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December 18, 2010
International Symposium "Digital Iconography: Image Databases and the Study of Edo Print Culture"
140th Anniversary of the Ritsumeikan Academy, and 110th Anniversary of Ritsumeikan University
International Symposium
Digital Iconography: Image Databases and the Study of Edo Print Culture
「デジタル・イコノグラフィー イメージデータベースと江戸出版文化研究」
Sponsored by: MEXT Global COE Program “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures,” Ritsumeikan University
Organized by: John Carpenter Lab., Japanese Culture Research Group
Date: Workshop on December 17 and Symposium on 18, 2010
Place: Multipurpose Room, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
For more details, please refer to the following.
December 10, 2010
We are pleased to announce the recruitment of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Year 2011. (Application Deadline: On December 10, 2010)
Please refer to the guidelines below for more detail information.
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December 10, 2010
We are pleased to announce the recruitment of Research Assistants (RA Type-II, RA Type-III) for Academic Year 2011. (Application Deadline: On December 10, 2010)
Please refer to the guidelines below for more detail information.
more>>December 10, 2010
GLOBAL COE PROGRAM ENTRANCE EXAMINATION (Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures) April 2011 Admission
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Application Period:
December 10th (Friday), 2010 - January 7th (Friday), 2011
* Application must be sent by mail, with a postmark no later than January 7th (Friday), 2011.
* Note that Ritsumeikan University will be shut down for a winter break between December 26, 2010 and January 5, 2011, and we cannot answer your questions by e-mail, phone, or personal visits to the campus.
Screening Methods:
<1st stage screening: screening of application materials>
All applicants have to submit:
1. All required documents (see below), and
2. A thesis (Master’s thesis or a thesis equivalent will be appropriate).
<2nd stage screening: interview>
Date of Interview:
February 8th (Tuesday), 2011
Place for Interviews:
Kinugasa Campus of Ritsumeikan University
* We will issue exam admission slips to the applicants who passed the 1st stage screening, which tell an exact place where the interviews take place.
* Applicants living overseas may have an interview through the Internet. If that is the case, please contact us at: g-coe@st.ritsumei.ac.jp.
Notification of Results:
February 25th (Friday), 2011
Mailing Address for Application:
Office of Graduate Studies, Ritsumeikan University
56-1 Tojiin Kitamachi Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577, Japan
E-Mail: g-coe@st.ritsumei.ac.jp
Phone: +81-75-465-8195 (direct line)
Application Guidelines and Forms:
Please download the application guidelines and forms from the following website.
http://www.ritsumei.jp/gr/jdh_exam_april.html
October 12, 2010
International Symposium Utsushi: The Art of Copying
We are pleased to announce that the Center will sponsor the International Symposium Utsushi: The Art of Copying with other organizations. The Symposium will be held at Korean Auditorium & Art Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, where three members of our Center will present their papers.
International Symposium Utsushi: The Art of Copying
■ Date: October 12 (Tuesday), 2010
■ Place: Korean Auditorium & Art Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa
For more details, please refer to Utsushi: The Art of Copying.
October 1, 2010
The Center Research Members in the second half FY2010
- Project Members(affiliated to Ritsumeikan University, otherwise mentioned)
- Special Adviser
- 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, Research Assistant)
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September 18, 2010
"International Exchange: Trading Material Culture, Receiving and Transforming Images" will be held at SOAS
This international workshop is sponsored by the JSPS International Training Program (ITP), Global On-site Training Program for Young Researchers on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Artworks.
In co-operation with the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto; Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London; and Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Date and Time: Saturday 18 September 2010 from 1 pm to 6 pm
Place: Brunei Gallery B104, SOAS, University of London
Please refer to the poster for more details.
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September 14, 2010
"Shunga in its Social and Cultural Context" will be Held at SOAS.
This workshop is part of the three-year Research Project begun in May 2009 on Shunga Japanese Erotic Art, supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, run jointly by SOAS, the British Museum, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto and Ritsumeikan University.
Date: 13 September 2010 Time: 9:30 AM
Finishes: 14 September 2010 Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG08
Cf.: http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event59713.html#Introduction
July 10, 2010
Dr. Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn received the 2010 Bursary Award in Digital Humanities 2010.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, a postdoctoral fellow of the Center, on her 2010 Bursary Award in Digital Humanities 2010. These awards are to encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities and to involve new participants in the application of information technology in humanities research. She presented a paper "Visualization and Analysis of Visiting Styles in 3D Virtual Museums" at the Digital Humanities 2010, an international conference held in King’s College London on July 7-10.
Awarding scene: Dr. Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn is in red shirt.
July 7, 2010
Digital Humanities 2010
Nine members of our Center will present their research at the forthcoming Digital Humanities 2010, which will be held at King's College London, UK. This conference is one of the biggest and most prestigious ones for digital humanities in Europe and North America.
【Date】 July 7-10, 2010
【Place】 King's College London, UK
【Hosted by】 The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO)
DH2010 HP ≫ http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/
The nine presenters are as follows:
Akama, Ryo
The Origins and Current State of Digitization of Humanities in Japan
Batjargal, Biligsaikhan
An Approach to Ancient-to-modern and Cross-script Information Access for Traditional Mongolian Historical Collections
Inaba, Mitsuyuki
An Open Source Toolkit for Flexible Browsing of Historical Maps on the Web
A Platform for Cultural Information Visualization Using Schematic Expressions of Cube
Ohno, Shin
An Open Source Toolkit for Flexible Browsing of Historical Maps on the Web
Okamoto, Takaaki
Text-Image linking of Japanese historical documents: Sharing and exchanging data by using text-embedded image file
Saito, Shinya
A Platform for Cultural Information Visualization Using Schematic Expressions of Cube
Seiya, Tsuruta
Generation of Emotional Dance Motion for Virtual Dance Collaboration System
Sookhanaphibarn, Kingkarn
Visualization and Analysis of Visiting Styles in 3D Virtual Museums
Toledo, Alejandro
Contexts, Narratives, and Interactive Visual Analysis of Names in the Japanese Hyohanki Diary

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