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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/open-edo1/
SUMMARY:Open Edo: Diverse\, Ecological\, and Global Perspectives on Japanes
 e Art\, 1603–1868\, Conference 1: Global Edo: Edo in the World and the W
 orld in Edo
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey\, University of Ca
 lifornia\, Los Angeles\n\nThe subject of this initial conference is the lo
 ngstanding myth that Japan was hermetically sealed from the rest of the wo
 rld from the 1630s to 1853. While international travel and trade were inde
 ed forbidden\, Japan remained networked with those beyond its shores throu
 gh trade with the continent\, the Dutch\, the Ainu\, and the Ryūkyūs. Du
 ring this period\, fantasies of Japan proliferated abroad\, just as fantas
 ies of the outside world proliferated in Japan. Yet the restrictions on in
 ternational exchange did not mean that Japan was somehow isolated from mod
 ernity. In fact\, the metropolis of Edo actually exhibited many of the asp
 ects that would later come to be seen as “modern” by the European defi
 nition of the term. Put more forcefully\, early modernity seemed to thrive
  in a society that eschewed the Eurocentric model of “globalization.” 
 Likewise\, one should not conflate the Edo metropolis with the eponymous e
 ra\, for an exciting feature of early modern Japan is the existence of mul
 tiple metropolitan centers\, from Osaka and Kyoto to Nagasaki. This initia
 l conference will reframe the Edo period in more porous\, global\, network
 ed\, and dynamic terms.\n\nSpeakers\nRebekah Clements\, ICREA &amp\; Auton
 omous University of Barcelona\nCaitlin Karyadi\, University of Hong Kong\n
 Drisana Misra\, Cornell University\nAnton Schweizer\, Kyushu University\nT
 imon Screech\, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibu
 nken)\, Kyoto\nAkiko Walley\, University of Oregon\n\n\n\nAbout Open Edo: 
 Diverse\, Ecological\, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art\, 1603–18
 68\nThe art of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868) presents a paradox. On t
 he one hand\, the nineteenth-century proliferation of ukiyo-e—polychrome
  woodblock prints of the “floating words” of theater and sex work—ma
 de the popular visual culture of this city a familiar component of modern 
 art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet the outsize fascination
  with ukiyo-e outside Japan has sorely obscured Edo’s far more diverse s
 ocial\, material\, and artistic landscapes. In an effort to countervail th
 e enduring stereotypes of early modern Japanese art\, Open Edo will presen
 t a suite of conferences addressing three interlinked themes: the represen
 tation and agency of marginalized groups\, the ecological horizons of arti
 stic production\, and the ongoing need to counter the myth that Japan in e
 arly modernity was somehow disconnected from the rest of the world. Throug
 hout the year-long series\, the focus will be both historical and historio
 graphical inasmuch as Open Edo asks how Japanese art history might challen
 ge the discourse of early modernity writ large.\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\
 n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nBronwen Wilson\
 , University of California\, Los Angeles\nDirector’s Welcome\n\nKristoph
 er W. Kersey\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nOpening Remarks\n\n
 10:15 a.m.\nPanel 1: The Materiality of Alterity: Calligraphy\, Clay\, and
  the Built Environment\nModerator: Satoko Shimazaki\, University of Califo
 rnia\, Los Angeles\n\nAkiko Walley\, University of Oregon\n“Exotically E
 xtraordinary: Place of Goryeo-Dynasty Calligraphy in the Edo-period Kohits
 u Collecting"\n\n10:45 a.m.\nTimon Screech\, International Research Center
  for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)\, Kyoto\n“International Edo at the E
 picentre of Shogunal Prestige: Nikkō and Foreignness”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nRe
 bekah Clements\, ICREA &amp\; Autonomous University of Barcelona\n"Network
 s of Clay: The Circulation of Satsuma Pottery During the Edo Period”\n\n
 11:45 a.m.\nPanel Discussion\n\n12:15 p.m.\nLunch\nDisplay of Clark Librar
 y materials in the North Book Room\n\n1:45 p.m.\nPanel 2: Envisioning Alte
 rity: The Americas\, Europe\, and Southeast Asia in the Edo Imaginary\nMod
 erator: Rebecca Corbett\, University of Southern California\n\nAnton Schwe
 izer\, Kyushu University\n“Dance of the Foreigners: Revisiting Kanō Nai
 zen's Toyokuni Festival Screens”\n\n2:15 p.m.\nDrisana Misra\, Cornell U
 niversity\n“Nanban Visions of the Americas in Edo Japan”\n\n2:45 p.m.\
 nCoffee break\n\n3:00 p.m.\nCaitlin Karyadi\, University of Hong Kong\n“
 Divided Shores\, Fluid Passages: Visualizing the Chaya Family's 1612 Voyag
 e to Central Vietnam”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nPanel Discussion\n\n4:00 p.m.\nCoffe
 e break\n\n4:15 p.m.\nRoundtable Discussion (all speakers)\n\n5:00 p.m.\nR
 eception\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration
 \, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. In-person registration
  will close on Monday\, October 9 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the C
 lark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\n\nLoadin
 g…\n\n\n\nImage: Panoramic Map of the Tōkaidō Highway. Shōtei Kinsui\
 , drawn by Kuwagata (better known as Keisai). Published by Sanoya Ichigor
 ō\, Izumiya Hanbei\, and Izumoji Manjirō\, n.d. (likely 1810). Polychrom
 e xylography\, 52 x 24 inches. Richard C. Rudolph Collection of Japanese M
 aps\, Special Collections\, UCLA Library.
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