Past Events

2019 Nov 20

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Wed Nov 20 (All day) to Sat Nov 23 (All day)
Location:
Vancouver, Canada
2019 Jul 17

Imaging the Islanders of Ogasawara: Changing Dynamics of the Photographic Encounter

9:00am to 10:45am
Location:
Kamerlingh Onnes A0.51
Presentation for the panel, Mediascapes in Asia at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 11, Leiden, Netherlands.

When Tokyo-based commercial photographer Matsuzaki Shinji made the first photographs of the Ogasawara Islands during a Japanese colonial expedition in 1875, he also created the first photographs of the multicultural islanders residing there, and among the first sets of colonial photographs commissioned by the emerging modern Japanese Empire. Ogasawara, known as the Bonin Islands in Western languages, was first settled by a cosmopolitan group of people from...
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2019 Jan 11

Early Japanese Photography

7:00am
Location:
The Pacific Club, Honolulu, Hawaii
2019 Jan 09

From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

12:00pm
Location:
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Abstract: When is a photograph a souvenir? A work of art? Anthropological data? How can tourist photographs, produced to appeal to foreign visitors of “exotic” lands, become scientific data? Based on his studies of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s collection of early photographs of Japan at Harvard University, David Odo, author of The Journey of “A Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs, will discuss this complicated terrain. The collection—comprised of highly aesthetic photographs...
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2019 Jan 03

Twenty-Fifth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference

2:45pm
Location:
Honolulu, Hawaii
Paper: Place, Image, Identity: Nagasawa Shinichiro’s photographs of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands

Panel: To Seek, To See, To Find, To Create a Place

Abstract: When Tokyo-based commercial photographer Nagasawa Shinichiro first visited Japan’s Ogasawara Islands more than a decade ago on assignment for a travel magazine, he was struck by the subtropical archipelago’s natural beauty. But as he learned more about the islands, he became...
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2018 Sep 28
Art Study Center Seminar: Early Photographs of Japan
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Harvard Art Museums
[This event is at capacity.]

Art Study Center Seminar: Early Photographs of Japan

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2018 Jul 17

18th IAUES World Congress, Florianopolis, Brazil

(All day)
Location:
UFSC - CFH, bloco B, terreo, sala 303/ Block B, ground floor, Room 303
Paper: New Curatorial and Teaching Practice at the Harvard Art Museums

Panel: Contemporary artistic productions and intercultural dialogues

Abstract: Along with the recent dramatic renovation and expansion of the physical spaces of the Harvard Art Museums, curatorial and teaching practice has undergone a similarly dramatic rethinking. This paper will discuss the ways in which curating and teaching with art has been transformed at Harvard through an examination of two recent exhibitions: Everywhen: The Eternal...
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2018 Feb 01

Pain, Suffering, and Empathy in the Art Museum

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, Room 213
Pain, Suffering, and Empathy in the Art Museum
David Odo, Director of Student Programs and Research Curator of University Collections Initiatives, Harvard Art Museums

How might encounters with works of art in the museum be an opportunity to meaningfully engage with difficult issues surrounding pain and suffering? Such encounters are most often deployed within art museums as part of a program to teach or... Read more about Pain, Suffering, and Empathy in the Art Museum
2018 Jan 31

Photography・Modernity・Japan―写真・モダニティ・日本

10:00am to 5:00pm
Location:
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Photography・Modernity・Japan ―　写真・モダニティ・日本

The history of photography in Japan is coterminous with that of modernity. It was during the Meiji period that photography quickly developed into one of the most important media for artistic expression and documentation in Japan. Since the “visual turn” inspired theoretical debates in the 1990s, scholars in Japanese studies have become...
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2017 May 24

Museum Anthropology Futures

Wed May 24 (All day) to Sat May 27 (All day)
Location:
Montreal, Canada

David Odo

Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head and Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Past Events

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Location:

Imaging the Islanders of Ogasawara: Changing Dynamics of the Photographic Encounter

Location:

Early Japanese Photography

Location:

From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

Location:

Twenty-Fifth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference

Location:

Art Study Center Seminar: Early Photographs of Japan

Location:

[This event is at capacity.]

Art Study Center Seminar: Early Photographs of Japan

18th IAUES World Congress, Florianopolis, Brazil

Location:

Pain, Suffering, and Empathy in the Art Museum

Location:

Photography・Modernity・Japan―写真・モダニティ・日本

Location:

Photography・Modernity・Japan ―　写真・モダニティ・日本

Museum Anthropology Futures

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Upcoming Events

The Shape of the Collection: The case of ‘Art’ Photographs of Japan in an ‘Ethnographic’ Archive

July 2019