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 and
Richard Talbert, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Ancient History, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
(Joint Presentation)
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