Previous Events
2010
22 June-29 August 2010
unearthed
Exhibition at Lower Gallery, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
19 August 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Under Western Eyes:
Walter Clutterbuck's Visit to the Ryūkyū Islands in 1898-99
Clive Wilkins-Jones
Community Librarian, Norfolk Library & Information Service
15, 22 May 2010
Inaugural Carmen Blacker Lecture
Carmen Blacker and Japan
Donald Keene
Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
15 July 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Carmen Blacker and Japan
Donald Keene
Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
17 June 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
unearthed: Ceramic Figures from Prehistoric Japan and the Balkans
Simon Kaner
Assistant Director: Sainsbury Institute
20 May 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Making Japanese Tea
Kristin Surak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2009-10
Japan in German Cinema
Film Director Doris Dörrie in Norwich
1 May 2010 | 4-8pm.
Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)
UEA Lecture Theatre 2, 4pm screening
Introduction by Ulrich Heinze, University of East Anglia
Discussion on 'Religion in Japan' with Harald Conrad, University of Sheffield
All welcome. Admission free.
4 May 2010 | 4-8pm.
Cherry Blossom Hanami (2007)
UEA Lecture Theatre 2, 4pm screening
6.30pm open seminar with Doris Dörrie
All welcome. Admission free.
5 May 2010 | 5.15-8.30pm
Cherry Blossom Hanami (2007)
Cinema City, Norwich, Screen 1
Q&A with Doris Dörrie at 7.30pm
£2 entrance fee; tickets available at Cinema City box-office
15 April 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Selling the War to the People:
Kamishibai (Paper Theatre) and World War II Propaganda in Japan
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Senior Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute
Professor of Asian Studies and Women's & Gender Studies, University of British Columbia
20 March 2010
One Thousand Years of Japanese Literature in Art: Celebrating Ten Years of International Research
Sainsbury Institute 10th Anniversary Workshop
Venue: Khalili Lecture Hall, SOAS, University of London
Sponsored by
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
In co-operation with
SOAS, University of London
Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
With support of
Prime Minister's Initiative Programme (PMI2, British Council)
Participants
Ryo Akama
John T. Carpenter
Timothy Clark
Christine Guth
Alfred Haft
Sachiko Idemitsu
Simon Kaner
Angus Lockyer
Shinya Maezaki
Shane McCausland
Joshua S. Mostow
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Ellis Tinios
18 March 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
The Ise Stories (Ise monogatari): Text, Image, and Reading
Joshua Mostow
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute
Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
12-13 March 2010 | 9am-4pm
Sainsbury Institute 10th Anniversary Workshop and Conference
Cultural Heritage? in East Asia
Speakers on Japanese Heritage:
Ogino Masahiro, Professor, Department of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University
Jordan Sand, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Georgetown University
Mouri Kazuo, Journalist, Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Akira Matsuda, Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow, Sainsbury Institute
Speakers on Chinese heritage:
Yang Fuquan, Deputy Director, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences
Marina Svensson, Associate Professor, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Gwen Bennett, Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, McGill University
Lai Guolong, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Florida
Speakers on Korean Heritage:
Asakura Toshio, Professor, National Museum of Ethnology
Choe Jong-ho, Professor, Department of Cultural Properties Management, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage
Panel Chairs:
John Mack, Professor, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia
Luisa Mengoni, Curator, Chinese Collections, Department of Asia, V&A
Charlotte Horlyck, Lecturer in the History of Korean Art, Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Akira Matsuda, Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow, Sainsbury Institute
Venue:
Workshop
Lecture Theatre, School of World Art Studies and Museology
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Conference
G6 Lecture Theatre, Institute of Archaeology
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
8 March 2010 | 1.15pm
Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle
Imari, the Influence of China
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Director, Sainsbury Institute
Venue: Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT
3 March 2010 | 4pm
World Art Research Seminar
'unearthed': Researching and Presenting Ceramic Figures from Prehistoric Japan and the Balkans
Simon Kaner, Assistant Director, Sainsbury Institute
Andrew Cochrane, Project Curator: unearthed Exhibition, Sainsbury Institute and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
19 February 2010
Japan Local Government Centre Speakers Series
Japanese Ceramics at the British Museum, and in Particular Their 19th Century Connection to Japan
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Director, Sainsbury Institute
Japan Local Government Centre, Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR),
First Floor, 15 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DD, UK
