Event

10:15 am Opening Remarks - Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 am Remarks on Early Modern Print Culture- Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley
10:45 am Presentations by students in Art History 515:
Seminar in Japanese Art: Utamaro and his Contemporaries
12:00 pm Print Viewing, Lea Library
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch break

PENN YEAR OF DISCOVERY, 2015 – 2016, Center for the Integrated Study of Japan Colloquium
Discovering the Early Modern through Tokugawa Japan

Co-sponsored by the Penn Global Engagement Fund

Free and open to the public, registration requested: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/japanese_prism.html

Saturday, March 19, 1:30 – 5pm, Kislak Center, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library

1:30 pm Introductory Remarks - Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
1:40 pm "The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Picturebooks" - Heather Blair, Indiana University
2:25 pm "Gender, Boundaries, and Belief: Domestic Religion at Japanese True Pure Land Temples" - Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College
3:10 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm "Religion, Politics, and Family: How the Soka Gakkai Home Shapes Komeito's Electioneering and Party Policy"- Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
4:15-5:00 pm Roundtable: Teaching Japanese Religious Culture - Featuring Heather Blair, Jessica Starling, and Levi McLaughlin. Moderated by Jolyon Thomas

Free and open to the public, registration requested: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/japanese_prism.html

Co-sponsored by PhilaNipponica, the US-Japan Foundation, the Saunders Fund, the Center for the Integrated Study of Japan, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of the History of Art