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Zurich Lectures in East Asian Art History - Guest lectures by Prof. Dr. Andrews and Prof. Dr. Fraser
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
18:15-19:45
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
Room RAA-G-15
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Guest Lecture by Dr. Sarah Rebecca Schmid
The Once and Future Territory: Jingū kōgō’s Subjugation of the Korean Peninsula in Meiji Period Visual Culture
Dr. Sarah Rebecca Schmid
(University of Zurich)
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 14:45–15:45
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
KOL-F-104
Abstract:
Jingū kōgō, also known as Empress Jingū, has been part of Japanese historiography at least since the compilation of the Kojiki (712) and the Nihon shoki (720). While many may not be familiar with the name today, Jingū kōgō has been a mainstay of Japanese culture for over a millennium and has historically played a significant role in Japanese perceptions of Korea. She retained this role until the first half of the 20th century, when she was used to help justify the Japanese annexation of Korea.
This talk will provide an insight into the role that visual and textual material related to Jingū kōgō (often in combination) played during the Meiji period (1868‒1912) in the run-up to the annexation of Korea. The narrative most closely associated with Jingū kōgō, namely her (legendary) subjugation of the three Korean kingdoms of Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo in the 3rd century AD, appeared on banknotes, in history textbooks, on woodblock prints, and even on votive tablets (ema) dedicated to shrines. The talk will take a closer look at the visual culture of the Meiji period and discuss the ways in which these seemingly separate forms of pictorial expression are connected to each other.
Sarah Rebecca Schmid is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich. She holds an M.A. in East Asian Art History and Japanese Philology, and a PhD in Japanology. In 2025, she will begin a two-year fellowship at Kyūshū University in Fukuoka (Japan), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During this fellowship, she will continue her research on Jingū kōgō, particularly on the role she played in the Kyūshū and Kansai regions during the Meiji and early Taishō periods.
The lecture will be held in English and is open to all students. No registration is necessary. For questions, please contact us via email at kgoa@khist.uzh.ch
Zurich Lectures in East Asian Art History - Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Maya Stiller
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 18:15–19:30
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Room KOL-H-317
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15th Annual Kansai University EU Workshop
The 15th Annual Kansai University EU Workshop will take place on Wednesday, 6th November 2024, from 10:30–16:05 (CEST, UTC+2) at the UZH Main Building, Raemistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland, room KO2-F-152.
2024-KU-Workshop_Flyer (PDF, 359 KB)
KU-EU Workshop UZH Abstract Booklet (PDF, 641 KB)
Presentations will be held in Japanese and in English. The workshop is free and open to the public. No registration is required. We look forward to welcoming you!
About the KU-UZH Workshops
The purpose of these workshops is to gather established and young scholars from Japan and Switzerland in order to hold conversations on topics within East Asian art history.
The collaboration between Kansai University in Japan and the University of Zurich is a well-established tradition that takes place twice a year, once in Japan hosted by the Kansai University and once at the University of Zurich. These opportunities have given the advanced students at the University of Zurich the chance to present work in process at scholarly events, surrounded by both established professionals in the field and fellow students and future colleagues.
In Japan, the annual workshop is held on the Kansai University campus and in the mountains of Asuka. In both Japan and Zurich, the sessions are open to the public and widely advertised. Typically, visitors from the museum and academic worlds join us for the discussions.
The workshop is based on border crossing, as it represents collaboration between the academic cultures of Japan and Switzerland. Not only are the languages of the presentations mixed (English and Japanese), but the students and participating faculty members are from both countries. Thus, the young participants get not only a living impression of the presentation styles of both cultures, but also the type of feedback from people working in other countries. For the students the workshops represent a superb way to make connections to their peers across borders. The workshops symbolize the global and cross-cultural aspects of education: by crossing borders we can achieve new forms of communication.
The workshop members typically consist of three faculty members from the Kansai University and one or two member from the University of Zurich. The presenters are advanced students from both universities. The organizers are Professor Ewa Machotka from the University of Zurich and various professors from the Kansai University.
Leiden University-Zurich University Workshop: Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
Thursday, October 31, 2024, 09:30 - 18:00
Location:
Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden
Room Lipsius 2.27
Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
This workshop brings together historians of the arts of East Asia to highlight the agency of nonhuman actors and actants in shaping knowledge about the world in visual and material culture in the early modern period and beyond. Presentations will cover the representation of animals and plants, paying particular attention to their relationship with human actors. In addition, we see this relation not as a one-way and hierarchic human-centered process but as a continuous feedback loop between people and the environment.
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Excursion: East Asian Art Collections in the Netherlands
Utagawa Kunimaro (c. 1850–75), “Picture of a Ferocious Tiger Drawn from Life,” 1860, multicolor woodblock print; Sleeve Vase Decorated with Birds and Flowering Branches (detail), c. 1675 - c. 1699. Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamOctober 27–November 1, 2024
This course explores the rich and distinctive collections of East Asian Art preserved in the Netherlands on both practical and theoretical levels, including a workshop jointly organized with Leiden University students. Through a series of museum visits and object-handling sessions guided by museum curators and private collectors, it offers students a firsthand and practical opportunity to engage directly with art objects.
Through a series of museum visits and object-handling sessions guided by museum curators and private collectors, it offers students a firsthand and practical opportunity to engage directly with art objects. The history of East Asian collections in the Netherlands is intertwined with centuries of trade, diplomacy, and cultural exchange between the Low Countries and East Asia. While the Dutch East India Company (VOC) played a significant role in establishing economic, political, and cultural connections, it is not the sole agent of this exchange. These interactions facilitated the acquisition of East Asian objects, which subsequently found their place in private collections, royal cabinets of curiosities, and eventually, public museums and institutions. The course aims to provide insight into these rich histories and their lasting effects.
