The workshop “Passages: Continuity and Change in Edo Art Works” brings together scholars from around the world, whose work contributed to new modes of interpretation, contextualization, and understanding of Japanese arts. The keynote speaker, Joshua Mostow of the University of British Columbia, is a leading scholar of Japanese classical poetry and its visual interpretations throughout history. Other panels also concentrate on the role of literary, religious, and scholarly texts as means for interpreting the changing iconography of paintings and illustrated books. These include scholars from leading institutions from Japan, USA, Austria, England, Russia, and the Netherlands. The workshop will be held in cooperation with the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Arts (Haifa), and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem).
For more information of Professor Mostow’s speech click here.
