MATTHEW STAVROS, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, The University of Sydney and Guest Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
Moderator:David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Porte Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
JOHN SZOSTAK, Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Moderator:Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University and Johnson-Kulukundis Family Director of the Arts, Radcliffe Institute
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Kang Seminar Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
The Harvard Art Museums will add about 300 works of Japanese art to its collections thanks to a gift from retired bio-organic chemistry professor and businessman Robert Feinberg ’61 and his wife Betsy
Robert and Betsy Feinberg discovered their passion for Japanese art on a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972—but in the gift shop, not the galleries