Calling any students interested in art history! Duke Professor and former Dean of the Humanities Gennifer Weisenfeld will host a workshop on art historical methods with a special media focus on postcards, using historical images of the Great Kanto Earthquake for hands-on active learning exercises. This workshop also illuminates the question of “the archive.” This event is sponsored by the HRC and the “China and Japan Post-1945” series.
Speaker: Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University
Gennifer Weisenfeld is the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Japanese Art History. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her work explores the impact of Japan’s modern sociopolitical transformations on artistic production and practice; the cultural formations of nation and empire building; Japanese modernism; the politics of the avant-garde; the visual culture of disaster; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to rd233@duke.edu.
