Keynote Speakers

Andrea Nanetti, Nanyang Technological University




Title: Information Visualisation and Visual Knowledge Aggregation as Interdisciplinary Skills. From Da Vinci to Digital Literacy


Dr. Andrea Nanetti received his university education in Medieval and Renaissance studies between 1986 and 2000 in Italy (University of Bologna), France (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris 10 Nanterre), Germany (University of Cologne), Greece (National Hellenic Research Foundation), and USA (Brown University), where he has been instructed by world’s leading professors to work on research questions and solutions through the cross-fertilization of different methodologies (historical, philological, diplomatic, aesthetic, anthropological, and computational). He pioneered digital humanities projects for archival documents (1997-1999 State Archive in Venice and 2005-2010 State Archive in Ravenna), chronicles (2002-2004 Virtual Library of Venetian Chronicles), historical maps (2000, Imola from Leonardo da Vinci to today), and pre-modern historical primary sources (2007-today, cloud platform for Afro-Eurasia).

I-chun Fan, Academia Sinica




Title: Spatial Information and Digital Humanities- Why and How Constructing A Spatio-temporal Platform and Its’ Applications


Prof. I-chun Fan is a Research Fellow of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. He is also the Executive Officer of the Center for Geographic Information System, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica. He is an expert in the socio-economic history of Ming Qing dynasty. His research covers topics such as the domestic trades, trade routes, the development of Jiangnan towns, the Chinese customs system after the five-port opening, and the Sino-foreign and domestic trades through customs during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After graduating from Stanford University in the late 1980s, he was the first in Taiwan to apply geographical information systems to the research of humanities and social sciences. He was also the founder of Center for Geographic Information System, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica. Throughout his career, he has been devoted to the development and promotion of the technologies used in geographic information systems, as well as the collection and digitization of various spatial information, such as maps and remote sensing images. He also cooperates with experts in various fields, including humanities, social sciences, information engineering, and surveying, to study the interdisciplinary spatial information science, aiming to develop a new discipline of spatial humanities.