July 2, 2011

Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecture Series: New Developments in Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures

 The Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecture Series in July 2011 will focus on this Center.

 

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New Developments in Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures

 

Time and date: 14:00 to 16:00, every Saturday

Place: Lecture Room, Suekawa Memorial Hall, Ritsumeikan University (Kinugasa Campus) 

 

July 2 (No. 2982)

Topic 

The daily lives of people as see from demographic maps:

Kyoto in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Periods


Lecturer Takashi Kirimura (Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization) 
 

July 9 (No. 2983)

Topic 

Reproducing the landscape and street scenes of Kyoto in the modern era:

From the digitizing of the Kyoto-shi meisai-zu (detailed maps of Kyoto city)


Lecturer Naomi Akaishi (Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization)    
 

July 16 (No. 2984)

Topic 

Peering inside the fune boko (decorative float shaped like a vessel):

New trends in computer graphics


Lecturer Kyoko Hasegawa (Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization)    
 
July 23 (No. 2985)
Topic 

Utilizing printing blocks as research materials:

Building a bibliography of printing blocks    

 

Lecturer Taka’aki Kaneko (Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization)    
 
July 30 (No. 2986)
Topic 

Kyoto seen through medieval battles:

The civil war during the Northern and Southern Courts Period and the capturing of Kyoto


Lecturer Takashi Hanada (Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization)    
 

Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecture Series HP

 

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