This three-day symposium is in conjunction with the Mead's exhibition "Reinventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination." It's free and open to the public; registration is not required.
Find more information at https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/resources_faculty/mellonseminar.
Speaker Schedule:
Artist Yamaguchi Akira on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Peter Duus from Stanford University on Friday, Dec. 7, at 9:30 a.m.
Nakatani Norihito from Waseda University on Friday, Dec. 7 at 11 a.m.
Wada Hirofumi from Tōyō University on Friday, Dec. 7, at 1:30 p.m.
Gennifer Weisenfeld from Duke University on Friday, Dec. 7, at 2:30 p.m.
Kaneko Ryūichi from Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography on Friday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m.
Jonathan Reynolds from Barnard College and Columbia University on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 9 a.m.
Theodore Bestor from Harvard University on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 10 a.m.