[tlug] Fwd: SYMPOSIUM> Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies, UTokyo 11/16-17

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

I know that the below will be of only tangential interest to most 
TLUGers, but I pass it along in case you might be hanging around in 
Bunkyo-ku next weekend with nothing to do...

Chuck

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: SYMPOSIUM> Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role 
of Buddhist Studies, UTokyo 11/16-17 (Muller)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:04:56 +0900
From: Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>


From: Charles Muller
Subject: International Symposium: Humanities Studies in the Digital Age
and the Role of Buddhist Studies (国際シンポジウムデジタル時代の人文学と
仏教学の役割について)


Fukutake Hall, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies,
University of Tokyo
東京大学大学院 情報学環 福武ホール

Nov. 16 (Sat) - 17 (Sun) 2013

(Hosted by the Project “Constructing a Research Knowledge Base for
Indology and Buddhology in the International Alliance,” Grant-in-Aid (A)
Project Supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science;
Co-hosted by the Center for Evolving Humanities, Graduate School of
Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo)

[16th (Sat) Nov.]
Opening Remarks (Prof. M. Shimoda)    09:15-09:30

Session 1 “Digital Humanities as New Methodology for Buddhist Studies”
(Chair: Prof. A. C. Muller)

9:30-10:00  “The Present and Future of the CBETA Project”(Prof. A. Tu
and Prof. J. Hun, Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association, Taiwan)

10:00-10:30  “SAT as a Leading Model for Humanities Researches inthe
Digital Humanities Environments” (Mr. K. Nagasaki, International
Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)

10:45-11:15  “New Project of Compiling Pali Canonical Texts” (Prof. G.
Somaratne,  Dhammachai Institute, Thailand)

11:15-11:45  “Gandharan Manuscript Project and the Digital Archive” (Dr.
S. Baums, University of Munich, Germany)

Session 2 “Reconsidering Methodologies of Traditional Buddhist Studies
in the Environments of Digital Media” (Chair: Prof. M. Shimoda)

13:00-13:30  “Some Remarks from the Methodology of Tibetan Buddhist
Materials” (Prof. I. Miyazaki, Kyoto University, Japan)

13:30-14:00  “Several Issues in the Methodology of Japanese Buddhist
Studies” (Prof. K. Minowa, University of Tokyo, Japan)

14:00-14:30  “Dealing with Sanskrit Materials of Buddhist Studiesin
Digital Environments” (Dr. T. Tomabechi, International Institute for
Digital Humanities, Japan)

Session 3 “Constructing Buddhist Knowledge Bases” (Chair:Dr. T. Tomabechi)

14:50-15:10  “A View of the New Horizon of the Humanities from the
Project of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism” (Prof. A. C. Muller,
University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:10-15:40  “The Buddhist Canons Research Database" (Dr. P. Hackett,
Columbia University, USA)

15:40-16:10  “Constructing a Database for Ancient Japanese Buddhist
Manuscripts” (Prof. Hayashidera, Hokkaido University) Discussion for the
First Day (Chair: Prof. M. Ono) 16:30-18:00

[17th (Sun) Nov.]

Session 4-1 “Humanities Studies in the Digital Age” (Chair: Prof. M. Miyake)

10:00-10:30  “The Current Situation and Role of TEI P5 as an XML
Standard for the Corpus of Historical Japanese” (Dr A. Kawase andDr A.
Ogiso, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan)

10:30-11:00  “Encoding Japanese Historical Texts using TEI”(Prof. T.
Yamada, University of Tokyo, Japan)

11:00-11:30 “Opening a New Perspective of Text Analysis in the Digital
Humanities” (Prof. T. Tabata, Osaka University, Japan) Demonstration

13:00-13:30 Session 4-2 “Humanities Studies in the Digital Age” (Chair:
A. C. Muller)

13:30-14:00  “The Significance of Establishing and Evaluation System for
the Development of Digital Humanities” (Dr. K. Takahashi, University of
Tokyo)

14:00-14:30  “SMART-GS: A System for Working with Historical
Manuscripts” (Y. Hashimoto, Prof. S. Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan)

14:30-15:00  “Digital Humanities as Methodological Commons”(Prof. H.
Short, Kings College London/ Western Sydney University, UK) Special
Lecture (Chair: Prof. M. Shimoda)

15:10-15:50  Prof. Funayama, Kyoto University, “Several Methodological
Issues in Chinese Buddhist Studies” General Discussion (Chair: Prof. M.
Ono and Dr. T. Tomabechi)

16:10-17:00  (Discussion)
17:10-18:00  (Discussion)

The symposium poster has a bit more information, including a map:

http://www.acmuller.net/SATsymposium.pdf

Regards,

Chuck


---------------------------
A. Charles Muller

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
Faculty of Letters
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku
Tokyo 113-8654, Japan

Office Phone: 03-5841-3735

Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought
http://www.acmuller.net

Twitter: @H_Buddhism

**********************************************************************

H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network)

Web Site: http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism
Posting Guidelines: http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html
Account Handling: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-buddhism
Bibliography Project:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project/items
H-Net Job Guide: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/home.php
Twitter: @H_Buddhism

--