Events
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  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Islamic Art and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Exhibitions, Collections, and Reinventions

Date
2026/02/01(Sun) 13:30-17:30
Venue
Online/Seminar room 4, National Museum of Ethnology (10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita, Osaka 565-8511, Japan)
On-site/Online
Hybrid
Language
English

This workshop examines the historiography of Persian and Islamic art in relation to the global mobility of objects and people, exploring how Islamic art was exhibited, received, and transformed through cross-cultural encounters.

Registration

  • Pre-registration is required by 10:00 PM JST (1:00 PM GMT) on Friday, 30 January, 2026.
    The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants on the day before the workshop.
    For registration, please see here.

Programs

2026/02/01
 13:30 - 13:35IntroductionZahra Moharramipour(International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
 13:35 - 14:20Japanese Artists’ Reception of Islamic Art in the Meiji and Taisho PeriodsYumiko Kamada(Keio University)
 14:20 - 14:30Break
 14:30 - 15:15The Myth of Indian Blue Pottery: Colonial Reinvention of the Islamic Taste in Indian Industrial ArtsAki Toyoyama(Kindai University)
 15:15 - 15:25Break
 15:25 - 16:10Framing Persia: Iranian Self-Fashioning and Western Representation at Nineteenth-Century World’s FairsYuki Terada(Rikkyo University, Meiji Gakuin University)
 16:10 - 16:20Break
 16:20 - 17:05Islamic Art at the 1873 Vienna World’s FairMarkus Ritter(University of Vienna)
 17:05 - 17:30DiscussionKenji Kuroda(National Museum of Ethnology)
Yuriko Yamanaka(National Museum of Ethnology)

Contact

  • kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp