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RETHINKING OBJECT AND PERFORMANCEIN JAPAN AND BEYOND

NAOKO FRANCES HIOKI (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture) The Jesuits and Japanese Folding Screens: Transcultural Gift-exchange and Its Implications on Japanese Art in the Early Seventeenth Century

R. KELLER KIMBROUGH (University of Colorado, Boulder) Spells and Secret Scrolls in the Martial Fiction of Late Medieval Japan

ASHTON LAZARUS (Kyushu University) Animate Objects: Kemari as Symbolic Pursuit in Heian Japan

BENG CHOO LIM (National University of Singapore) Traditional Japanese Theater in Contemporary Time—From the Perspective of Technology

RYOKO MATSUBA (The British Museum and SOAS University of London) Reading Images: Visual Conversation between Performances and Printed Images

HANNA MCGAUGHEY (University of Trier) Japan’s Richard Wagner? Authorship and Artistry in the Modern Reception of Zeami’s Treatises

JEFFREY NIEDERMAIER (Yale University) Wang Zhaojun (Ō Shōkun) Translated and Reflected in Foreign Objects: Mirror, Stage

PATRICK SCHWEMMER (Musashi University) The Medieval Japanese Life of St. Alexius of Edessa

AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP MARCH 2, 2019, 9:00–17:00

KYUSHU UNIVERSITY・ITO CAMPUS・EAST ZONE・E-B 103

To register contact alazarus@lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Ashton Lazarus, IMAP/IDOC in Japanese Humanities). This workshop is supported by a 2018–19 AY Challenge type 3, Progress 100 (Invitation program for top global researchers) RINK Research Hub for the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kyushu University Grant, The Many Shapes of Meaning: Object and Performance in Asia Across Time.