18 February 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Craft (Kōgei): Transmission and Continuity
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Director, Sainsbury Institute
11 February 2010
Cardiff Japanese Studies Seminar
Nationalism as Nostalgia in Ishihara Shintaro's Kamikaze Film Ore
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media
Room C23, Cardiff Business School, Aberconway Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff
11 February 2010
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Making Tea, Making Japanese: Towards a Praexology of Cultural Nationalism
Kristin Surak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2009-10
Dahrendorf Room, Founders? Building, St. Antony?s College, Oxford
10 February 2010
Japan Research Centre Lecture
Re-making Japanese Tea
Kristin Surak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2009-10
G50, College Building, SOAS, University of London
3 February 2010
Japan Research Centre Lecture
Allusion and Authority: The Love-Song of Lord Takafusa and Its Illustrated Scroll
Joshua S. Mostow
Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2009-10
G50, College Building, SOAS, University of London
3 February 2010
Japan Research Centre Lecture
Killer Kitsch: Kamishibai and Japanese Propaganda, 1937-45
Joshua S. Mostow
Professor of Asian Studies and Women's & Gender Studies,
University of British Columbia
Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute
G50, College Building, SOAS, University of London
28 January 2010
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Killer Kitsch: Kamishibai and Japanese Propaganda, 1937-45
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor of Asian Studies and Women's & Gender Studies,
University of British Columbia
Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute
Dahrendorf Room, Founders? Building, St. Antony?s College, Oxford
8-28 January 2010
Your East
Exhibition at Link Corridor, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
21 January 2010
Third Thursday Lecture
Creating the History of Japanese Art in the British Museum
Princess Akiko of Mikasa
Research Fellow, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
6 January 2010
Lecture at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Dogu: Power and Display in Jomon Japan
Simon Kaner
Assistant Director, Sainsbury Institute
l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2009
5 November 2009-3 January 2010
Manga: Professor Munataka's British Museum Adventure
Room 3, British Museum
17 December 2009
Third Thursday Lecture
Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885
Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Former British Ambassador to Japan
Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich
10 September-22 November 2009
The Power of Dogu: Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan
Exhibition at the British Museum
13, 16, 19 November 2009
Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art
Rethinking Art After the Age of 'Enlightenment'
David Elliott
Artistic Director, 17th Biennale of Sydney
13 November
Art as a Virus: The Condition of Art and the End of Universalism
BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum
16 November
Wounds, Happiness and Distance: Three Exhibitions about the Condition of Art
BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum
19 November
Turkey, China and Japan: Three Case Studies in the Development of Modern and Contemporary Art
Blackfriars' Hall,Norwich
19 November 2009
Third Thursday Lecture
Turkey, China and Japan: Three Case Studies in the Development of Modern and Contemporary Art
David Elliott
Artistic Director, 17th Biennale of Sydney
Blackfriars' Hall, St Andrews Plain, Norwich
24-25 October 2009
Words for Design International Workshop, Corfu
Lasse Brunnström
Professor in Design History, School of Design and Crafts (HDK), University of Gothenburg
Haruhiko Fujita
Professor of Aesthetics, Osaka University
Sheila Gies
Department of Clothing Design and Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Director, Brazil 3B Scientific Imp Exp. Ltd., Brazil.
Masatomo Kawai
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Kazumi Murose
Urushi lacquer artists and 'Living National Treasure'
Ibrahim Soner Ozdemir
Middle East Technical University
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Director, Sainsbury Institute
Soranart Sinuraibhan
Lecturer, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Keisuke Takayasu
Associate Professor of Aesthetics, Ehime University
Artemis Yagou
Deputy Course Leader of Interdisciplinary MA in Design, AKTO Art and Design, Greece
Despina Zernioti
Director, Museum of Asian Art, Corfu
23 October 2009
Visualisation in Archaeology Workshop
unearthing: The Exhibition
Andrew Cochrane
Project Curator: unearthed Exhibition at the Sainsbury Institute and the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts
University of Southhampton
15 October 2009
Third Thursday Lecture
Turkey, China and Japan: Three Case Studies in the Development of Modern and Contemporary Art
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media
Sainsbury Institute and School of Film and Television Studies, UEA
17 September 2009
Third Thursday Lecture
Dodonæus in Japan: From Herbal to Natural History
Willy Vande Walle
Professor of Japanese Studies, Catholic University of Leuven
Blackfriars' Hall, St Andrews Plain, Norwich
16-19 September 2009
European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists Conference
Maids Head Hotel, Norwich