Speakers
- Paul Berry, Independent scholar and former professor at Kansai Gaidai University and University of Washington (Kyoto, Japan)
- Patricia Fister, Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Director of Research, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute/Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History (Tokyo, Japan)
- Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
- Alison J. Miller, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
- Amy Beth Stanley, Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
- Marcia A. Yonemoto, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
Schedule
9 am: Coffee and Welcome
9:20 am: Introductions
9:30-10 am: Patricia Fister, Shining Light on Art by Japanese Buddhist Nuns
10-10:30 am Melissa McCormick, Ōtagaki Rengetsu’s Buddhist Poetics: Gender and Materiality
10:30–10:40 am: Coffee break
10:45–11:15 am: Paul Berry, Narratives of Japanese Art History: Where are the Women?
11:15-11:45 am: Q&A
11:45-1:30 pm: Lunch break
1:30-2 pm: Marcia A. Yonemoto, Her Brush, Her Needle: Rethinking the Relationship Between Art and Artisanal Work by Women in Early Modern Japan
2–2:30 pm: Amy Beth Stanley, Reading an Archive of Everyday Life
2:30–2:40 pm: Coffee break
2:45–3:15 pm: Alison J. Miller, Finding Gender in Japanese Literati Painting
3:15-3:45 pm: Q&A
3:45-3:50 pm: Concluding remarks
4–5 pm: Walkthrough of the Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection exhibition
