Global Art, Global Mind

19 March 2015 11:30 am

Venue: Room 129, C.K. Choi Building
Tags: Centre for Chinese Research

Speaker Bio Abby Aldrich Rockefeller professor of Asian art at Harvard University, Eugene Wang is widely recognized as one of the more dynamic scholars thinking about the history of Chinese art—from early Buddhist art to contemporary installations—in contemporary terms. He is best known for his award-winning book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in […]

The Birth of Nishikawa Sukenobu’s Shunpon: “Sex” and Publishing Culture

23 October 2015 3:30 pm

Venue: Room 129, C.K. Choi Building
Tags: Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Birth of Nishikawa Sukenobu’s Shunpon: “Sex” and Publishing Culture Professor Takashi Nakajima (Waseda University) Illustrated three-volume works by Nishikawa Sukenobu—said even to be the cause of the government’s publishing restrictions of the Kyōhō era—were revolutionary shunpon (pornographic books) because of a particular rich aesthetic consciousness. Iro hiinagata (1711) and Nasake hiinagata (1712), written by […]

Language, globalization and youth in the Asian Periphery

27 September 2017 12:00 pm

Venue: Room 129, C.K. Choi Building

Join Dr. Sender Dovchin, Associate Professor at the Centre for Language Research at The University of Aizu, Japan as she presents her research on the “linguascapes” of young adults situated on the Asian periphery, focusing specifically on Mongolia, in online and offline environments.

The State of Ethics: Moral and Civic Education in Ulaanbaatar

17 September 2019 4:00 pm

Venue: Room 129, C.K. Choi Building

Join us for this Institute of Asian Research event on the state of ethics in Mongolia, with special guest Jade Richards.

Investigation of Book Covers and Paper from the Edo Period

25 September 2019 12:00 pm

Venue: Room 129, C.K. Choi Building

Kazuko Hioki will talk about rarely documented and researched recycled papermaking and book cover production from a conservator’s perspective.