David Odo

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
2017 May 08

Students at the Centre: Education at the Harvard Art Museums

3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Lund University

Capacity through Culture

– The Role of Culture in Education and Research

monday 8 may 2017 | skissernas museum | Lund university

Programme

13.30–13.40 Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz welcomes participants

Introduction by moderator Jan Wifstrand

13.40–14.20 Teaching with Objects: the Ashmolean and the...
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2016 Jul 05

Summer Institute of Museum Anthropology

Tue Jul 5 (All day) to Tue Jul 12 (All day)
Location:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2016 Mar 03

Colgate University Workshop

(All day)
Location:
Colgate University
2016 Feb 16

Lecture: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location:
University of Missouri–St. Louis
2016 Feb 03

College Art Association Conference

Wed Feb 3 (All day) to Sun Feb 7 (All day)
Location:
Washington, DC
2015 Nov 18

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Wed Nov 18 (All day) to Sun Nov 22 (All day)
Location:
Denver, CO
114th AAA Annual Meeting November 18-22, 2015
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2015 Sep 24

Lecture and Book Signing: Souvenir, Art, or Anthropology?

6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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’s collection of early photographs of Japan, David Odo, author of The Journey of “A Good...
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2015 Sep 10

Reception and Book Signing: The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography

4:15pm to 6:15pm
Location:
CGIS South, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Reception and Booksigning for

The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

with Author and Curator David Odo

This event is in conjunction with the exhibition From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs on view Monday-...
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David Odo

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

Past Events

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

Location:

Students at the Centre: Education at the Harvard Art Museums

Location:

Summer Institute of Museum Anthropology

Location:

Colgate University Workshop

Location:

Lecture: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

Location:

College Art Association Conference

Location:

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Location:

Lecture and Book Signing: Souvenir, Art, or Anthropology?

Location:

Reception and Book Signing: The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography

Location:

The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

Pages

January 2021