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SUMMARY:Girl Statue of One’s Own
DESCRIPTION:Art History Public Seminar \nGirl Statue of One’s Own: On Customizing a Public Memorial for “Comfort Women”\nDate: 10 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6pm-7pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nFormat: in-person only\, first come first served\, walk-ins welcome \nSpeaker: SaeHim Park (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies\, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies\, CUHK) \nThe Statue of Peace (2011)\, commonly known as the Girl Statue\, is a public memorial dedicated to “comfort women\,” an infamous euphemism referring to gender-based violence under the Japanese Empire from c.1931 to 1945. Drawing from an ongoing book manuscript\, Girl Statue Rush: On Imaging Comfort Women\, this talk examines how the statue’s circulation across scale\, form\, and media reshapes practices of remembrance in the historical present. \nSaeHim Park is an art historian and Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She works on contemporary feminist art and visual culture; memory and trauma; and the environmental humanities across the Asia-Pacific. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Mortality\, Art Inquiries\, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities\, Capacious\, and Feminist Formations. She received her PhD in Art\, Art History and Visual Studies from Duke University\, and previously taught as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana. \nImage: 작은 소녀상/Peace Statue/平和少女像\, War & Women’s Human Rights Museum\, Seoul.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/girl-statue-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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SUMMARY:What Was the Floating World in Japanese Art
DESCRIPTION:What Was the Floating World in Japanese Art\nDate: 24 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:15pm-7:30pm\nVenue: MWT3\, G/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Main Campus\, The University of Hong Kong (directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE (required) \nThe Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) was established to bring peace after almost a century of civil war. Discipline and order were paramount objectives. Yet the shogunate was fully aware that places of escape and alterity were needed\, that is\, locations of urban delight. These came to be known as the Floating World (ukiyoe). They were sites of a wealth of popular cultural and artistic forms. \nGuest speaker: Prof. Timon Screech  (Chair\, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies\, Kyoto) \nTimon Screech taught the history of Japanese art at SOAS\, University of London\, for 30 years\, before moving to a chair at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto\, in 2021. He has also been guest professor at numerous institutions in the EU\, Japan and USA.\nScreech is the author of some dozen books and many articles on the visual culture of the Japan’s early-modern Edo period. His PhD was published as The Lens Within the Heart and remains in print in a second\, paperback edition. Perhaps best-known is his Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan\, 1700-1820\, which is also available in Chinese\, Japanese and Polish translations. His field-defining study\, Obtaining Images: Art\, Production and Display in Edo Japan was published in 2012.\nIn 2020 he published two further books\, The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God\, Art and Money in the English Quest for Japan and Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo (also available in Chinese). He has just completed a major monograph which will appear in 2026\, Shogun Avatar: The Worship of Tokugawa in Early-Modern Japan\, and concurrently a book on early European contacts with the Kingdom of Lūchū (J: Ryūkyū)\, modern Okinawa. He is now at work on the history of the Rokuhara district in Kyoto.\nScreech is a Freeman of the City of London\, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Art. In 2022 he was awarded both the Yamagata Bantō Prize\, and the Fukuoka Culture Prize\, and in 2024 received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation. \nThis is a public event co-organized by Academy of Visual Arts\, School of Creative Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University through Hong Kong Baptist University\, Research Committee\, International Activities Programme 2025/26\, in collaboration with The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken).\nRegister for other lectures of the same series:
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/what-was-the-floating-world-in-japanese-art/
LOCATION:MWT3\, G/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Main Campus
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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