Kolloquien

2025: The future of the humanities in the age of Artificial Intelligence

18th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium



Hosted by
: Stuttgart University, Seijō University, JSPS Bonn Office
Date: March 17-18, 2025
Venue: High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

PROGRAM (260 KB)

March 16th

19:00 Networking meeting / get together among PIs

March 17th

09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome and opening remarks

  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Brem (Vice Rector for Science Transfer and International Affairs, University of Stuttgart)
  • Mr. Ken-ichi Bessho (Consul General of Japan in Munich)
  • Prof. Dr. Kyoji Kawasaki (Vice-President, Seijo University)

Session I (Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Resch)
10:30 A Digital View of the World
Prof. Dr. Michael Resch (University of Stuttgart)
  Toward an Epistemological Reconstruction of the Humanities
Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Sakamoto (Shinshu University)
12:10 Lunch break

Session II (Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Resch)
13:30 Hermeneutics and AI – Versailles-Project
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Dickhaut (University of Stuttgart)
  Questions of Authorship in the Age of AI Literature
Prof. Dr. Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo)
15:10 Coffee break & Group photo

Session III (Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Resch)
15:30 From Model to Pragmatic Opacity
Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaminski (TU Darmstadt)
  What is intelligence? artificial/human/divine
Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi (University of Tokyo)
16:00 The We in Democratic Experimentalism
Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Voß (Sociology, RWTH Aachen)
17:10 Introduction of JSPS Intrernational Programs
Mr. Jun Yano (JSPS Bonn Office)
17:25 Closing remarks day 1
19:00 Networking Dinner

March 18th

Session IV (Chair: Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi & Prof. Dr. Kiyoko Myojo)
09:30 DLA – »Deutsches Literaturarchiv« or »Digital Literature Archive«?
Prof. Dr. Heinz Werner Kramski (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach)
  World Literature Web, Schiller as an Animal, Culture as a Dragon: Some Thoughts on the Application of AI to Comparative Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Yuji Nawata (Chuo University)
11:10 Coffee break

Session V (Chair: Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi & Prof. Dr. Kiyoko Myojo)
11:20 Kafka’s Communities – Real and Virtual
Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)
  The role of chronology in understanding Kafka’s writing process: The case of Kafka’s ‚The Castle‚ and ‚The First Sorrow‘
Prof. Dr. Kiyoko Myojo (Seijo University / University of Oxford) & Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Sakamoto (Shinshu University)
13:00 Closing remarks
Prof. Dr. Masahiko Hayashi (JSPS Bonn Office)
13:05 Lunch break
13:35 Visit of HLRS Supercomputer and Visualization
15:30 Workshop on Classical Materials
19:00 Networking Banquet

March 19th

11:00 Workshop on Media Technology