Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: LEC Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Tokyo, 22 June 2011

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: LEC Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Tokyo, 22
June 2011


> H-ASIA
> May 24, 2011
>
> Lecture: Dr. Timon Screech on Edo Shunga Reconsidered, Sophia University,
> Tokyo, 22 June 2011
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Dr. Timon Screech on EDO SHUNGA RECONSIDERED
>
> Location: Japan
> Lecture Date: 2011-06-22 (in 29 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-20
> Announcement ID: 185356
>
> Dr. Timon Screech on
> EDO SHUNGA RECONSIDERED
>
> June 22 (Wed) 2011
> 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
> Room 921, 9F, Library Building, Sophia University
>
> Shunga has recently been the subject of a great deal of scholarly research
> in Japan and outside. It is now some dozen years since Dr. Screech''s book
> on the subject, _Sex and the Floating World: Japanese Erotic Imagery,
> 1700-1820_, first appeared. This is a good time to reflect on the subject
> of shunga, and also on the history of thinking about it, and sum up the
> achievements of the past decade.
>
> Dr. Timon Screech received a BA (Hons.) from Oxford and Ph.D from Harvard.
> He has taught at SOAS, University of London since 1991, and in 2006 was
> elected to a chair in the History of Art. He is concurrently Permanent
> Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo, and has authored several
> books on the visual culture of the Edo period. Sex and the Floating World
> is now available in a second expanded edition from Reaktion Books.
>
> Lecture in English / No registration necessary
>
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>
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>
>
> Institute of Comparative Culture Office:
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