A Symposium in Conjunction with the Exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Disorienting urban transformation, boundless enthusiasm for new technologies and cultures, increased international trade, and rising geopolitical tensions: these circumstances defined Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912) as much as they describe our own. Taken together with the final decade of the Tokugawa shoguns’ regime, in which Yokohama and other ports opened to direct trade with the US and other nations, this period constitutes “fifty years of new Japan.”
This symposium brings together leading scholars of Meiji art and culture from the United States, Great Britain, and Japan in order to reevaluate an artistic period described in terms of both continuity and change, westernization and the invention of Japanese tradition.
SCHEDULE
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING
Friday, May 3rd
Smart Museum of Art (5550 S. Greenwood Ave.)
Museum Hours: 10 am - 4:30 pm
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan Exhibition
International House, Assembly Hall (1414 E. 59th St.)
3:00 pm-3:15 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chelsea Foxwell (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago)
Bradley Bailey (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Introduction and Overview: Meiji Art in the Context of U.S.-Japan Relations
Chelsea Foxwell (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Keynote Lecture (in Japanese with English translation)
Satō Dōshin, Tokyo University of the Arts
Saturday, May 4
International House, Assembly Hall (1414 E. 59th St.)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm (order and schedule TBD)
Speaker Listing
Bradley Bailey, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Mami Hatayama, Roger L. Weston Foundation
Meghen Jones, Alfred University
Andreas Marks, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Alison Miller, University of the South
Rhiannon Paget, Ringling Museum of Art
Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, University of Michigan
Alice Tseng, Boston University
Takurō Tsunoda, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Art
SPONSORS
This program is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies (with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education), the Smart Museum of Art, the Center for the Art of East Asia, and the International House Global Voices Program at the University of Chicago.
ACCESSIBILITY
Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact International House in advance of the program at (773) 753-2274 or email: i-house-programs@uchicago.edu
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Smart Museum of Art – Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, Mar 21–Jun 9, 2024