And now, under the banner of “Inter Humanities” cooperation, we have decided to hold an international conference, inviting three researchers active in Digital Humanities from Kyoto University, and seven researchers and practitioners of Digital Humanities from Europe and the United States. The three areas to be discussed are digital corpora, character encoding, and digital archives. The cultures to be covered are wide-ranging, including the Chinese character cultural sphere, Western antiquity, ancient Egypt, and ancient Maya. In consideration of the time zone difference of the participants, the conference will be divided into four 2-3 hour sessions instead of the usual two consecutive days, with Session 1-a to be held on October 2, Sessions 2 and 3 on October 16, and Session 1-b on October 23. Sessions 1-a and 1-b are on the same topic. Each research presentation will last 40 minutes but will be followed by 20 minutes of ample time for questions. We look forward to seeing you there if you are interested in digital humanities and DH.

October 2　(Sat.) 9:50-12:30 JST

Session 1-a  “Digital Corpus and Syntactic Annotation through Universal Dependencies:
UD Treebanks for Coptic, Classical Chinese, Old Japanese, and Ainu

• 9:50-10:00: Opening remarks by Chigusa Kita and So Miyagawa

• 10:00-11:00: “UD Treebanking for Coptic DH: Low Resource NLP Technologies for NER, Lexicography and Linked Open Data” by Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University),

• 11:00-12:00: “UD for lzh (Classical Chinese) ojp (Old Japanese) and ain (Ainu)” by Koichi Yasuoka (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)

• 12:00-12:30: Further discussions

October 16  (Sat.) 15:50-22:00 JST

Session 2  Character Encoding of Complex Scripts: Chinese, Mayan, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

• 15:50-16:00: Opening remarks by Chigusa Kita and So Miyagawa

• 16:00-17:00: “Machine-readable description of Chinese Characters” by Tomohiko Morioka (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
• 17:00-18:00: “The Encoding of Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing” by Carlos Pallán Gayol (University of Bonn)
• 18:00-19:00: “Unicode Control Characters for Ancient Egyptian” by Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St. Andrews)

Session 3  Digital Archiving and  Curations: Kyoto, Leipzig, London, and Stellenbosch

• 19:00-20:00: “The Development, Collaborations, and Evaluation of the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive” by Chifumi Nishioka (Kyoto University Library)
• 20:00-21:00 “Current Trends in Digital Editions and Curatorial Practice: Examples from Leipzig, London and Stellenbosch” by Franziska Naether (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities Leipzig)
• 21:00-21:30: Further discussions

October 23 (Sat.) 16:50-20:00 JST

Session 1-b  Digital Corpus and Syntactic Annotation through Universal Dependencies:
Vedic Corpus, Language Comparison through UD, Potential and Limitations of UD

• 15:50-16:00: Opening remarks by Chigusa Kita and So Miyagawa
• 16:00-17:00:  “Universal Dependencies: Comparing Languages in Space and Time”
  by Daniel Zeman (Charles University Prague)
• 17:00-18:00: “Historical Background of the Formation of the Veda in Ancient India, as Deciphered from the Visualization of the Influence Relations among the Vedic Texts”
  by Kyoko Amano (Kyoto University, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research)
• 18:00-19:00: “UD: Potential and Limitations” by Giuseppe Celano (Leipzig University)
• 19:00-19:30  Discussion and concluding remarks

• Venue:: Held online via Zoom
• Free of charge, advance reservation required
• People who belong to other universities than Kyoto University are also welcome to attend.
• There is no obligation to attend all three sessions. There is no obligation to attend all three sessions. You can enter and leave the room at any time.
• All lectures will be given in English.
• Each session will consist of a 40-minute lecture and a 20-minute Q&A session.
• If you would like to participate in the conference, please complete the registration form on the conference website from the button of  “Register now!” or the page of registration. The conference website is here: https://www.kyoto-u-digitization.org/.

Host: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage and Inter Humanities (CESCHI), the Innovative Hub of Inter Humanities

We are pleased to announce a five-day workshop entitled “Kyoto University Digitization Hub of the Humanities, Social and Cognitive Sciences (KUDH) Basics”, which aims to enable first-time students to practice using digital tools. “The workshop will be held over five days. In this workshop, four lecturers will talk about how to use LaTeX to create, typeset, and edit complex papers and journals easily and beautifully. There will also be a follow-up session to answer questions from each participant. We look forward to your active participation.

Schedule：

Session 1: August 22, 14:00 – 16:00

How to use CloudLaTeX

Lecturer: Acaric

Session 2: August 23, 14:00-16:00

LaTeX Basics

Lecturer: Kanji Kato (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Session 3: August 24, 14:00 – 16:00

LaTeX Advanced

Lecturer: Kanji Kato (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Session 4: August 25, 14:00 – 16:00

Creating Templates for Journal Articles

Lecturer: Makoto Ohura (Kyoto University)

Session 5: August 26, 14:00-16:00

Follow-up Tutorial

Lecturer: So Miyagawa (Kyoto University)

August 23, 14:00-16:00

Held online using Zoom.

• All lectures will be given in Japanese.
• All lectures will be given in Japanese, but the 5th lecture will be available for questions in Japanese, English and German.
• Each lecture will consist of 90 minutes of lecture and 30 minutes of Q&A.
• You don’t have to participate in all 5 lectures.
• You can participate in this workshop regardless of your institution.
• If you would like to participate, please contact ku-hub[at]ceschi.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp. (Please replace [at] with @.)
• All lectures will be recorded for online distribution at a later date.

