The Present and Future of the Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University is a Global Center of Excellent (COE) Program, designated by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and Technology. Since the Center’s start in June 2007, we have been conducting education and research, aiming at creating a new type of the humanities that fully utilize information technologies so that we could bridge the gap between Japanese Studies in Japan and abroad, as well as lead the humanities in the future.The upcoming symposium is to summarize the Center’s research and educational activities in the past five years.  

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OUTLINE

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Day 1: November 19, Saturday, 10:00-17:30

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Day 2: November 20, Sunday, 9:30-17:30

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Poster Presentations and Demos on Days 1 and 2 (November 19 and 20)

During the time of the symposium, the Center’s young researchers will set booths for poster presentations and demos at the Multipurpose Room, Art Research Center, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

• Akihiro Tsukamoto:
  “Unfolding the Landscape Drawing Method of Rakuchū Rakugai Zu Screen Paintings in a GIS Environment,”
  “The Drawn Area of Published Kyoto Maps in the Edo Period,” and
  “Precision Research of Surveyed Maps of Kyoto in the 17th Century”
• Toshikazu Seto, Ayako Matsumoto, and Takafusa Iizuka:
  "GIS-Based monitoring systems for Kyo-machiya in Kyoto city"
• Takashi Kirimura:
  “Social Atlas of Kyoto in the 20th Century”
• Masako Yamamoto and Naomi Akaishi:
  “Distribution of Dyeing and Weaving Manufacturers from ‘Large-scale Maps of Kyoto City’”
• Tatsunori Kawasumi, Takanori Hashimoto, Yutaka Takase, and Keiji Yano:
  "Construction of Virtual Nagaoka-kyo 3D map and landscape simulation"
• Tatsunori Kawasumi:
  "GIS-Based Landscape Visualization and Visibility Analysis of the Mountain View in Heian-Kyo, a Capital City of Ancient Japan"
• Atsuko Oya and Manabu Ueda:
  “Digital Reconstruction of Kanamaru-za Theater”
• Takaaki Kaneko:
  “Construction of a Printing Block Digital Archive and its Use in Studies of Early Modern Publishing”
• Monika Bincsik and Shinya Maezaki:
  "Fostering International Cooperation to Create a Digital Archive of Japanese Decorative Arts"
• Kohei Furukawa:
  “Digital Reconstruction of Kanamaru-za Theater”
• Liang Li:
  "Virtual Yamahoko Parade in Kyoto Gion Festival"
• Alejandro Toledo:
  "Visual Recommendations from Japanese Historical Diary"
• Worawat Choensawat:
  "The Use of Labanotation for Choreographing a Noh-Play"
• Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn:
  "Visual Analytics Tool for Visitor Circulation"

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Dr. Makoto Nagao

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President, National Diet Library.

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Prof. Simon C Lin

Currently the Project Director of International Collaboration Division for the Taiwan eLearning and National Digital Archive Program (TELDAP). Dr. Lin pioneered the Digital Library/Museum Pilot Project in Academia Sinica which later led to the National Digital Archive Program. The “National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan” (NDAP, Taiwan) was first launched in 2002. Over the past few years, the NDAP has generated approximately 322.9 Terabytes of digitized content (with 5.28 millions Items) from 16 thematic groups ranging from Anthropology to Zoology.

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Dr. Akihiro Kinda

President, National Institutes for the Humanities. 1946年富山県生まれ。京都大学大学院文学研究科博士課程を単位取得退学。京都大学教授、同大学院文学研究科長、同副学長、理事などを経て、2008年より現職。

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Prof. Seishi Namiki

Director, Museum and Archives; Director, Center for Education and Research of Cultural Heritage, Kyoto Institute of Technology.

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Dr. Ellis Tinios

Honorary Lecturer, University of Leeds. Dr Ellis Tinios taught East Asian History in the School of History, University of Leeds, for 24 years. In those years, he served as curator for three exhibitions on Japanese art at the Leeds University Gallery. Since taking early retirement in 2002, he has pursued his interest in the illustrated books and prints produced in Japan between 1600 and 1900. His institution links include visiting researcher at the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, and special assistant to the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. He teaches a course of Japanese illustrated books each year at the Freer-Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia. His most recent publication is Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 (British Museum Press, 2010).

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