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Panel 3: Empire-Building and the Politics of Othering

Thursday, February 11, 2021
9:00 AM 11:30 AM 09:00 11:30

Zoom Webinar Registration TBD (map)

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Participants

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)

Registration TBD

Source:: https://www.imapkyudai.net/nanban

Tagged Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age

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News & Upcoming Events

On December 2nd at 17:00 hr, Chui Hanni's (Associate Professor at National Taiwan University) will give the online lecture "Visualizing “Homeland”: The Development of Taiwanese Art during the Japanese Colonial Period." via Zoom. *Registration required.

Congratulations to IMAP and IDOC Fall 2024 graduates.

Congratulations to Raditya Halimawan Nuradi, the first IDOC graduate.

IMAP alumnus Kurtis Hanlon recently completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia and started teaching classical Japanese language and literature courses as a lecturer at Yale University.

First-year MA student Dino Van de Velde has received a scholarship 関西・大阪21世紀協会奨学金. Congratulations!

Professor Carter has been awarded a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar’s Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year to continue his research on mountaineering, religiosity, and modernity.

Professors Schweizer and Yang have been awarded a major grant from the Getty. Their project "Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean" will build a young academics' network in the East Asian Mediterranean.