Reinventing Modernity: Franco-Scottish Encounters with Japan
Reinventing Modernity: Franco-Scottish Encounters with Japan
SMLC - Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019/2020
Date: Tuesday 17 September 2019
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Alliance française de Glasgow 3 Park Circus G3 6AX
Category: Conferences, Exhibitions, Films and theatre
Speaker: Professor Alan Spence, Dr Ramona Fotiade, Dr Saeko Yazaki, Dr Salazar-Ferrer, Dr Monica Kocot
Website: www.afglasgow.org.uk/2019/08/10/franco-scottish-encounters-with-japan/
As part of the celebrations in the Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019-20, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow is organising a conference, coupled with a photograph exhibition, a traditional dance performance and a film screening, which will highlight the work of some of the most prominent artists and writers from both Scotland and France who have travelled to Japan or have been influenced by the Japanese visual arts and literature and have sought to promote the links between European and Japanese cultural traditions. The invited speakers will address the historic links between the city of Glasgow and Japan in the work of Rennie Macintosh, as well as the more recent engagement with Japanese art and literature of Glasgow-born writers, Alan Spence and Kenneth White, alongside the evocative accounts of Japan in the work of French and Francophone travel writers such as Nicholas Bouvier.
Entry is free within the limit of available places. To register please go to : www.afglasgow.org.uk/2019/08/10/franco-scottish-encounters-with-japan/
For any questions, please contact Dr. Ramona Fotiade (French – SMLC): ramona.fotiade@glasgow.ac.uk