9 May 2013
International Japanese Modern Art History Symposium (JAMAHS)
Categorised under: Art & Exhibitions, Education, Events
New Boundaries in Modern Japanese Art History: Extending Geographical, Temporal and Generic Paradigms. From 19 to 20 June 2013 at SOAS, University of London (Russell Sq campus).
SOAS will hold an international symposium on Japanese Modern Art and its History, with the aim of giving insights into the changing boundaries and concepts of Japanese and wider East Asian art in the 19th century. In particular, we hope to review prevailing assumptions such as the caesura between Edo and Meiji, the birth of Modern Art and the Historiography of Japanese Art as a whole, and the fragmentation of Japanese from East Asian Art in the 19th century. We will also address questions of what kind of methodology should be used to re-construct an Asian art history.
Six lead speakers will be:
- Christine Guth (Royal College of Art)
- Naoyuki Kinoshita (University of Tokyo)
- Noriaki Kitazawa (Joshibi University of Art and Design)
- Tamaki Maeda (University of Washington)
- Dōshin Satō (Tokyo University of the Arts)
- Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine).
Five other experts will talk about their research on 19th and early 20th century art, namely:
- Gen Adachi
- Rosina Buckland (National Museums Scotland)
- Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
- Younjung Oh (SISJAC)
- Rhiannon Paget (University of Sydney).
Draft Programme
AdmissionFree and open to the public. Booking recommend to guarantee a place.
To register visit www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/
Organised in collaboration with Japan Foundation, SISJAC and JSPS