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In commemoration of the 155th anniversary of the founding of Ritsumeikan and the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Academy, we are pleased to announce the upcoming symposium 'Visualizing Art and Technology through Future Research Design: A Transdisciplinary Challenge in Digital Public Humanities,' organized by the Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy (RARA) and co-organized by the Art Research Center (ARC). The event will be held on Saturday, July 12, 2025.

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace--particularly with significant advances in generative AI and XR (extended reality technologies that blend the physical and digital worlds)--fundamental questions have reemerged: What does it mean to be human? Where does creativity originate? As technology grows more sophisticated, there is a renewed appreciation for the embodied experiences and values of art and design, leading to new forms of cross-disciplinary collaborations on a global scale.

The Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy (RARA) is dedicated to fostering "nodes" of connection that bridge the sciences, humanities, and the arts--generating new knowledge through interdisciplinary dialogue inside and outside the university.

In order to share and deepen knowledge, this symposium is held to explore how art and technology can visualize and expand human wisdom, experiences, places, and the very process of research itself.

Featured speakers include Prof. Ryo Akama (College of Letters), Director of the Art Research Center (ARC); ARC-affiliated faculty members Prof. Takanobu Nishiura and Prof. Satoshi Tanaka (College of Information Science and Engineering); and Dr. Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Visiting Senior Researcher at the ARC.

We warmly invite you to join us for this interdisciplinary discussion.

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025, 13:00-17:40 (doors open at 12:30)

Venue: Learning Infinity Hall, 2F, Building H, Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC), Ritsumeikan University + Online Livestream

Capacity: 200 on-site participants / 500 online participants

Details & Registration (free) → https://rararits250712.peatix.com (in Japanese)

This event will be held in Japanese.

Co-organizers: Art Research Center (ARC); Asia-Japan Research Institute; Committee for Establishment of the College of Art and Design, Ritsumeikan University

The 151st International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday,July 2, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Makoto GOTO 　　Associate Professor of National Museum of Japanese History

※This seminar is a Japanese presentation,

Topic: Towards New Developments in Digital Humanities

Participation: free of charge

Zoom webinar 　https://ritsumei-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/92428160002

Live streaming on YouTube　 https://www.youtube.com/@studioarc504

 The seminar has been changed to a seminar open to all.

Please invite anyone who is interested.

An open research forum will be held.

For more information:  絵入狂言本公開研究会企画.pdf  (Japanese note)

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 14:00 JST
Venue:
    Art Research Center Multipurpose Room
    Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus (56-1 Toji-in Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto) 

Title: "Revival of Research on Eiri Kyogen-bon and Genroku Kabuki"

Planning: Study Group for Eiri Kyogen-bon (Illustrated Kyogen Books)
Organized by: International Joint Research Center Project (intramural type)
　Construction of a Global Driving Space for Japanese Cultural Resource Data
Cooperation: Art Research Center (ARC)

Inquiries:
Phone: +81-75-466-3411 (Main number)
9:30-17:00 (JST) ※Except for weekends, national holidays, etc.

Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
56-1 Toji-in Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577 JAPAN

The 150th International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday,June 18, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Dr. Chelsea FOXWELL (Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, University of Chicago)

※This seminar is a Japanese presentation.

Topic: "The Type of Research that a Digital Book Database Makes Possible:Concerning the Overlap Between Edo-Period Painting Manuals and Natural History Books"

Date: Wednesday, June 18 , 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 JST

Participation: free of charge

Zoom webinar 　https://ritsumei-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/92428160002

Live streaming on YouTube　 https://www.youtube.com/@studioarc504

The seminar has been changed to a seminar open to all.

Please invite anyone who is interested.

The 149th International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday,June 11, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Osamu YOSHIDA (President, Tsukiji Sugoroku Museum)

Topic: 'Playing the Sugoroku of the Forest of Knowledge: Fun, Database, and History'

Date: Wednesday, June 11 , 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 JST

Participation: free of charge

Zoom webinar 　https://ritsumei-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/92428160002

Live streaming on YouTube　 https://www.youtube.com/@studioarc504

 The seminar has been changed to a seminar open to all.

Please invite anyone who is interested.

https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/kinugasaartfes/

The 148th International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday, May 28, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Koichi HOSOI (ZEN University Professor, Department of Social Informatics, and Senior Research Fellow, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University)
                 Yuji MIYATA  (ZEN University Lecturer, History of Content Industry Archives Research Center, and Visiting Researcher, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University)

Topic: 'Archiving the History of the Content Industry: Initiatives and Challenges of ZEN University'

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 JST

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

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

The 147th International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday, May 21, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Dr. Charlotte Horlyck (Reader in the History of Korean Art, and Head of Department, School of Arts, SOAS University of London )

※This seminar is a English presentation.

Topic: Mining the Archive for Collecting Histories of Korean Art

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 JST

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

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

The 146th International ARC Seminar will be held as a webinar on Wednesday, April 23, from 18:30 JST.

The program is as follows:

Speakers: Dr. Hiroyuki YAMAUCHI (Associate Research Professor, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University)

Topic: 'The Plan and Trial Investigations for the ARC "Research Metaverse": Based on Applications for Geography Education Studies'

Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 JST

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

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

The 14th Forum for Knowledge, Arts, and Culture in Digital Humanities will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2025.

We are now accepting →registrations to join the event as a participant. This event also serves as a conference for young researchers of the ARC-iJAC.

About the Forum for Knowledge, Arts, and Culture in Digital Humanities

 Along with the rapid development of the digital and information environment in recent years, we are seeing more and more cross-disciplinary research in academic fields with an awareness of "information" and "digital". This trend is gaining momentum in higher education and research activities as well, and educational programs and course activities related to this trend are being enhanced.

　The need for opportunities for academic exchange among undergraduate and graduate students and young researchers studying in such programs under new research themes in line with the times is ever increasing.

　For this reason, the Forum for Knowledge, Arts, and Culture in Digital Humanities was established in 2011 as a place for presentation and exchange, with a focus on graduate students and young researchers interested in information and knowledge research in arts, culture, and other related fields, and 13 research meetings have been held to date.

　This meeting is positioned as a place where participants can mutually discover new research themes and methods through human exchange in different fields, and we also welcome exploratory and adventurous presentations that are slightly different from conventional conference presentations.

■ Date: March 22 (Sat), 2025, from 12:30 noon JST

■ Hybrid format
Venue: Future Plaza Conferece Room, Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus
(https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/futureplaza/conferencehall/)

Online via ZOOM.

■ Program & presentation abstracts: Please click →here (in Japanese).

■ Register as a participant: Please register via →Google Forms. (Deadline: Wednesday, March 19, 2025)

※ There is no participation fee.

※A get-together is planned to be held after the research presentations (face-to-face only). We would like to make it a place for exchange beyond the boundaries of universities and research fields, so please feel free to join us. The venue, participation fee, etc. will be announced shortly.

Organizer: The Forum for Knowledge, Arts, and Culture in Digital Humanities

Facilitators: Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan University), Mamiko Sakata (Doshisha University), Naoki Takubo (Kindai University), Takehiko Murakawa (Wakayama University), Ryosuke Yamanishi (Kansai University)

Co-organizers: The Kansai Division of the Art Documentation Society and the Kansai Division of the Japan Society of Information and Knowledge

In cooperation with: International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University.

Inquiries: kacimeeting+2025■gmail.com (please change "■" to "@")

■ Related links:

→Japan Art Documentation Society