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SUMMARY:Luchbox Lecture: The Silk Road in Post-WWII Japanese Religious Ima
 gery: Hirayama Ikuo’s Art and Activism and the Yakushiji Temple
DTSTART:20190704T101500Z
DTEND:20190704T114500Z
DTSTAMP:20260604T171040Z
UID:luchbox-lecture-paride-stortini-6273@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox lecture in englischer Sprache mit Paride Stortini (Ch
 icago)\n\nThe concept of the Silk Road suggests a chronotope of cultural c
 ontact\, flows of ideas and religions\, trade and economic interests at th
 e interstices of empires\, from the ancient Roman and Chinese\, to the mod
 ern “Great Game” between Russia and the British empire.\n\nIn post-WWI
 I Japan\, the idea of the Silk Road was associated in the media\, art\, an
 d literature with freedom of travel\, contact with exotic cultures\, and s
 piritual encounters. The image of Japan as the end point of the route and 
 the repository of the rich entanglement of cultures that flowed through th
 e Eurasian continent made it possible to conceive a new role for the count
 ry after the war: Japan as a model of cultural heritage preservation and a
  promoter of peace and international collaboration. Religion and spiritual
 ity play an essential role in such image\, especially in the case of Buddh
 ism\, whose spread from India to East Asia followed the maritime and land 
 routes of the Silk Road. In this lecture\, the lecture will particularly a
 nalyze how such images of the Silk Road and of Buddhism intersected in the
  art and cultural heritage activism of Hirayama Ikuo\, one of the major po
 st-war nihonga painters in Japan and a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear b
 ombing\, and how they became part of religious practice and imagery at the
  Yakushiji temple\, in Nara. The lecture will take into consideration mate
 rial and economic aspects of this imaginaire\, and what is left unsaid in 
 the discourse around it\, such as Buddhist involvement in Japanese wartime
  militarism.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/luchbox-lecture-paride-sto
 rtini/
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