Patrick Schwemmer (Musashi University)

“A Transgender Saint in Translation: Marina the Monk in the Secret Books of the Hidden Christians”

Alexandra Curvelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

“Weaving Relations: The Use of Exotic Textiles in Early Modern Japan”

Wang Ching-Ling (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

“Japanese Objects in the Chinese Imperial Collection and their Transcultural Context”’

Discussant: Hata Yasunori (Kyushu National Museum)

Andrew M. Watsky (Princeton University)

“Withered, Shrivelled, and Cold, Etcetera: Translating Tenshō Tea Aesthetics in a Global Age”

Matthew McKelway (Columbia University)

“Nanbanji and Nanbanjin: Still Pondering Nanban Screens”

Stephanie Porras (Tulane University)

“Ivory as a Littoral Material: Devotional Carving and Trade Across the Indian, Pacific and South China Seas”

Discussant: Edward S. Cooke (Yale University)

Bébio Vieira Amaro (Tianjin University)

“A Brief History of the Jesuit Facilities in Azuchi: New Insights on their Architectural and Urban Features”

Mayu Fujikawa 藤川 真由 (Meiji University)

“The Tenshō Embassy’s European Clothes: Court and Missionary Functions in Italy and Japan”

Mark Erdmann (University of Melbourne)

“Nebuchadnezzar’s Draw: Revisiting Philips van Winghe’s Sketches of Azuchi Castle”

Eliane Roux (University of Genoa / Azuchi Castle Screens Network)

“An ‘Antiquity’ from Japan: The Azuchi Castle Screens and Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century European Antiquary Networks”

Osami Takisawa 滝澤 修身 (Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University)

“Spain and the Azuchi Castle Screens”

Discussant: Samuel Luterbacher (Yale University)

Reinier Hesselink (University of Northern Iowa)

“Plotting Power on a Map”

Harrison Schley (Independent Scholar)

“They Also Came to Japan: Depictions of the European Slave Trade in Japanese Art”

Elizabeth Lillehoj (DePaul University)

“The 1596 Ming Investiture of a King of Japan and Hideyoshi’s Attempt to Reshape an East Asian Diplomatic Order”

Anton Schweizer (Kyushu University)

“Construing a New Deity: Nanban Fūryū Dancers in Kanō Naizen’s Toyokuni Festival Screens”

Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London)

“Nanban Elements in the Cult of Ieyasu as Tōshō Daigongen”

Discussants: Fabian Drixler (Yale University) & Morgan Pitelka (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Washizu Katsura 鷲頭 桂 (Tokyo National Museum)

“Global Circulation and Transformation of Japanese Folding Screens”

Andrew Maske (University of Kentucky)

“Tea Caddies, Trade, and Territory: Hakata Merchants and Hideyoshi’s Expansion of Power”

Sonia Ocaña (Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco)

“From Nanban Lacquer to New Spaniard Mother-of-pearl Inlaid Paintings (enconchados)”

Rie Arimura 有村 理恵 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

“The Rosary and the Juzu: An Interreligious Experience in Early Modern Japan”

Discussant: Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Yale University)

Keynote Lecture:
Yukio Lippit (Harvard University)

“The Pictorial Cultures of Nanban”

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Birgit Tremml-Werner (University of Växjö)

“Nanban, the Christian Century and Other Co-produced Tropes: Murakami Naojirō’s Legacy for the Historiography of Cultural Exchange”

Angelo Cattaneo (National Research Council CNR, Rome)

“Toward a Cultural Geography of Japan Through the Japanese ‘World Map’ Folding Screens (c. 1590-1650)”

Liam Matthew Brockey (Michigan State University)

“Getting News from Japan in Early Modern Europe”

Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne)

“Zipangu Before the Jesuits: Medieval European Missions to East Asia” - presentation cancelled

Discussant: D. Max Moerman (Columbia University)