By facilitating direct engagement with art objects, this course aims to enhance students' skills in visual analysis, interpretation, and critical thinking. It also seeks to deepen their contextual understanding of objects in museum settings, exposing how art and material culture intersect with historical narratives and cultural practices. Moreover, it provides insight into the operation of cultural heritage institutions by acquainting students with museum practices, exhibition design, and curatorial methodologies, essential for students’ professional development.
The course will comprise of three in-class preparatory sessions in Zurich and a four-day on-site program (six days including travel time) featuring visits to various locations including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. The course also includes a joint workshop titled ”Animal Studies and East Asian Art” organized with Leiden University where students will have opportunity to collaborate with their peers from Leiden University.
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Guest Lecture by Dr. Melissa Ann Kaul
Introducing the “Animal Turn” into Asian Studies
Dr. Melissa Ann Kaul (UZH and University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 16:45–17:30
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
Room RAA-G-15
Abstract:
The academic debate on non-human animals is attracting more and more attention worldwide. Disciplines outside the natural sciences in particular have long found it difficult to regard animals as morally valuable enough to be integrated into scientific discourse at all. The works "Animal Liberation" (1975) by Peter Singer and "The Case for Animal Rights" (1983) by Tom Regan marked the birth of the modern animal rights movement and simultaneously brought the treatment of non-human animals to centre stage. The field of Animal Studies, which is becoming increasingly recognised today, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the way in which non-human animals are culturally represented and constructed. However, this so-called 'animal turn' in academic disciplines has so far been limited to Western thinkers and their concepts and theories, largely ignoring Asian philosophy. This is despite the fact that non-human animals have played and continue to play an equally important role in various Asian cultures, not least in their visual representation.
This lecture will therefore not only introduce Animal Studies (in particular Animal Ethics) and the concept of Posthumanism but will also use a Japanese pre-modern thinker to show how animal studies can benefit from and be expanded by East Asian thought.
Melissa Ann Kaul is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility-scholarship holder and an Academic visitor at the school of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science of the University of Edinburgh. She has studied Japanese Studies, Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich and holds a PhD in Japanese Philology. Her main topics of research include Animal Ethics, Human-Animal-Relationship in Premodern Japan, Andō Shōeki and Neoconfucianism in Japan.
The lecture will be held in English and is open to all students. No registration is necessary. For questions, please contact us via email at kgoa@khist.uzh.ch
Studieninformationstage 4. & 5. September 2024
Programm Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens:
Mittwoch, 4. September 2024
11:15 - 12:00 Uhr Studienpräsentation Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens mit Q&A
(Assistentinnen und Studierende des Lehrstuhls Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens)
Raum KOL-H-321
13:30 - 14:15 Uhr Vorlesung Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens: Hokusai - The Father of Manga?
(auf Englisch, Ewa Machotka, Professorin für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens)
Raum KOL-F-109
Donnerstag, 5. September 2024
11:15 - 12:00 Uhr Studienpräsentation Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens mit Q&A
(Assistentinnen und Studierende des Lehrstuhls Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens)
Raum KOL-H-321
13:30 - 14:15 Uhr Vorlesung Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens: Hokusai - The Father of Manga?
(auf Englisch, Ewa Machotka, Professorin für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens)
Raum KOL-F-109
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UZH Study - Plattform der Studienionformationstage 2024 (für Anmeldung und weitere Informationen)
Embodied Poems and Samurai Love: Poems for Screen-Paintings (Byōbu-e) and Imaginary Portraits (Kasen-e)
Prof. Joshua S. Mostow (University of British Columbia)
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 18:15–20:00
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, Room RAA-G-15
Ecce homo: the Japanese Male Body in Pain in WWII Visual Propaganda
Prof. Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 18:15–20:00
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, Room RAA-G-15
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MasterTage: 7th March, 2024
11:00–12:00
MA studies in East Asian Art History: Presentation with students
(in English, together with Art History in a Global Context)
Online via Zoom
Public Lecture:
Contemporary Kimono: From Family Ceremonies to High-fashion Communities
Prof. Lucile Druet, Kansai Gaidai University
Friday, 22nd December 2023, 18:00-19:00
Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich, Room RAA-G-15
Abstract
For the past three years the traveling exhibition “Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk” has been highlighting several important perspectives about the design and the sartorial practice of kimono. The show engages the different garments’ material and cultural specificities, how the kimono is connected to ideas of class and identity while inspiring a variety of fashion creators from the Edo period to our contemporary age, inside and outside Japan. This presentation focuses on the latest segment of the kimono’s complex history, namely from the postwar to the Covid-19 era, examining how such an iconic mode of dress as kimono continues to interpellate concepts of immutability, transmission and family as well as innovation, playfulness and creativity. By using a variety of visual and textual references (from the exhibition, personal research and observations), it aims at showing how kimono is spectacularly global and local at the same time, and how kimono “traditions” can be innovative while new creations can surprisingly be conservative.
Lucile Druet is Associate Professor of Japanese Arts for the Asian Studies Program at Kansai Gaidai University (Hirakata, Osaka). Her teaching covers literature, painting traditions, theatrical performances, film and Japanese fashion, focusing on kimono. Interested in the intersection of clothing and embodiment, she researches how kimono is currently practiced in Kyoto (Maiko and Geiko communities, rental and second-hand shops) and how it appears in works of fiction (Tanizaki Jun’Ichiro, Ariyoshi Sawako, Hayashi Mariko) and poetry (Izumi Shikibu, Yosano Akiko).
Flyer (PDF, 161 KB)
This lecture will be held in English and is open to the public (no registration is necessary).
For questions, please contact the Section for East Asian Art History: kgoa@khist.uzh.ch
