Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013
>From Private to Public: Portrait Photography and
Changing Social Mores in Late Meiji Japan
(http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2013-2014/1311
25_Fraser.pdf)

Karen M. Fraser
Assistant Professor,
Department of Art & Art History,　Santa Clara University

18:30-20:00,
November 25, 2013
Room 10-301, Sophia University
This illustrated talk by Karen M. Fraser, Assistant Professor of Art History at Santa Clara University and current Japan Foundation Research Fellow, considers changing social conventions concerning the circulation of images of women in early twentieth-century Japan. It traces a significant shift from private to public display of photographic portraits, linking these changes to the ways in which portraiture was disseminated in print. Examining the visual display of photos in both general interest and women’s periodicals, it focuses in particular on the publication of portraits of young women in the Jiji shinpō newspaper. Appearing over a span of six months in 1907-08 as part of Japan’s first nationwide beauty contest, this unprecedented event was pivotal in this shift.
Lecture in English, No registration necessary ________________________________________
Upcoming lectures:
Nov 15 - Intercultural Theatre and Acting in a Global
Age: an alternative view (lecture by Phillip Zarrilli)
http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2013-2014/13111
5_Zarrilli.pdf

Nov 19 - Hard-fisted piety: Christian militias in the Minahasa (lecture by Dr. Laurens Bakker)
http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2013-2014/13111
9_Bakker.pdf

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