NEH Grant Programs
“Using New Technologies
to Explore Cultural Heritage”
A conference sponsored jointly by
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR) of Italy
Friday, October 5, 2007
Old Post Office Building, Room M-09 Washington, D.C.

Opening Remarks
Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Roberto de Mattei, Member of the Board of Directors, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Session I: Museums and Audiences
Andrew Ackerman, Executive Director, Children's Museum of Manhattan
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Francesco Antinucci, Director of Research, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Power Point Presentation: PPT
Session II: Virtual Heritage
Maurizio Forte, Senior Researcher, Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural
Heritage, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Bernard Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University
of Virginia
Transcript of remarks and presentation: PDF
Session III: Digital Libraries: Texts and Paintings
Andrea Bozzi, Director of Research, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Power Point Presentation: PPT
Massimo Riva, Professor, Italian Studies and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Power Point Presentation: PPT
Session IV: Preserving and Mapping Ancient Worlds
Massimo Cultraro, Researcher, Institute of Archeological Heritage, Monuments and Sites, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Sean Gillies, Chief Engineer, Pleiades Project, Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Presentation: PDF
Richard Talbert, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Ancient History, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Presentation: PDF
Session V: Monuments, Historic Sites and Memory
Arturo Agostino, Managing Director, Officina Rambaldi
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Arne Flaten, Assistant Professor of Art History, Coastal Carolina University
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Power Point Presentation: PPT [Note: large 20 MB file]
Gianpiero Perri, Project Director, Iraq Virtual Museum, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Transcript of remarks: PDF
Transcript of remarks: PDF