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.
]]>■Date: | November 19 and 20 (Saturday and Sunday), 2011 |
■Place: | Soshikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto |
■Admission free; no advanced registration necessary | |
■Sponsored/organized by: | |
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Global COE (Center of Excellence) Program “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures,” RitsumeikanUniversity |
Soshikan Hall will open for registration at 9:30. | |||
[Morning] | |||
10:00-10:10 | Opening Speech by Dr. Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Chancellor, Ritsumeikan University | ||
10:10-10:40 | Keynote Speech 1: Dr. Makoto Nagao, Director, National Diet Library "The National Diet Library’s Efforts on Creating a Digital Library" | ||
10:40-11:10 | Invited Speech 1: Dr. Akihiro Kinda, President, National Institutes for the Humanities "NIHU’s Project to Promote Resource Sharing" | ||
11:10-11:20 | Break | ||
11:20-11:50 | Keynote Speech 2: Prof. Simon C Lin, Principle Investigator (PI) of International Collaboration and Promotion of Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Project, TELDAP "From Digital Archives to Digital Humanities" | ||
11:50-12:20 | Special Discussion by Dr. Makoto Nagao, Dr. Akihiro Kinda, Prof. Simon C Lin, and Prof. Kozaburo Hachimura | ||
12:20-14:00 | Lunch | ||
[Afternoon] | |||
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14:00-14:30 | Kyoto Culture Research Group (Prof. Masaaki Kidachi); and Prof. Seishi Namiki, Director, Museum and Archives; and Director, Center for Education and Research of Cultural Heritage, Kyoto Institute of Technology | ||
14:35-15:05 | Prof. Ryo Akama, Japanese Culture Research Group; and Dr. Ellis Tinios, Honorary Lecturer, University of Leeds | ||
15:10-15:40 | Prof. Keiji Yano, Historical GIS Research Group; and Prof. Peter Bol, Director, Center For Geographic Analysis Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University | ||
15:40-15:55 | Break | ||
15:55-16:25 | Prof. Mitsuyuki Inaba, Web Technology Research Group; and Prof. Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta | ||
16:30-17:00 | Prof. Kozaburo Hachimura; Digital Archiving Technology Research Group; and Prof. Hongbin Zha, Center for Information Science, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University | ||
17:00-17:30 | Closing Remarks of the Day by Prof. Kozaburo Hachimura | ||
18:30- | Reception After the completion of the first day’s program, we will have a reception for all the guests and participants of the Symposium. |
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Soshikan Hall will open for registration at 9:00. | |||
[Morning] | |||
9:30-10:30 | Young Researchers’ Presentations in Showcase Style
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10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
10:45-12:00 | Young Researchers’ Presentations in Panel
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12:00-13:30 | Lunch / Poster Presentations and Demos at the ARC | ||
[Afternoon] | |||
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13:30-14:00 | Keynote Speech 3: Mr. Joe Earle, Vice-President, and Director, Japan Society Gallery at Japan Society "Digitization in an Age of Austerity" | ||
14:00-14:20 | Invited Speakers: Dr. Alfred Haft, Project Curator for Japanese Art, British Museum "Advanced Digital Technology at the British Museum" | ||
14:20-14:40 | Invited Speakers: Mr. Koji Tanabe, Director, Kyoto Culture Association "The Development of the Kyoto Digital Archives" | ||
14:40-14:50 | Break | ||
14:50-15:20 | Panel Discussion: by Mr. Earle, Dr. Haft, Mr. Tanabe, Prof. Masaaki Kashimura (Keio University), and Prof. Akama (MC) | ||
15:20-15:40 | Break | ||
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15:40-16:10 | Invited Speakers: Prof. Neil Fraistat, a founder of centerNet; and Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland "Digital Humanities Centers and The New Humanities" | ||
16:10-16:40 | Invited Speakers: Prof. Jieh Hsiang, Chair of centerNet Asia Pacific; and Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, National Taiwan University "Digital Humanities in Asia Pacific – a Progress Report" | ||
16:40-16:50 | Break | ||
16:50-17:20 | Panel Discussion: by Professors Fraistat, Hsiang, Kozaburo Hachimura, and Mitsuyuki Inaba (MC) | ||
17:20-17:30 | Closing Remarks by Prof. Ryo Akama |
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During the time of the symposium, the Center’s young researchers will set booths for poster presentations and demos at the Multipurpose Room, Art Research Center, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University
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Photo by Shinji Kubo | President, National Diet Library. |
Currently the Project Director of International Collaboration Division for the Taiwan eLearning and National Digital Archive Program (TELDAP). Dr. Lin pioneered the Digital Library/Museum Pilot Project in Academia Sinica which later led to the National Digital Archive Program. The “National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan” (NDAP, Taiwan) was first launched in 2002. Over the past few years, the NDAP has generated approximately 322.9 Terabytes of digitized content (with 5.28 millions Items) from 16 thematic groups ranging from Anthropology to Zoology. |
President, National Institutes for the Humanities. 1946年富山県生まれ。京都大学大学院文学研究科博士課程を単位取得退学。京都大学教授、同大学院文学研究科長、同副学長、理事などを経て、2008年より現職。 |
Director, Museum and Archives; Director, Center for Education and Research of Cultural Heritage, Kyoto Institute of Technology. |
Honorary Lecturer, University of Leeds. Dr Ellis Tinios taught East Asian History in the School of History, University of Leeds, for 24 years. In those years, he served as curator for three exhibitions on Japanese art at the Leeds University Gallery. Since taking early retirement in 2002, he has pursued his interest in the illustrated books and prints produced in Japan between 1600 and 1900. His institution links include visiting researcher at the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, and special assistant to the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. He teaches a course of Japanese illustrated books each year at the Freer-Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia. His most recent publication is Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 (British Museum Press, 2010). |
Director, Center for Geographic Analysis Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.。 Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages Civilization, Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. |
Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta Adjunct Member of Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University |
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: | |
1987-1995 | Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Thesis: A Unity of Voices, A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue |
1985-1987 | M.A. (Philosophy), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada |
1977-1982 | B.A. (Philosophy), Haverford College, Haverford, PA, U.S.A. |
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Professor at the Key Lab on Machine Perception (MOE), Peking University. Hongbin Zha received PhD degree in electrical engineering from Kyushu University, Japan, in 1990. After working as a research associate at Kyushu Institute of Technology, he joined Kyushu University in 1991 as an associate professor. He was also a visiting professor in the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, Surrey University, Unite Kingdom, in 1999. Since 2000, he has been a professor at the Key Lab on Machine Perception (MOE), Peking University, China. |
Vice-President, and Director, Japan Society Gallery at Japan Society. has worked for more than 30 years in the field of Asian and Japanese arts and cultures. He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he majored in Chinese language and literature. In 1974 he joined the newly-formed Far Eastern Department of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and began to specialize in Japanese art, creating exhibitions on contemporary lacquer, ceramics and design as well as serving as consultant to the Royal Academy’s groundbreaking Great Japan Exhibition (1981-82). |
Alfred Haft is Project Curator in the Japanese Section of the British Museum, and Research Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Cultures. |