Upcoming

• “Reevaluating The Bunmei Kaika Cameraman: Utagawa Hiroshige III and his Artistic Practices,” 2024 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Seattle, March 14-17, 2024

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Selection of past talks

• “三代歌川広重の肉筆浮世絵画帖について: 初代・二代広重の作品との比較を中心に,” 29th Fall Conference of the International Ukiyo-e Society, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan (online), November 25, 2023 (in Japanese)

• “Tomii Masa’akira and Émile Guimet: A Collaborative Effort to Promote Japanese Art and Culture,” 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Ghent, Belgium, August 17-20, 2023.

• "フランス留学時代の富井政章―西洋と日本の美術の架け橋―," 74th General Meeting of JALHA (Japan Legal History Association 日本法制史学会), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. June 10-11, 2023.

• “The Humble Beginnings of “The Last (Genius) Ukiyo-e Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi & his Illustrated Books of the 1850s, ” 11th Forum for East Asian Art History, Vienna, Austria, May 19-20, 2023.

• “Ukiyo-e 101: Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Print Culture,” invited lecture, Karel de Grote University College, May 9, 2023.

• “La dualité du manga dans l’œuvre de Tsukioka Yoshitoshi,” invited lecture, University of Liège, March 17, 2023.

• “One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each Across Generations: The Hiroshige Studio and the Classical Anthology,” invited lecture for Culture in Perspective: South and East Asia, Ghent University, March 14, 2023.

• "The Allure of Japan: The Appreciation of Japanese Art in Belgium from the 1860s to the 1920s,” invited lecture for Guest lectures to accompany the exhibition "Japan's Book Donation to the University of Louvain", KU Leuven Libraries, Leuven, December 8, 2022.

• "De allure van Japan: Belgische kunstenaars en de Japanse prentkunst," invited lecture for Shin hanga: De nieuwe prenten van Japan, Davidsfonds, Brussels, December 3, 2022.

• “Hyakunin isshu in geïllustreerde boeken: Focus op Utagawa Hiroshige III,” Boekhistorisch Forum, KU Leuven, Leuven, November 25, 2022.

• “Hyakunin isshu and the Hiroshige studio: Utagawa Hiroshige’s take on the classical Japanese anthology,” Wissenswerkstatt / Werkstattgespräche, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin (online), November 3, 2022.

• “The duality of manga in the work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi,” Bande dessinée en Asie de l'Est / East Asian Comics, Lyon, September 16, 2022.

• “Japanese woodblock prints on commission: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e as exhibition art and diplomatic gifts,” 10th Forum for East Asian Art History, Zurich, June 17-18, 2022.

• “À la recherche d’un moyen d’éduquer la nation: Tanaka Fujimaro et l’imagerie populaire,” invited by Prof. Christian Galan for Éducation, Enfance-s et Société en Asie Orientale (EESAO), INALCO Paris, November 26, 2021.

• “More than the “ukiyo-e quartet”: A case study of Yoshitoshi’s Short Illustrated History of Great Japan,” EAJS 2021, Ghent University, Belgium (online), August 25-28, 2021.

• “Okura Magobei and National Industrial Exhibitions: Japanese woodblock prints as educational material,” 8th Forum East Asian Art History, Heidelberg, Germany, October 4-5, 2019.

• “To collect or not to collect: The Meiji period woodblock prints in the Royal Museums of Art and History (Belgium).” 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Leiden, the Netherlands, July 16-19, 2019.

• “The shokusan kogyo policy through woodblock prints: The Yushima Seido Exhibition of 1872 and the National Domestic Exhibition of 1877,” The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018 – The West in Japanese Imagination / Japan in Western Imagination, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 18-20, 2018.

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