2023/10/19 (THU)
Nov 10, 2023 Open Lecture commemorating the 100th Year anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake.“Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923” by Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University（USA）
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We will hold an open lecture commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake, the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University has invited Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.
Outline of Lecture
【Open Lecture commemorating the 100th Year anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake】
◆Speaker：Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University (USA)
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake, the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University has invited Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.
The Kantō earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations. Professor Weisenfeld will discuss how visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization. She will also discuss the triple disaster of 3.11 and its extensive media coverage, which are a vivid reminder not only of disaster's critical and catalytic role in history, but the dynamic agency of images in mediating our experiences of natural or man-made events to produce that history.
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Date: November 10th (Fri) 18:30－20:30
Hybrid(In Person and Virtual)
Room 8101, Building 8, Ikebukuro Campus, Rikkyo University, (the Zoom URL will be sent to you by email the day before the event)
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Design Studies and the Rikkyo Institute for Social Design Studies.
The lecture will be conducted in English and Japanese. (simultaneous translation provided in person only)
Capacity 500 (in-person)
For Rikkyo's students, faculty and staff members, alumni, and open to the public
Free, Registration required
◆Speaker：Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University (USA)
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake, the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University has invited Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.
The Kantō earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations. Professor Weisenfeld will discuss how visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization. She will also discuss the triple disaster of 3.11 and its extensive media coverage, which are a vivid reminder not only of disaster's critical and catalytic role in history, but the dynamic agency of images in mediating our experiences of natural or man-made events to produce that history.
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Date: November 10th (Fri) 18:30－20:30
Hybrid(In Person and Virtual)
Room 8101, Building 8, Ikebukuro Campus, Rikkyo University, (the Zoom URL will be sent to you by email the day before the event)
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Design Studies and the Rikkyo Institute for Social Design Studies.
The lecture will be conducted in English and Japanese. (simultaneous translation provided in person only)
Capacity 500 (in-person)
For Rikkyo's students, faculty and staff members, alumni, and open to the public
Free, Registration required
Profile
GENNIFER WEISENFELD, invited visiting scholar, Rikkyo University, is Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Japanese Art History. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her first book, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (University of California Press, 2002) addresses the relationship between high art and mass culture in the aesthetic politics of the avant-garde in 1920s Japan. Her second book, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (University of California Press, 2012, Japanese edition Seidosha, 2014) examines how visual culture has mediated the historical understanding of Japan’s worst national disaster of the twentieth century. Her third book, Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2023) explores the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. She has published extensively on the history of Japanese design, including a core essay for MIT’s award-winning website Visualizing Cultures on the Shiseido cosmetic company’s advertising design.
＊Moderator
Yukie OSA, Professor of the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University
＊Moderator
Yukie OSA, Professor of the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University
