2011
28 September-17 December 2011
Special Exhibition at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
Eight Masters of Ukiyo-e:
Masterpieces from the Museum of Asian Art of Corfu
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
101 Bis Quai Branly, 75015 Paris
15 December 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Images of Japan 1885-1912: Scenes, Tales and Flowers
Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Former British Ambassador to Japan
2 December 2011
European Centre for Japanese Studies in Alsace (CEEJA) Workshop
Jomon Knowledge and Technology, Philosophy and Worldview
Kobayashi Tatsuo
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Kokugakuin University
Honorary Director, Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
DRAC, Palais du Rhin, 2 Place de la Republique, 67802, Strasbourg, France
23 November 2011
Japan Research Centre Lecture
Photography and the Gaze of the Emperor (tenran)
Gyewon Kim
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2011-12
Room G50, College Building, SOAS
22 November 2011
CJS Launch at the Japanese Embassy
Embassy of Japan
18 November 2011
East Asian Art and Archaeology Research Seminar
Tracing the Emperor: Photography and the Famous Imperial Places in Japan
Gyewon Kim
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2011-12
Room B111, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
18 November 2011
Great Britain Sasakawa Conference
Keeping Japan on the Map
11, 14, 17 November 2011
Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art 2011
Words from Images/ Images Cast Out of Words:
Chinese-style Literature and the Visual Arts of 19th Century Japan
Robert Campbell
Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Tokyo
17 November 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
On the Edge of Power:
Cultural Performances by Feudal Lords, Rebel Leaders and Meiji-era Bureaucrats
Robert Campbell
Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Tokyo
8 November 2011
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Book Launch
Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure
By Hoshino Yukinobu
Published by British Museum Press
Talk by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Rayna Denison
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
30 October, 1 November, 5 November 2011
Film Screening
Worlds of Girlcraft
Cinema City, St. Andrew's Hall Norwich, NR2 4AD
26 October 2011
Rescuing Archaeology and Culture Symposium:
The Impact on Cultural Heritage of the March 11 East Japan Great Earthquake
Embassy of Japan
20 October 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Learning to Slurp: History, Noodles and Popular Culture in Japan
Barak Kushner
Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge
28 September 2011
Inaugural Lecture for the Centre of Japanese Studies, UEA
The Power of Japanese Society in the Face of the Earthquake and the Chaos of Domestic Politics
Yakushiji Katsuyuki
Professor of Social and International Relations, Toyo University, Tokyo
15 September 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Ōkyo: Towering Above and Reaching Beyond the Sea
Josef Kyburz
Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(National Center for Scientific Research), Paris
18 August 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Midwife and Manga Heroine:
Oine Siebold, Nagasaki and the Birth of Modern Japan
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media Sainsbury Institute
and Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia
21 July 2011
Carmen Blacker Lecture
'Initiatic Landscape' and Shugendō's Mountain-entry
Anne Bouchy
Director of Studies of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
9 July 2011
Toshiba International Foundation Lecture
Dogu: Jomon Ambassadors
Simon Kaner
Head of Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, Sainsbury Institute
5 July 2011
Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics 2011
Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Manga
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media
Sainsbury Institute and Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia
20 June 2011
Japan Society Public Lecture
Midwife and Manga Heroine: Oine Siebold, Nagasaki and the Birth of Modern Japan
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media
Sainsbury Institute and Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia
16 June 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Absence and Presence in Contemporary Japanese Sculpture
Neil Powell
Director of Studies, Norwich University College of the Arts
31 May 2011
Virtual Cities Workshop
Computer modeling and simulating the urban environment in Kyoto and Norwich
Sponsors:
Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
Norwich HEART
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
27 May 2011
7th Colloquium in Qualitative Health Care Research
EmBodyMents in Japanese Pop Culture: Empirical and Narrative Approaches to Medical Technologies, Genetics, Robotics and Prosthetics
Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media Sainsbury Institute
Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich
19 May 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Japanese Art in the National Museum in Krakow, donated by Feliks Jasieński (1861-1929)
Beata Romanowicz
Curator, Department of Far Eastern Art, National Museum in Krakow
14 April 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Japanese Ceramics in the British Museum
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Director, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
18 April 2011
Japan Society Public Lecture
'Art Historicism' and Contemporary Japanese Art
John Szostak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, 2010-11
RAssistant Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
23 March 2011
Latin American Association for Asian and African Studies (ALADAA) Conference
Digital Humanities and International Research on Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books
John T Carpenter
Head of London Office, Sainsbury Insititute
Reader in the History of Japanese Art, SOAS, University of London
17 March 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
'Anti-Beauty' Portraits and Modern Painting in Japan
John Szostak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, 2010-11
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii
21 February 2011
University of Cambridge Asian Studies Seminar Series
Nihonga Painting and the Japanese Reception of Artistic Modernism
John Szostak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 20010-11
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
17 February 2011
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Foul is Fair: 'Anti-Beauty' as Vehicle for Artistic Modernism in Japan
John Szostak
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 20010-11
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St. Antony?s College, Oxford
17 February 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
Landscape of Industrial Heritage in Japan: Social and Aesthetic Significance
Masaaki Okada
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kinki University
Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
17 February 2011
Archaeology Workshop
Comparative Perspectives on Japanese Archaeology: Case Studies from Europe and Japan
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
64 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH
9 February 2011
Japan Research Centre Lecture
From Miniature to Monumental: Exhibiting Dogu and Haniwa from Gowland to Gormley
Simon Kaner
SOAS, University of London
20 January 2011
Third Thursday Lecture
The Dragon and the Dazzle: Japanese Imagination in Italy
Marco Pellitteri
Research Associate, London Metropolitan University
18 January 2011
Jomon Symposium
Jômon, patrimoine mondial?
Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris