Public Lecture - Feb. 10 (Sunday) 2013, 1:00 - 4:30 Admission free, open to all, free parking Campus Map (CKS) @ UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Discovering Historical Parades and Processions from China, Korea, and Ryukyu during the Edo Period

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Speakers:
Dr. Hiroshi Kurushima, Professor, National Museum of Japanese History, Japan
Early Modern Japan through Parades
Dr. Manabu Yokoyama, Professor, Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan
Relations between Japan & Kingdom of the Ryukyus: Roles of Ryukyuan Envoys
Dr. Gregory Smits, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Ryukyu and its Geo-cultural Context
Dr. John Szostak, Associate Professor, UHM Art Department & Mr. Travis Seifman, PhD student, University of California Santa Barbara
Views of Ryukyu: Paintings and Prints in the Hamilton Library Collection

Symposium - Feb. 11 (Monday) 2013, 9:00 -4:30, Admission free, open to all @ UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Campus Map (CKS)

Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan: History, Culture, and Foreign Relations

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Dr. Hiroshi Kurushima, Professor, National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

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Interpreting Early Modern Japanese Society as ‘The Age of Parades’ Yields a New Image of Early Modern Society

Dr. Manabu Yokoyama, Professor, Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

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Two kinds of Ryukyuan Embassy Procession Scrolls from the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection

Mr. Travis Seifman, PhD student, University of California Santa Barbara

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Ryukyuan Embassy Processions: A 1710 Edo Nobori Scroll from the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection

Dr. Mark McNally, Associate Professor, UHM History Department

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Edo on the Move: Parades and Processions in Early Mordern Japan