Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungen / Conferences and Exhibitions (2018–2023)

KEY-NOTES, PEER-REVIEWED AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS (2018-2023)    

More than 40 research presentations, keynotes and invited lectures in Europe, North America, and Asia, including key note speeches (KN); peer-reviewed papers (PR), invited talks (IT), and papers delivered as the event’s organizer (OR). The list features events in the last 5 years (2018-2022).  

2023:  

• “Visual Culture of Disaster in Japan”, The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (IT).  
• “Leveraging the Spatiotemporal Analysis of Meisho-e Landscapes”, 26th International Conference on Discovery Science, October 2023, Porto, with Liagkou, K., Pavlopoulos J. (PR).  
• “Queering Japanese Posters”, invited paper to the international workshop “Courtly, Cute or Queer? New Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Visual Culture” University of Copenhagen, September 2023 (IT).  
• “Curating Environmental History in Early Modern Japan”, Panel: “Entanglements of Place, Identity, and the Environment in the Visual Culture of Early Modern East Asia”, the 3rd Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, September 2023, University of Ljubljana (PR), paper withdrawn.    
• “AI-powered Text Recognition of Inscriptions on Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints”, ARC Days 2023, August 2023, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, with Pavlopoulos J., Liagkou K. (IT)  
• “Remediating meisho-e: Disaster in Japanese Early-modern Landscape Prints", Panel: "Ecocritical Perspectives on meisho in the Visual Culture of Early Modern Japan", the 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), August 2023, Ghent University (PR).  
• “Visual Culture of Disaster in Early Modern Japan”, 17th Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS), European Institute of Japanese Studies, June 2023, Stockholm School of Economics (KN)  
• “Academic Leadership Bootcamp”, European National Young Academies Conference, May 2023, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm (OR).  
• “Disaster Cultures: Japanese Early Modern Landscape Prints in a Posthumanist Perspective”, May 2023, SOAS, University of London (IT).  

2022:  

• “Mapping meisho: NLP for Japanese Art History”, Conference: “The Digital Turn in Early Modern Japanese Studies”, December 2022, University of Cambridge , with Pavlopoulos J. (IT).  
• “Mapping Japanese Landscape Prints with NLP: Challenges and Solutions”, Workshop “Error Correcting HTR for Historical Manuscripts”, November 2022, Ca’Foscari University of Venice (OR)  
•  “Japanese Early Modern Landscape Prints in a Posthuman Perspective”, Lecture: “East Asian Art History: Current Research in Europe”, September 2022, Freie Universität Berlin (IT).  
• “Improving Named-Entity Recognition on titles of Ukiyo-e prints: Towards a ‘Distant  Viewing’ in Art History” at the Digital Humanities Conference 2022, (ADHO)  Responding to Asian Diversity, July 2022, Tokyo, with Pavlopoulos J., Chatzipanagiotou M., Lagkiou K. (PR).  
• “Distant Viewing of Ukiyo-e Prints.” The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation  
• Conference (LREC), June 2022, Marseilles, with Pavlopoulos J., Liagkou K. (PR).  
• “Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Mapping Cosmopolitan Mobilities of Landscape Imagination”, CIVIS Workshop, May 2022, Glasgow University (OR).  
• “Automated Harvesting of Geospatial Data form Ukiyo-e Prints with NLP”, Annual Report Meeting, The International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Ritsumeikan University, February 2022, Kyoto, with Pavlopoulos J., Lagkiou K. (IT).  

2021:  

• “Monet’s Pond in Tokyo: Aestheticizing Waterscapes and the Aura of Cosmopolitan Ecologies.” International Conference “Urban Nature, Urban Culture: Rethinking Water in Japan’s Cities”, 2021, Sophia University, with Watanabe T. (OR).  
• “Automated Recognition of Geographical Named Entities in Titles of Ukiyo-e prints.” Digital Humanities Workshop, 2021, Kiew University, with Pavlopoulos J., Chatzipanagiotou M. (PR).  
• “Image, Space, Object: Opening Remarks”, International Conference ”Digital Humanities Now”, 2021, Stockholm University (OR).  
• “Revisiting Hokusai’s Playground: From Intersemiotic Translation to Transmedia Storytelling” at the International Cambridge-Stockholm Workshop “Aesthetic Playfulness”, 2021, Stockholm University (IT).  

