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(***UPDATE: Please note that the event will be held online only.***)

The Art Research Center (ARC), Ritsumeikan University, is pleased to announce the Commemorative Public Symposium 'The Kyoto News Archive ~Lights of the Past Reflecting the Future~'.

(*This event is held in Japanese)

Date: July 2 (Saturday), 2022

Time: 14:00 - 16:30 Japan Standard Time

Topic: The Kyoto News Archive ~Lights of the Past Reflecting the Future~

Event Venue: online via Zoom

Registration methods:

Click here to register for online participation via ZOOM. (Online: Capacity of 300 seats, first-come-first-served basis)

Background

In collaboration with the Toy Film Museum in Kyoto, the Art Research Center (ARC), Ritsumeikan University, has been building a digital archive of Kyoto News--a series of news videos produced by the Kyoto City between 1956 (Showa 31) to 1994 (Heisei 6).

During that period of time, it was shown as a newsreel in movie theaters in Kyoto before the start of the main film. As one of the earliest regional newsreels, the videos are a valuable historical testimony of Kyoto City. They have recorded a wide range of topics in the city, including seasonal customs and festivals.

The Kyoto News Archive has partly been completed and opened to the public, so we are holding a public symposium in commemoration of this video series to report on our research outcomes thus far and to discuss the prospects for regional video archives, including the Kyoto News Archive.

Organizer:

International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

Supported by: Kyoto City, Toy Film Museum

Inquiries: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

E-mail: arc-jimu(at)st.ritsumei.ac.jp (please change "at" to @)

URL: https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/

The 104th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, June 29, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. 18:00～18:45

Speaker: Hitomi MOHRI (Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

Topic: The Dawn of Video Games in Japan as Viewed from the Toy Industry

2. 18:45～19:30

Speaker: Chitoko KOIDE (Lecturer, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Osaka Shoin Women's University)

Topic: Prospects and Issues of Game Exhibition in Japan

Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required)

*A YouTube livestream will be available for the second part of the seminar from 18:45 for non-ARC members→via the following link.

The 103rd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, June 8, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speaker: Chikahiko Suzuki (Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Gunma Prefectural Women's University)

Topic: "KaoKore" and "edomi" - Examples of using humanities materials based on microcontents method

Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate via YouTube.

The 102nd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, May 25, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers:

1.Kana Tsuneki (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts (Humanities), National Institute of Technology, Kurume College)

Topic: Shunyodo's Woodblock Print Publications in the Meiji Period: Positioning of Kuchi-e Print Anthologies of Shosetsu souga-shu and Edo nishiki (in Japanese)

2. Biligsaikhan Batjargal (Affiliate Research Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University)

Topic: A trial to classify Mongolian legal documents using deep learning (in English)

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required for ARC members)

A YouTube livestream will be available for the second part of the seminar from 18:45 for non-ARC members → via the following link.

The 101st International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, May 11, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

Topic: Going to War During the Taisho Period: Japan's Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922 as Illustrated by the Pictorial Diaries of Infantryman Takeuchi Tadao

Speaker: Dr. Nadine Willems (Lecturer in Japanese History, School of History, University of East Anglia)

Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate via YouTube.

The 100th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, April 27, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

Topic: KOBAYASHI, Ichizo: Social and Cultural Projects as the Two Wheels of his Business

Speaker: Yoshiyuki SENKAI (Executive Board Member and Director, Itsuō Art Museum; Ichizo Kobayashi Memorial Museum; and Ikeda Bunko, Hankyu Culture Foundation)

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate via YouTube.

The 99th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, April 13, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. Speaker: Mayuko Takeshita (Curator, Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex Restorations and Exhibition Dept.)

Topic: Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex--A New Initiative to Protect Cultural Properties

2. Speaker: Kyoko Hasegawa (Associate Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University)

Topic: Digital Archiving and Visualization of Taima-dera Temple by 3D scanning

Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online via Zoom, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate via YouTube.

The online exhibition 'The Three Kingdoms: The Fellowship of the Water Fishes' is held from February 14 to March 31. As part of this exhibition, we invite you to join our online lecture on March 21, 2022 (free of charge).

The lecture will be given by Prof. Isao Umebayashi (Shitennoji University) whose research project 'Collection and Preservation of Traditional Games from around the world, the Systematization and the Study of Cultural Relevance of them' is among the FY 2021 adopted joint research projects of the International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC).　

