Lecture
Series
End Of Summer
Lecture Series
The End of Summer lecture series brings notable guests from diverse fields of study in the arts to Portland. The lecture series is one of the main components of the corresponding End of Summer residency program, for emerging Japanese artists and students.
The guest lecturers are invited to the program to encourage a perspective that is international and critically engaged. Each of the lecturers and their work are also directly investigating, or informed by Japanese sensibilities or history, crucially framing the western-set program in eastern points of view.
All lecture series events will be held at the Japan Institute and are open to the public.
Past Guest Lecturers
Reiko Tomii - Independent Art Historian, Co-Founder of PoNJA-GenKon
Yukie Kamiya - Director, Japan Society Gallery
Gabriel Ritter - Curator and Head of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Haeyun Park - Art Historian, Critic
Namiko Kunimoto - Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Japanese art, Ohio State University
Yoshitaka Mori - Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of the Arts
Yuriko Saito - Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design
James Jack - Artist
Justin Jesty - Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington