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Narrating the Previous Lives of the Buddha in 14th Century Tibetan Murals
A Talk by Sarah Richardson
Tuesday February 28
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
Abstract
U o fT Asian Institute Art and Visual Culture Events & Co-sponsored Events | October 19 - 22
University of Toronto
Asian Institute Events & Co-sponsored Event | October 18 - 22
Documenting China: Being a Professional Photographer in the Middle Kingdom
East Asia Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Ryan Pyle (Award winning documentary photographer)
Sponsored by Asian Institute
Register online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10746
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
FILM WEEKEND CONFERENCE KEYNOTE LECTURE | Cuisine, Commerce and Cultural Poetics: Night Markets in Taiwan
Friday, October 21, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Scott Simon (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa)
Sponsored by Asian Institute
Dr. Wen-Chien Cheng Appointed ROM’s Louise Hawley Stone Chair of East Asian Art
Dr. Wen-Chien Cheng Appointed ROM’s Louise Hawley Stone Chair of East Asian
Art
Janet Carding, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announced
today the appointment of Dr. Wen-Chien Cheng as the new Louise Hawley Stone
Chair of East Asian Art effective October 3, 2011. Dr. Cheng will be
responsible for developing a dynamic program of collection-based scholarship
through acquisitions, permanent and temporary exhibits; will participate in
public programs and public outreach; and will undertake an active program of
research leading to publication and presentation of work in peer-reviewed
scholarly outlets.
Dr. Cheng’s museum experience spans nearly a decade, primarily focused in a
research capacity with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Dr.
Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs
H.H. Levy Gallery, Level 1
Until March 2012
In the modern period, Indian visual forms have often combined past and
present techniques in new hybrid varieties. Indian painted photographs
exemplify this by combining established painting styles with the new
technology of photography. This exhibition brings together 60 works from
the ROM's collection that have been acquired in the last decade but never
before on display. They date from the 1860s, a few decades after the
invention of photography, to the 2000s, well after the introduction of
colour photography.
Indian painted photographs were made to commemorate, convey status, and mark
East Asian Library Lecture -- Chinese Calligraphy, on Monday, September 26 2011
As the fall semester starts, the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is re-launching our lecture series on Magnificent Chinese Civilization (MCC). We would like to cordially invite you and your friends to our next MCC lecture on Chinese Calligraphy, which is to take place at 2:30pm, Monday, September 26, 2011:
Speaker: Dr. Jason Kao (高耀星) with live demonstration by Mr. Paulo Zheng (石甫 )
Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu, Global Asian Studies, UofT Scarborough
2:30 p.m. Monday, September 26 2011
Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, 8th floor, Robarts Library
130 St. George Street, Toronto
Free Admission. Limited seats available.
RSVP to Lucy Gan by email (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone 416-978-1025.
Two Talks on the Arts of the Edo Era - Kimono and Horticulture (Oct 5th)
Talk I
5:00 P.M.
Prof. Kazuto Sawada
Women’s Kimonos of the Edo Era: Social Class Reflected in the Patterns
A Concert with Japanese Traditional Instruments TsuguKaji-KOTO + Akihito Obama + Makoto Yamamoto
October 4, 2011 (Tuesday) 8:00 P.M.
Jane Mallett Theatre in St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto, 27 Front St. E
Admission $26.79, including handling charges and tax
Tickets available by phone: 416.366.7723, Online: https://boxoffice.stl.com/public/
Koto players, Ai KAJIGANO and Tsugumi YAMAMOTO enjoy their duo concert careers internationally as “TsuguKaji-KOTO” as well as their individual performing activities. The repertoire of “TsuguKaji-KOTO” was built on a solid foundation based in the traditional classics of their 13-stringed instrument and has developed to include enriched contemporary compositions.
Talk by David Pepper on traditional uses of Washi paper at Japan Foundation
Talk by David Pepper
Give Me that Old-Time Washi
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (doors open at 6 pm)
Location: The Japan Foundation, Toronto
Address: 131 Bloor St. West, 2nd Floor of the Colonnade Building
Admission: Free
Reservation required: www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php or (416) 966-1600 x104
Washi Over Time: an exhibition curated by David Pepper
at The Japan Foundation, Toronto 2008
Presented as part of Living with Washi: Japanese Paper Inspiring Daily Life, a series of events organized by The Japanese Paper Place in June 2011.
http://www.japanesepaperplace.com/goings-on/events.htm
