Launch of the Japanese Maps Digital Collection on Manchester Digital Collections
Sonia Favi
I would like to announce the launch of a new Japanese Maps Digital Collection, created in collaboration with the John Rylands University Library at the University of Manchester (UK), as part of my Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Project (Travel in Tokugawa Period Japan (1603-1868): Identity, Nation and Social Transformation, 2019-2021).
The Collection is part of the Manchester Digital Collection portal, and draws on cartographic materials from the University of Manchester Library Japanese Collection and the Maps Collection. It is an ongoing project, to which items are being progressively added.
The following blog post provides a general overview of the collection: https://rylandscollections.com/2021/03/08/japanese-maps-collection-launches-on-manchester-digital-collections/
I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you of the call for papers for an International Symposium, linked to the Collection and to my research project: https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:c1ij-kkwho9xf-x8mvg8/call-for-submissions-international-online-symposium-travel-in-a-modernizing-world-17001840-materiality-transformation-and-representation
I hope this finds your interest and provides a useful resource for research and teaching. Any feedback will be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Sonia Favi
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow
John Rylands Research Institute
The University of Manchester
150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH
tho...@khist.uzh.ch
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International Symposium – Exhibiting ‘Japan’ Overseas: Overseas Contexts and Japan’s Contexts (29 March 2021)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite everyone (in non-sleep-depriving time zones) to attend this symposium jointly organized by the National Museum of Japanese History and the Section for East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich.
General information
The symposium will take place online (via Zoom) on Monday, 29th March 2021.
Please note that the talks will be in Japanese, with the exception of the ETH Remote Survey Panel, where the language is English with Japanese subtitles.
For questions regarding the symposium, contact Prof. Hans Bjarne Thomsen at: tho...@khist.uzh.ch
Registration
The symposium is open to the public. Those wishing to attend are required to register using the following link:
https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english/education_research/research/list/inter/2021/symposium2021.html
Conference abstract and list of speakers
Japan’s scholars tend to understand Japanese overseas materials in terms of Japanese contexts and the circumstances in which they came into existence. The focus has been on recovering overseas materials in terms of Japan’s lost heritage. However, these overseas materials have also constructed new meanings in the places to which they were brought. A new way of understanding these objects should be to combine local and international concerns. This online symposium will consider the roles of Japanese materials in overseas contexts. Furthermore, it will also present case-study research on remote surveys carried out in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
This online symposium is organized by the National Museum of Japanese History (National Institutes for the Humanities) and the Section East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich, and will feature the following participants (in order of appearance):
Prof. Kaori Hidaka, National Museum of Japanese History
Prof. Hans Bjarne Thomsen, University of Zurich
Prof. Mariko Fukuoka, National Museum of Japanese History
Prof. Hiroshi Kurushima, National Museum of Japanese History
Alina Martimaynova, MA, University of Zurich
Director Linda Schädler, ETH Graphische Sammlung
Dr. Susanne Pollack, ETH Graphische Sammlung
BA students of the Section for East Asian Art History, University of Zurich:
Angelika Castelli, Florence Marti, Simone Preiser, Elisabeth Eibner, and Olga Nazarova
Prof. Makoto Gotō, National Museum of Japanese History
Prof. Jun’ichi Ōkubo, National Museum of Japanese History
Symposium programme
Please note that times for both Japan (J) and Switzerland (S) are given in the programme below.
17:30 - 17:40 (J) Opening address
10:30 - 10:40 (S) HIDAKA Kaori (National Museum of Japanese History)
17:40 - 18:05 (J) Japanese Art in the West and Its Exhibitions
10:40－11:05 (S) Hans Bjarne Thomsen (University of Zurich)
18:05－18:30 (J) The “Japan” that the First Japanese Mission to the U.S.A. of
1860 wished to display
11:05－11:30 (S) FUKUOKA Mariko (National Museum of Japanese History)
18:30－18:45 (J) Comment
11:30－11:45 (S) KURUSHIMA Hiroshi (National Museum of Japanese History)
18:45－19:10 (J) Experiments in Remote Surveys
11:45－12:10 (S) University of Zurich East Asian Art History Department,
and the ETH Graphische Sammlung
19:10－19:25 (J) Comment
12:10－12:25 (S) GOTO Makoto (National Museum of Japanese History)
19:25－19:30 (J) Closing words
12:25－12:30 (S) OKUBO Junichi (National Museum of Japanese History)
(Facilitator: SAWADA Kazuto, National Museum of Japanese History)
More details, including abstracts can be found at the following sites:
http://e-zaigai.jp/en/projects/all/1230
https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/ostasien/Aktuelles/Rekihaku.html
Professor and Chair
Section for East Asian Art
University of Zurich
Rämistrasse 73
CH-8006 Zurich
Switzerland
tho...@khist.uzh.ch
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