Laura Hein, "Distant Travels as Methodology: Japan Studies and Visual Artist Tomiyama Taeko"

Laura Hein
The Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University

Moderator: David Howell
Acting Director, Program on US-Japan Relations; Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

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Additional Resources

1. "Imagination Without Borders" website
2. Rebecca Jennison and Laura Hein, “Against Forgetting: Three Generations of Artists in Japan in Dialogue about the Legacies of World War II,” The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 30 No 1, July 25, 2011.
3. Laura Hein, "Okinawa Studies 50 Years After Reversion: History, Culture, Diaspora, and Identity" in special issue Co-edited with Tristan Grunow,  Critical Asian Studies, 54.4, December 2022.
4. Laura Hein, “Reckoning with War in the Museum: Hijikata Teiichi at the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art,” Critical Asian Studies,  43.1, March 2011.