Project: Visual Culture of Disaster in Early Modern Japan (2022–)

ONGOING PROJECTS / GRANTS:  

• Project: Visual Culture of Disaster in Early Modern Japan (2022-)  

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:    

The aim of this project is to advance the study of the interrelations between visual culture and environmental history, and the processes of visual enculturation through which disasters were constructed, perceived, and managed in early modern Japan. The project will result in a monograph titled Between Absence and Presence: Environmental Disaster in Early Modern Visual Culture of Japan, forthcoming from the Stockholm University Press.    

PROJECT MEMBER(S):

• Ewa Machotka, Professor in East Asian Art History, University of Zurich
  (ewa.machotka@khist.uzh.ch)    

PROJECT FUNDING:    

• Barbro Klein Fellowship 2023, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala (fully paid sabbatical for the academic year 2023-2024)  
• Magnus Bergvalls Foundation’s Publishing grant 2022  
• Åke Wibergs Foundation’s Publishing grant 2022