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From ArtHist.net:

Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan Art
University of California, Los Angeles, 19 April 2024

Panoramic Map of the Tōkaidō Highway, Shōtei Kinsui, drawn by Kuwagata (better known as Keisai). Published by Sanoya Ichigorō, Izumiya Hanbei, and Izumoji Manjirō, n.d. (likely 1810). Polychrome xylography, 52 × 24 inches (Los Angeles: Richard C. Rudolph Collection of Japanese Maps, Special Collections, UCLA Library).

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On Friday, April 19, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA will host Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan Art, the third of three conferences at UCLA this year on the theme of Edo-period art. The conference is free and open to the public. If interested in attending, please do register, as space is limited in the Clark Library (also, note that the Clark is housed in a villa in West Adams, some ten miles east of the main UCLA campus in Westwood). Parking is free, and lunch is provided. To register, follow this link. While there will be no livestream or recording, an edited volume should follow.

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9.30  Coffee and Registration

10.00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Kristopher Kersey (UCLA)

10.15  Panel 1 | Ainu Material and Visual Cultures: History, Materiality, and Practice
Moderator: Julia H. Clark (UCLA)
• Christina M. Spiker (St. Olaf College), Carving Identity: Early Ainu Woodcarving, Cultural Revitalization, and the Patchwork of History
• Fuyubi Nakamura (The University of British Columbia), Art and Sinuye with Ainu Artist Mayunkiki
• Katsuya Hirano (UCLA), The Eye of Kelp: Ainu-Japanese Trade and the Formation of a Culinary Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

12.15  Lunch — Display of Clark Library materials in the North Book Room

1.15  Panel 2 | The Circulation and Dynamism of Ryūkyūan Textiles and Lacquerware
Moderator: Kristopher Kersey (UCLA)
• Setsuko Nitta (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts), The Dyeing in Ryūkyū: The Relationship with Overseas
• Monika Bincsik (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lacquer Art at the Crossroads: Ryūkyū Ware

2.45  Coffee Break

3.15  Panel 3 | Ryūkyūan Painting: Heritage, Afterlives, and Restorations
Moderator: Rika Hiro (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
• Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (University of East Anglia and University of Michigan), Tracing the Artistic Heritage: The Development of Ryūkyūan Painting from the Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century
• Heeyeun Kang (UCLA), Ryūkyū Royal Portraits: Restoring and Contextualizing Lost Ryūkyū Art

4.45  Break

5.00  Plenary Discussion (all speakers and moderators)

5.30  Reception