Organizer: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage and Inter Humanities

2023 Edition

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Pamphlet of CESCHI

DIRECTOR YOSHII, Hideo (Professor, Korean Archaeology)

●Research Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage

DIRECTOR YOSHIKAWA,Shinji (Professor, History of ancient Japan)

■Section of Comparative Studies of Cultural Heritage
YOSHII,Hideo (Professor, Korean Archaeology)
NEDACHI, Kensuke (Professor, History of Japanese Art(Buddhist sculpture))
CHIBA,Yutaka (Associate Professor, Japanese Archaeology)
SHIMOGAKI, Hitoshi (Associate Professor, Japanese Archaeology)
ITO, Atsushi (Assistant Professor, Japanese Archaeology)
TOMII, Makoto (Assistant Professor, Prehistory, Archaeology)

■Section of Archaeological Heritage Management for KU
YOSHIKAWA,Shinji (Professor, History of ancient Japan)
CHIBA,Yutaka (Associate Professor, Japanese Archaeology)
ITO, Atsushi (Assistant Professor, Japanese Archaeology)
TOMII, Makoto (Assistant Professor, Prehistory, Archaeology)
SASAKAWA, Naoki (Assistant Professor, History of ancient Japan)
NAIKI, Satoshi (Assistant Professor, Archaeology in Gandhara)

■Section of Inner Asian Studies
ITANI,Kozo (Professor, Medieval West Asian history)
YOSHIMOTO,Michimasa (Professor, History of ancient China, History of Northeast Asia)
ISOGAI,Kenichi (Professor, History of Central Asia)
YOSHIDA,Yutaka (Professor, Historical Linguistics, Middle Iranian)
NAIKI, Satoshi (Assistant Professor, Archaeology in Gandhara)

■Section of Eurasian Religious Heritage Studies
UEJIMA,Susumu (Professor, History of medieval Japan)
YOKOCHI, Yuko (Professor, Sanskrit Literature; History of Hinduism(especially Hindu mythology))
MIYAZAKI,Izumi (Professor, Late Indian Buddhism and its dissemination to Tibet)
ASHINA, Sadamichi (Professor, Modern Christian thougt and philosophy of religion)
SASAKAWA, Naoki (Assistant Professor, History of ancient Japan)

・The Innovative Hub of Inter Humanities

MATSUDA, Motoji (Professor, Rural/Urban sociology; African area studies; Social anthropology)
SUGIMOTO, Yoshihiko (Professor, Modern cultural studies)
KITA, Chigusa (Professor, Modern Cultural History of Technology)
KUMANO, Takafumi(Assistant Professor, Geography)

The CESCHI came into being in April 2019, as the result of merger between the Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies (Haneda Memorial Hall), which had played a pivotal role in Inner Asian studies since 1966, and the Center for Cultural Heritage Studies, which had conducted many archaeological activities within the KU campus for more than 40 years. Along with taking over the responsibilities of the previous two organization, this brand-new center takes up the mission of integration of humanities with the aim of systematically distributing the knowledge not only accumulated in all departments in the Graduate School of Letters but also resulting from the integration. This organization consists of two bodies; the Research Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage and the Innovative Hub of Inter-humanities.

Research Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage

This body, expanding the activities of the former two centres, has four sections for the purpose of developing comprehensive researches concerning management of Japanese and overseas cultural heritage.
more information is here.

　　■Section of Comparative Studies of Cultural Heritage
This section pursues various subjects relating to Japanese and overseas cultural heritage by seeing through the perspective of, and following the methodology of, comparative history, and promotes domestic and international activities on management of cultural heritage.

　　■Section of Archaeological Heritage Management for KU
This section carries on archaeological researches within our campus of Kyoto University, assesses the value of their results as KU’s unique cultural heritage, and seeks to widely apply and diffuse them both for the public and academia.
　　more information is here.　

　　■Section of Inner Asian Studies
This section develops Inner Asian studies based on both knowledge and resources of various kinds accumulated by the former Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies, and makes those research results public through lectures and seminars.
more information is here.

　■Section of Eurasian Religious Heritage Studies
This section advances comparative studies of religion of various kinds in Eurasia by using the methodology of religious heritage studies which treats religion as tangible and intangible cultural heritage
more information is here.

The Innovative Hub of Inter Humanities

This body aims at creating a new type of knowledge into which the whole knowledge not only accumulated in every department of Graduate School of Letters but also newly acquired by the other above-mentioned body is all interwoven, and disseminates the knowledge built up in each discipline of humanities, securing the closest coordination with other organizations both within and without KU.

CENTER FOR STUDIES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INTER HUMANITIES(CESCHI)
Section of Eurasian Religious Heritage Studies

This section advances comparative studies of religion of various kinds in Eurasia by using the methodology of religious heritage studies which treats religion as tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

STAFF
(Professor) UEJIMA,Susumu History of medieval Japan
(Professor) YOKOCHI, Yuko Sanskrit Literature; History of Hinduism(especially Hindu mythology)
(Professor) MIYAZAKI,Izumi Late Indian Buddhism and its dissemination to Tibet
(Professor) ASHINA, Sadamichi Modern Christian thougt and philosophy of religion
(Assistant Professor) SASAKAWA, Naoki History of ancient Japan

CENTER FOR STUDIES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INTER HUMANITIES(CESCHI)
Section of Comparative Studies of Cultural Heritage

This section pursues various subjects relating to Japanese and overseas cultural heritage by seeing through the perspective of, and following the methodology of, comparative history, and promotes domestic and international activities on management of cultural heritage.

STAFF
(Professor) YOSHII,Hideo Korean Archaeology
(Professor) NEDACHI, Kensuke History of Japanese Art(Buddhist sculpture)
(Associate Professor) CHIBA,Yutaka Japanese Archaeology
(Associate Professor) SHIMOGAKI, Hitoshi Japanese Archaeology
(Assistant Professor) ITO, Atsushi Japanese Archaeology
(Assistant Professor) TOMII, Makoto Prehistory, Archaeology