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January 21, 2012
The 1st Symposium on Knowledge, Art and Cultural Informatics
The 1st Symposium on Knowledge, Art and Cultural Informatics
With the rapid developments in digital and information environments these days, many cross-disciplinary academic researches have also been conducted with “information” and “digital” aspects in mind. This trend has even become more prominent within tertiary education and research activities, giving rise to educational programs or courses and faculties related to the information and digital fields.
There is an increasing demand for opportunities where academic exchanges can be made between graduate students and young researchers through such curricula that provide new research topics in line with the present time.
Thus the Symposium on Knowledge, Art and Cultural Informatics was created in order to provide a place for presentations and exchanges, targeting mainly at young researchers interested in research on information or knowledge related to art, culture and other aspects. This symposium aims to provide an opportunity where participants from various disciplines can discover new research topics and methodologies through making exchanges with each other. We hope it will allow researchers to give developing and endeavoring presentations somewhat different from conventional academic conferences.
December 17, 2011
International Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Assets: Methods of Preserving Memories of Things
A symposium titled “The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Assets: Methods of Preserving Memories of Things” will be held as detailed below. Please come and participate.
International Symposium
The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Assets: Methods of Preserving Memories of Things
The symposium ended successfully. We would like to thank the many people who participated in the symposium.
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| Date: | Saturday, December 17 and Sunday December 18, 2011 |
| Place: | Great Lecture Room, Ritsumeikan Univeristy (Suzaku Campus) |
| Sponsored by: | MEXT Global COE Program “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures” (Ritsumeikan University), Art Research Center (Ritsumeikan University) |
Free participation, booking required.
For more information see ＞＞The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Assets: Methods of Preserving Memories of Things
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November 27, 2011
Young Researchers
The number of theme-based PhD students currently enrolled
Since the second semester of 2007, the Center has been giving entrance examinations with a focus on theme-based thesis to educate PhD students aiming to obtain a degree based on the research topics of the Center. Graduate students who pass the examination will either be hired as RA or as working people considered doing the PhD course as another job on the side.
| Academic Year 2007 | Academic Year 2008 | Academic Year 2009 | Academic Year 2010 | Academic Year 2011 | |||||
| Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | |
| First year students | 2 | 5(2) | 4(2) | 6(3) | 6(4) | 6(1) | 5 | 2(1) | 3(2) |
| Second year students | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5(2) | 4(2) | 6(3) | 6(4) | 6(1) | 5 |
| Third year students | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5(2) | 4(2) | 6(3) | 6(4) |
| Fourth year students | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 2 | 5(2) | 6(2) | 11(5) | 12(6) | 17(6) | 16(6) | 16(5) | 16(6) |
( ) denotes international students
Number of RAs/PDs
Research Assistants The Center hires PhD students aiming to obtain their degrees while participating in research projects as research assistants (RAs). The Center’s RAs are divided into 4 categories, including RA1—PhD students who entered the university through a theme-based examination (up until academic year 2009).
Postdoctoral Fellows The Center welcomes young researchers who have obtained their PhD degrees as Postdoctoral fellows (PDs) and research members of the Center. There are 3 categories of PDs, including “Center PD” hired by the Center, Special Researcher (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and other PDs hired under various systems at the university. The PDs take part in research projects, gaining experience as researchers as they further their own research work.
Academic Year 2007 | Academic Year 2008 | Academic Year 2009 | Academic Year 2010 | Academic Year 2011 | |||||
| Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | First Semester | Second Semester | |
| RA1 | 2 | 4(2) | 4(1) | 9(4) | 10(5) | 9(5) | 8(5) | 6(4) | 5(4) |
| RA2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6(1) | 8(2) |
| RA3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| RA+ | 1 | 0 | 2(2) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 |
| Total number of RAs | 10 | 14(2) | 17(3) | 16(4) | 17(6) | 17(5) | 16(6) | 14(5) | 14(6) |
| Center PDs | 4(2) | 8(2) | 9(2) | 10(3) | 10(2) | 11(1) | 10(1) | 8(2) | 8(2) |
| JSPS PDs | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Other PDs | 2 | 1(1) | 1(1) | 2 | 4(1) | 4(1) | 5(1) | 5(1) | 5(1) |
Total number of PDs | 6(2) | 10(3) | 12(3) | 13(3) | 15(3) | 16(2) | 17(2) | 14(3) | 14(3) |
| Total number of PDs/RAs | 15(2) | 24(5) | 29(6) | 29(7) | 32(9) | 33(7) | 32(8) | 28(8) | 28(9) |
( ) denotes international students
Number of students having obtained their PhD degrees
The figures indicate the number of PhD students hired by the Center (who were enrolled under the theme-based system) and RAs who have obtained their PhD degrees.
