Sessions are free to the public.
The conference will bring together an international, interdisciplinary group of 12 scholars for presentations and discussions on the connections between technology, visuality and modern Japanese culture. Speakers will come from the United States, Canada and Japan. On Friday, April 25, sessions will be from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. in the Hall Center for the Humanities. On Saturday, April 26, sessions will be from 9 a.m. to noon in 211 Spencer Museum of Art. The conference is sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of the History of Art, the Department of History, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.