Date/Time
Date(s) - 21 Jan 2016
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location
University of Pennsylvania Jaffe Hall
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In this talk Dr. Alessandro Bianchi will discuss an 18th-century Japanese book that used a tour of hell to satirize contemporary politics and was thus in violation of period publishing edicts on expression. Bianchi completed his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge in 2015, under the supervision of Professor Peter Kornicki, and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Freer/Sackler Museum where he is heading up the cataloging of some 900 titles from the Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books (pulverer.si.edu).
The talk is part of the Center for the Integrated Study of Japan new Third Thursday program, on January 21, 4:30-6:30 p.m., in the Jaffe History of Art Building, Rich Seminar Room 113.