2020:  

• “Satoyama Art and Glocalization of Sustainability”, 2020, Sophia University (IT).  
• “Consuming Tradition: Packaging Design from Japan”, 2020, Sophia University (IT).  
• “Vernacular Mapping: Early Modern Imaginaries of Lake Biwa in a Computational Perspective”, International Conference at “Mapping Global Imaginary 1500-1900”, 2020, Stanford University (PR).  
• “Art in the Time of Greenwashing: Waterfront Redevelopment in Tokyo”, 2020, Bolin Centre of Climate Research, Stockholm (IT).  

2018:  

• “Data Science for Digital Art History: Negotiating Close and Distant Reading”, KDD 2018 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2018, London (PR).  
• “Art and Communication of Global Climate Change”, Mirai Sustainability Workshop, 2018, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (KN).  
• “Consuming Eco-Consciousness: Art and Social-Ecological Resilience in Japan”, Research Workshop “Pathways to New Collaborations in Climate Research”, 2018,  Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm (IT).  
• “Marketing Modernity: Women in Japanese Pre-war Beer Posters”, International Workshop “Performing Gender and Place in Early Modern and Modern Japan”, 2018, Leiden University (IT).  

KEY-NOTES, PEER-REVIEWED AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS (before 2018) 

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS:

• 2023 Workshop “New Imaginations for Climate Action”, organized by the Art, Science and Policy Lab for New Climate Solutions, Accelerator, Stockholm University, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2023 Workshop “Academic Leadership Bootcamp” at The European National Young Academies (ENYA) Conference, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2023 Workshop “How do We Propel Climate Policy Forward?”, organized by the Art, Science and Policy Lab for New Climate Solutions, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2022 HTREC Workshop “The Future of the Challenge: HTR for Historical Japanese Woodblock-printed Materials”, Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2022 Conference “Internationalization and Academic Mobility in the 21st Century”, Joint project between the Young Academy of Sweden and the Wenner-Gren Center,   Stockholm, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2022 CIVIS Workshop “Cultural Translation between Europe and Asia in the Heritage Sector”, University of Glasgow, Role: PC member.  
• 2022 ALLEA session: “Open Science: From Intention to Action”, ALLEA+ ENYA General   Assembly, Brussels. Role: chair.  
• 2021 Conference “Urban Nature, Urban Culture: Rethinking Water in Japan’s Cities”, Sophia University, Tokyo, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2021 Conference “Digital Humanities Now”, Stockholm University, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2019 Workshop “Rivers as Method: Environmental Approaches to History and Society in Japan”, Joint event between Stockholm Univ., Consortium for Global Japanese Studies and Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Role: chair.  
• 2018 Workshop “Data Science for Digital Art History”, KDD 2018 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, London, Role: PC member, chair.  
• 2017 Workshop “From Analogue to Digital Humanities”, Joint event between Leiden Univ. and Ritsumeikan Univerity, Kyoto, Role: organizer, chair.  
• 2015 Workshop “Images of Women in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Leiden University, Role: organizer, chair.  
• 2014 Workshop “Art with Agenda: Socially Engaged Art Practices in Post-Cold War Japan”, Leiden University, Role: organizer, chair.  
• Inaugural Workshop “From Garbage to Art: Environmental Consciousness in Japan in the Post-Cold-War Era”, Leiden University, Role: co-organizer, chair.  
• 2007 Workshop “Japanese Art in Context: Public Realms and Private Realms”, Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow, Role: organizer, chair.   

CURATED EXHIBITIONS:    

• 2016–2017 Too Pretty to Throw Away: Packaging Design from Japan, temporary exhibition co-curated with K. Cwiertka held at:  

- Siebold House Museum, Leiden  
- Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow  
- Museum of Asia Pacific, Warszawa.  

• 2011 Japan Facing West: Western Influences on Japanese Art 1720-1912, temporary exhibition co-curated with A. Görlich, held at the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow.  
• 2011 En flytende verden: Den gang og nå? (The Floating World: Past or Present?), temporary exhibition co-curated with A. Rokkum, held at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.  
• 2011 Japansk bildkonst (Japanese Pictorial Arts), temporary exhibition curated at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.  
• 1999–2008 Permanent and temporary exhibitions held at the National Museum in Krakow.  
• 2001 Manga, Manggha, manga. Comic-strip Form and Animation in Japanese Art, temporary exhibition co-curated with B. Romanowicz and held at the National Museum in Krakow.  
• 1999 Kumihimo - Japanese Art of Braiding Bands, temporary exhibition co-curated with B. Romanowicz and held at the National Museum in Krakow.