Speaker: Gregory Levine, Professor, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley
This short talk introduces Buddhist icons carved into standing and usually living trees in Japan (tachikibutsu), a practice that appears to begin in the...
Speaker: Jihye Kim, Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Osaka University
In spite of its 400-year history, it has been only a short time since kabuki has come to be considered a traditional performing art. During the early years of the Meiji period, a number of kabuki plays portrayed the blooming of modern civilization...
Speaker: Carl Gellert, Lecturer, Seattle Central College
The research presented in this talk approaches the examination of archaeological remains from an art historical perspective, relying on a combination of material, iconographic, and textual analyses as a means of exploring the mortuary traditions of Japan’s...
Speaker:Andrew Leong, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, UC Berkeley
Generational terms such as “Issei” (first-generation) and “Nisei” (second-generation) did not appear to be in common use in Japanese American immigrant society...
February 17, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