Academic Year 2007 | Academic Year 2008 | Academic Year 2009 |
| 4 (0) | 2 (0) | 3 (0) |
( ) denotes international students
November 19, 2011
The 2nd International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2011)
The 2nd International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2011)
The Present and Future of the Digital Humanities
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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.
detailed information＞＞DH-JAC2011
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November 1, 2011
Research Members in the second half FY2011
- Project Members(affiliated to Ritsumeikan University, otherwise mentioned)
- Visiting Professors
- Visiting Scholars and Researchers
- Postdoctoral Fellows (PDs)
- Research Assistants (RAs)
- Graduate students in doctoral degree who have a research plan for a doctoral dissertation with a theme relevant to the fields of Digital Humanities
- Research Assistants (Researcher)
- Ritsumeikan Research Collaborators (Faculty,Graduate Students,etc.)
October 17, 2011
Exhibition: "Recording and passing on modernity: Organization and utilization of yuzen designs in the collection of the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University"
As a planned exhibition of the Art Research Center for the academic year 2011, we will be holding an exhibition titled “Recording and passing on modernity: Organization and utilization of yuzen designs in the collection of the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University”. This exhibition will showcase mainly materials kept at the Art Research Center and it is planned by the Kidachi Team of the Kyoto Culture Research Group of this Center.
[Outline]
Art Research Center Exhibition
“Recording and passing on modernity: Organization and utilization of yuzen designs in the collection of the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University”
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■Time and date: 9：30 to 17：00, Monday, October 17, 2011 to Friday, October 28, 2011 Admission is free *closed on weekends
■Place: 1F, Exhibition Room, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (Kinugasa campus)
■Sponsored by: MEXT Global COE Program “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures” (Ritsumeikan University), Art Research Center (Ritsumeikan University)
■Cosponsored by: Kibi International University Graduate School of Conservation and Restoration Studies for Cultural Properties, Ritsumeikan University Faculty of Letters Kyoto Studies Program C seminar
■Planned by: Kidachi Team of the Kyoto Culture Research Group
Person in charge: Masako Yamamoto (PD of this Center)
■Co-planned by: Eiji Suzuki (professor at Kibi International University Graduate School of Conservation and Restoration Studies for Cultural Properties), Hiroe Hojioka (Atelier Suzuki)
September 29, 2011
Additional recruitment of the 2011 International Training Program (ITP) for Young Researchers (Application deadline: 17:00, September 9, 2011)
We are now inviting additional applications for the 2011 International Training Program (ITP) for Young Researchers, a program whose purpose is to send young researchers overseas.
The Ritsumeikan University provides the Global On-Site Training Program for Young Researchers on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Art Work that is based on the International Training Program (ITP) for Young Researchers selected by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. This program offers the university’s PhD students, Postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, researchers and so forth an opportunity to stay at partner organizations overseas and conduct research on topics related to the Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage and the Art Research Center for a fixed period (over 2 months and under 1 year).
September 22, 2011
We are inviting papers for the 12th issue of Art Research Journal
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The Art Research Center at Ritusmeikan University plans to publish its 12th issue of the Art Research Journal at the end of February 2012. As an academic journal specializing in art culture, the journal aims at publishing the results of various research projects at the Art Research Center and receives many papers every year.
Since its establishment in 1998, the Art Research Center has been provided several governmental grants as a research center excelling in culture, art and informatics, and currently selected as a center of the Global COE program, continuously making efforts to further its research work. In addition, the center is also highly regarded as a forefront center in digital archives of art culture.
We look forward to seeing many papers on research results that meet the research content mentioned above.
September 16, 2011
We are pleased to announce the recruitment of Research Assistants (RA Type-II) for Academic Year 2011. (Application Deadline: On September 16, 2011)
Please refer to the guidelines below for more detail information.
more>>September 9, 2011
Invitation for proposals for the Developing Research Assistance Program for 2011
The Art Research Center (ARC) of Ritsumeikan University was established to conduct research and analyses on tangible and intangible cultural creations centering on art, performing arts, technologies, and technical and artistic techniques, while using digital technology to record, organize, preserve and transmit the data, in order to the cultures of man can be passed on to future generations.
Based on the comprehensive research strength in humanities, social sciences and informatics accumulated thus far, we are pursuing to further and heighten this strength through furthering our research activities and developing new projects. To achieve this, we are inviting proposals for research projects for the developing research assistance program.
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