation Project (JPADP) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)

③14:50-15:20
Rosina Buckland: Research Assistant (Japanese Paintings), Japanese Section, Dept. of Asia, British Museum
Taking the British Museum to the World: Collections Online

[Break] 15:20-15:40

【Part 2】 Discussion
15:40-17:10
Moderator: Ryo Akama
Discussants: Guest speakers of the Part 1

■ Closing Speech
17:10-17:20
Masao Kawashima: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University

> TO: DH-JAC2009 (English) HP

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