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Tag Archives: visual culture
Book Announcement: Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Gas Mask Nation Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan Gennifer Weisenfeld A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, empire, history, Japanese culture, Japanese history, visual culture, war, WW2, WWII
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Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, book announcement, books, history, meiji, Meiji Japan, modern Japan, modernity, visual culture
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Fellowship: DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Graphic Culture Research Grant
DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion invites researchers to apply to the 2016 Graphic Culture Research Grant Program beginning May 1st. The grants are awarded to support research related to graphic design and graphic arts from diverse disciplines, regardless of humanities … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, DNP Foundation, graphic arts, graphic design, visual culture
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Chino Kaori Prize for Grad Student Essay on Japanese Art
The Japan Art History Forum (JAHF), a great online community / mailing list for art historians & scholars of visual culture of Japan, offers an annual prize for outstanding papers in Japanese art history or visual culture. I have copied … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, cfp, chino kaori prize, essay prize, grad student papers, jahf, visual culture
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Call for Papers: For a New Wave to Come: Post-1945 Japanese Art History Now
PoNJA-GenKon10th Anniversary Conference Japan Society, New York City September 12, 2014, Friday, afternoon workshop “Reports from the Field: On Archival Documents” co-organized with Japan Society and NYU’s East Asian Studies 15-20 minute presentations September 13, 2014, Saturday, afternoon symposium “New … Continue reading
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Tagged art, call for papers, conference, Japan society, media, New York, research, visual culture, workshop
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Job Opening: East Asian Visual Culture, rank open
Institution: Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts Location: Japan Position: Tenure Track Faculty, Position (Open Rank) in East Asian Visual Culture, Sophia University The Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, invites applications for an open-rank position in … Continue reading
Job Opening: Cinema Studies/Visual Culture (East Asian), Modern Japanese Literature or Cultural History
Institution: Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters Location: Japan Position: Associate Professor or Full Professor, Cinema Literature Culture The Graduate School of Letters of Nagoya University, Japan, invites applications for two faculty positions beginning in October 2013: one position in … Continue reading
Job Opening: East Asian Visual Culture, Lecturer (part-time), Smith College
Institution: Smith College, Program in East Asian Studies and Department of Art Location: Massachusetts, United States Position: Lecturer in East Asian Visual Culture The Program in East Asian Studies and Department of Art at Smith College invite applications … Continue reading
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Tagged art, east asia, East Asian Art, job opening, lecturer, Massachusetts, Smith College, visual culture
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Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20941 The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press Forthcoming July 2012 ISBN: 9780804777902 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, academic, art, art history, book announcement, books, Japan, photography, science, visual culture
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