The Making of Japanese Art History in the 20th Century

9:00

Greetings from Organizers

Welcoming Speech

9:30

Opening Keynote

11:00

Panel 1: Canon Formation and Reception

Chair: Fengyu Wang, Heidelberg University

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  The Biased History of Meiji Painting—Networks Outside the Main Narrative

  Katharina Rode-Kaya, Heidelberg University

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  What Makes a Colour Print? Innovation-Centrism and Canon Formation in Ukiyo-e Studies

  Sabine S. Bradel, Waseda University

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  Competing Histories of Sōsaku Hanga: Onchi Kōshiro, Ono Tadashige, and Postwar Canon Formation

  Maria Puzyreva, University of Pennsylvania

12:30

Lunch break

14:00

Panel 2: Making of the Modern Classics

Chair: Ruri Kawanami, Free University of Berlin

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  History Lessons: Itō Chūta and the “Age of Public Architecture”

  Matthew Mullane, Radboud University

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  The Discourse Surrounding the Hōryūji Studies of the 1900s

  Kengo Matsui, Waseda University

15:30

Panel 3: Negotiating Wartime Narratives

Chair: Wei Sun, Heidelberg University, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

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  Displaying Japan in Wartime Vietnam: Transimperial Encounters at the Musée Khai-Dinh, 1942

  Diệu Ly Hoàng, University of Oxford

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  Picturing Defeat as History: Ihara Usaburō (1894–1976) and the Visual Construction of the Hong Kong Surrender, 1941

  Kary Chan Ka Wai, Kyushu University

17:00

Book Talk

18:30

Dinner at Ristorante Da Mario

10:00

Panel 4: “Arts” and Classification

Chair: Ruri Kawanami, Free University of Berlin

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  Peripheral Artforms and the Introduction of “Bijutsu”: Visual Media in the Formation of the Art Canon during the Meiji—taishō Period

  Arend Bucher, KU Leuven

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  Periodizing the Past: Yokoi Tokifuyu’s Engei-kō and the Birth of Japanese Garden History

  Oana Loredana Scorus, Hirao School of Management Konan University

11:30

Panel 5: Mediation and Education

Chair: Fengyu Wang, Heidelberg University

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  Tradition for Modern Markets: Redefining Japanese Art History through Zuanshū Publishing

  Naoko Adachi, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art

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  Neues Sehen experimented: Reconsidering Yamawaki Iwao’s Bauhaus Photographs

  Youri Hammache-Sigour, Centre Pompidou

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  Mediating Japan: Zoom, le magazine de l’image (1970-1991) and the French Reception of Contemporary Japanese Photography

  Louise Lartillot, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University

13:00

Lunch break

14:30

Panel 6: Transcultural Displays

Chair: Wei Sun, Heidelberg University, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

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  Artistic Agency and National Representation: The 1922 Exhibition of Japanese Art at the Grand Palais

  Roxanna Maas, Utrecht University

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  An Almost Forgotten Exhibition? Altjapanische Kunst at the Pergamonmuseum 1939

  Jennifer Höhne, Deutsche Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Marburg University

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  Exhibiting Nihonga in Postwar Germany: Nationalism and Cultural Diplomacy

  Nana Tazuke-Steiniger, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

16:30

Closing Keynote

17:30

Roundtable Discussion

• —Kawanami Ruri, Free University of Berlin
• —Wei Sun, Heidelberg University, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• —Fengyu Wang, Heidelberg University