Global Samurai symposium in London and online, this Friday and Saturday
Oleg Benesch
Dear Colleagues,
Thank
you for your patience. I'm writing with more information regarding the
symposium we're holding at SOAS University of London this Friday and
Saturday (10-11 April), as part of the programme of the Samurai exhibition currently on at the British Museum.
The symposium will present the results of the international research project on "Global Samurai", co-chaired by Dr Rosina Buckland (Curator of the Japanese Collections at the British Museum) and myself. Both in-person and online participation will be possible. For more information regarding attendance, including free registration, please see the Global Samurai Symposium page. For those attending online, there will be further information and links provided on that page by Thursday.
This public symposium presents an opportunity to delve more deeply into aspects of the samurai revealed by this new research, and to ask questions of the experts behind the project, several whom are members of this list. The research project has fed into the new book Samurai that accompanies the exhibition, as well as into two forthcoming special issues of Japan Review, the first of which will appear soon.
Please find attached the updated programme for the symposium. We hope to see many of you there and online!
All the best,
Oleg
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