Furthermore, Prof. Akinori Nakamura (College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University) and Prof. Koichi Hosoi (College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University), will be presenting their research findings from the Program for Supporting Research Center Formation, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University.

We look forward to your participation!

◆Online Lecture 'The Three Kingdoms: The Fellowship of the Water Fishes' ◆

https://suigyo.gameexhibition.net/topics/

Date：March 21 (Mon), 2022　　16:00-17:30

Online Webinar URL:

→ https://ritsumei-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/97815419256 (Webinar ID: 978 1541 9256)

Organizer: Executive Committee of the Exhibition 'The Three Kingdoms: The Fellowship of the Water Fishes'

Co-organizer: Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies (RCGS), International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

◆Online Exhibition 'The Three Kingdoms: The Fellowship of the Water Fishes' ◆Open until March 31: https://suigyo.gameexhibition.net

As part of the online exhibition 'Encountering Asia: Traveling, Imagination, and Creation of Arts', we will hold an online gallery talk.

<Event> Online Gallery Talk

Date: March 6 (Sun), 2022 13:00 - 15:00 JST → Register here.

Participation: free of charge, via Zoom (e-mail notification will be sent upon registration)

<Online Exhibition> Encountering Asia: Traveling, Imagination, and Creation of Arts (めぐりあいアジア─芸術の移動・想像・創成─)

Exhibition period: March 1 (Tues) - 31 (Thurs), 2022

Free of charge (online).

→Go to exhibition.

The online exhibition 'Encountering Asia: Traveling, Imagination, and Creation of Arts' is jointly held by the Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University, and the International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University.

The project 'Creation of Asian Art Studies', adopted by the Program for Asia-Japan Research Development of the Asia-Japan Research Institute, aims to open up new horizons in the study of the diverse arts in Asia--including Japan--by bringing together a wide range of disciplines, including esthetics, art history, theatre studies, and other arts disciplines, as well as literature, print bibliography, history, comparative cultural history, human geography, and digital humanities.

Theme: Advancing Digital Game and Interactive Narrative Research in the World Beyond COVID-19

Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies will hold an online conference on March 5th and 6th with Henry Lowood of Stanford University Libraries, Jin Ha Lee of the University of Washington, and T.L. Taylor of MIT to discuss the frontiers of game research beyond COVID-19. This conference is supported by the Art Research Center (ARC).

During the pandemic, digital games played a pivotal role in the mediated socialization of people forced to stay at home. While the importance of digital games is now in the spotlight for the general public, activities to preserve them as cultural assets, and scrutinize them from various academic disciplines has gained in popularity globally over several decades. Ritsumeikan University has been involved in game preservation activities and academic game research since 1998. Having a rich background of academic research in digital games, we have decided to hold a two-day online conference that will showcase the results of our research with various partners from Japan and abroad.

In the opening session of this conference, we will focus on the game citation. In recent years, game studies scholarship has started considering citation practices and the various issues involved in citing games accurately. Based on the current state of game citation and the specific issues involved in citing games, this session aims to open up a dialogue about game citation practices in Japan.

Following the opening session, we will hear from Dr. Henry Lowood of the Stanford Libraries and Associate Professor Jin Ha Lee of the University of Washington. They are leading digital videogame preservation endeavors in North America. We will also invite Professor Kazuma Yoshimura of Kyoto Seika University to share his activities in the Kyoto International Manga Museum. Then, we will discuss how Kyoto can cooperate with academics and practitioners in North America to seek ways to collaborate in the field of digital games and media arts while also including manga and animation.

For the second day, we will shift our focus to the future of interactive narrative. The interactive narrative research on digital games has expanded its field and is now being applied to theme parks and other location entertainment. This kind of user experience in attractions with specific themes is based on "Highly Curated Commercial Environment," and the studying this field continues to progresses. Professor T.L. Taylor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak on this topic. She has been researching this topic as the next area after cyberspace and e-sports. Tentative research results for comparative studies regarding theme park regular participants will also be presented.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the research on game preservation and theme park experience studies in North America. If you are interested, please register below by March 4 (Fri) JST 17:00.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vNRMUao_QSSpn57hqFcUwA

(Click here to access the RCGS website.)