Tuesday 31 May 2011, 10:00 - 11:00am at the Forum, Norwich

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A one-day workshop in Norwich Organised by the Centre for Japanese Studies and the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, in conjunction with the Norwich Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) and the Virtual Kyoto Project, Ritsumeikan University.

Following presentations at the Forum, including a live-link to Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, there will be a specialist workshop at the School of Environmental Sciences, UEA.

This workshop will bring together researchers on two projects that have developed in parallel to each other, Virtual Kyoto and Virtual Norwich. The workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for each project to be introduced, followed by discussion of potential cooperation and collaboration in the future. The workshop participants include computer scientists involved in modelling ancient and modern urban environments, cultural heritage specialists, urban historians, geographers, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians. The workshop will also involve discussion of the Norwich bid to host the Congress of the League of Historic Cities in 2013.

The workshop also represents the launch of the academic programme of the new Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. All welcome. Space for the specialist workshop at UEA is limited: please contact Simon Kaner s.kaner@uea.ac.uk if you would like to attend. There is plenty of space at the Forum: please email s.kaner@uea.ac.uk or phone the Sainsbury Institute to book your space: 01603 624349.