I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others, and over the years I have presented numerous lectures on Japanese and Chinese art, culture, and appraising Asian art at a variety of institutions for general public, scholarly, and college student audiences. Below is a listing, by topic, of most of these lectures. If your institution is interested in having me come lecture, please contact me.
INSTITUTIONS WHERE I HAVE DELIVERED PUBLIC OR CLASSROOM GUEST LECTURES:
Appraisers Association of America (NY); Artist SEED Lecture Series (Lawrence, KS); Arizona State University; Asia Society, New York; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York City; Columbia University; The Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas; DePaul University, Chicago; Duke University; Emory University, Atlanta; Environmental Protection Agency, Kansas City, KS; Florida Gulf Coast University, Renaissance Academy in Naples, FL; German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo; Japan-America Society of Chicago; Japan Society, New York; Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS; The Kaneko, Omaha, NE; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis (sponsored jointly by the garden and the Asian Art Society of the Joint Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Missouri, St. Louis & Washington University); Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ohio State University; Ohio Wesleyan University; Saint Louis Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; University of California, Berkeley; University of Hawaii East-West Center; University of Illinois, Chicago; University of Kansas; University of Missouri, Kansas City; University of Pennsylvania; Willamette University, Salem, OR
ANNUAL SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES WHERE I HAVE PRESENTED PAPERS:
The American Academy of Religions (AAR), American Historical Association (AHA), ASIANetwork, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), College Art Association (panel organizer and chair only), Midwest Art History Society (MAHS).
LISTING OF LECTURES PRESENTED AT ABOVE VENUES
(arranged thematically) NOTE: I presented lectures below marked with an asterisk (*) at scholarly symposia
Art Appraising & Related Careers
- The Business of Art Appraising
- Art Appraising and Related Careers in Art History
Collecting and Connoisseurship of Chinese and Japanese Art
- Connoisseurship of Japanese Painting and Prints
- Chinese and Japanese Arts: Antique or Not, Authentic or Fake?
- *Connoisseurs of Chinese Art in Late Edo and Meiji Japan
- A Vexing Problem: The Long Tradition of Copies And Forgeries in Japanese And East Asian Art
General Lectures on Japanese Art and Culture
- The Enduring Appeal of Tsuda Noritake’s 1935 Handbook of Japanese Art
- Ma (An Interval in Time and Space): A Key Japanese Aesthetic Concept (lecture together with architect David Dunfield)
- Themes and Characteristics of Japanese Art
- On the Relationship of Culture and Aesthetics: The Exquisite Craftsmanship of Japanese Art
- The Japanese Way of Life in Art
- The Cultural Legacy of the Samurai
- *’Fans Floating in Waves,’ a Representative Design Motif in Japanese Visual Culture
- The Art World of Osaka: Patrons and Producers in a Consumer Society
- Business and Politics in the Art World of Modern Japan
- Isamu Noguchi and Japanese Art
Chinese Influences on Japanese Culture and Art Traditions
- The Chinese Presence in Tokugawa Japan
- Chinese Baskets, Japanese Tea
- *Appreciation of Karamono (Chinese things) in Late Edo Japan
- *Ōkubo Shibutsu, Vagabond Poet of Edo
- Chinese Chan Monks in Edo Period Japan: The Ōbaku Zen Sect and Its Artistic Legacy
Buddhist Art and Architecture (premodern to contemporary)
- Buddhist Manuscript Illumination in East Asia
- Buddhist Art and Architecture in Japan, 17th Century to the Present: An Overlooked Tradition
- Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist ‘Saints’ in Japan from 1700-Present
- Buddhism, Pop Culture, and Art in Japan, 18th century to the Present
- *The Diaspora of Kyoto’s Buddhist Sculptors in Edo Period Japan: To Osaka, Edo, and Beyond
- *Traces of Edo Period Buddhism in Present-day Tokyo
- *Buddhism’s Sacred Spaces in Contemporary Japan
- *Religious Devotion as Spectacle: Buddha-Buildings in Modern and Contemporary Japan
- *Buddhist-Inspired Spirituality by Three Contemporary Japanese Artists Born in the 1960s
- Buddhist-Inspired Art from Contemporary Japan: Intersections of Tradition and Imagination
Japanese Craft Traditions
- *Eri Sayoko and Nakamura Kokei: Transforming the Art of Ancient Japanese Buddhist Painting into a Modern Art-Craft
- Industrial Artisans and Studio Potters in the Japanese Porcelain Industry
- Recreating China in the Porcelain Industry of Late Edo Japan
- Japanese Folk Arts, a Reassessment