Researcher List YEN YI CHAN YEN YI CHAN (CHAN YEN YI) Please select the form format to download from below 「Education and research environment」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ①Outline for Vitae」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ②Education and research environment」format Profile Information AffiliationAssistant professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia UniversityResearcher number80975178J-GLOBAL ID202201017856772650researchmap Member IDR000043624 Research Interests 1 Art History, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Icons, Kofukuji, Architectural Reconstruction, Images of Shaka, Relic Worship, East Asian Buddhist Art Exchanges Research Areas 1 Humanities & social sciences / Art history / Research History 4 Sep, 2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University Feb, 2022 - Jul, 2022 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2020 Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Education 2 The Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas Department of History, National Chengchi University Committee Memberships 1 Jul, 2023 - Present Executive Committee Member, Asian Studies Conference Japan Awards 2 2013 Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Asian Art History, University of Kansas 2012 Fellowship for Study Abroad, Ministry of Education of Taiwan Papers 3 “Fashioning the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robes of the Bujōji Shaka Statue and Appropriation of Song Dynasty Chinese Art.” Yen-Yi Chan Artibus Asiae, 85(1) 35-80, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewed Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed inside the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 49(1) 45-88, 2022 Peer-reviewed 權力、共同體與信仰網絡:興福寺南圓堂不空羂索觀音像的複製 (Power, Communities, and the Network of Worship: The Replications of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon) 國立台灣大學美術史研究集刊, (49) 187-242, Sep, 2020 Peer-reviewed Misc. 1 “Report for the Talk “Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art.” E-Bulletin of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Apr, 2020 Invited Presentations 17 “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara.” Kanagawa University, Sep 24, 2025 Invited "從武則天到光明皇后與孝謙女皇:女主、佛教信仰與不空羂索觀音造像 From Empress Wu (624-705) to Empress Kōmyō (701-760) and Empress Kōken (718-770): Female Rulers, Buddhist Devotion, and Images of Amoghapāśa Avalokiteśvara).” Yen-Yi Chan The International Conference "Crossing: New Approaching to the Material Cultures of the Sui and Tang Empires, Oct 26, 2024 Invited Re-envisioning Shakyamuni: The Buddha’s Buddhist Robe in the Ishiyamadera Nirvana Painting Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 15, 2024 "Fabricating the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robe of the Bujōji Sculpture and Appropriation of Song Chinese Visual Culture" Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 17, 2023 “異國意象的挪用:宋風佛像與日本中世佛教" 東亞文化的多元論述與跨界對話讀書會, 國立成功大學, Nov, 2022 More Professional Memberships 2 Association for Asian Studies Japan Art History Forum Academic Activities 4 Discussant for the Book 玄奘三蔵:新たなる玄奘像をもとめて for the workshop "對論與方法:佛教的過去、現在與未來" held by Department of Buddhist Studies at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Others Apr 12, 2024 Discussant for the Paper “夢殿觀音:費諾羅沙之評價與鑑賞此像的多元視角 (Yumedono Kannon: Fenollosa’s Comment and the Diverse Ways of Appreciating This Image)” by Pei-Jung Wu, 2022 International Symposium on Art History & Visual Culture, National Central University. Others Oct, 2022 Organizer of the Workshop “Absence, Presence, and Materiality: Refiguring Japanese Religious Art and Culture,” Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc. Jul 8, 2022 - Jul 9, 2022 Organizer of the Panel “Power, Praxis, and People: Re-envisioning Political and Religious Realms in Premodern Japan,” European Association for Japanese Studies, Ghent, Belgium Planning, Management, etc. Aug, 2021
YEN YI CHAN (CHAN YEN YI) Please select the form format to download from below 「Education and research environment」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ①Outline for Vitae」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ②Education and research environment」format Profile Information AffiliationAssistant professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia UniversityResearcher number80975178J-GLOBAL ID202201017856772650researchmap Member IDR000043624 Research Interests 1 Art History, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Icons, Kofukuji, Architectural Reconstruction, Images of Shaka, Relic Worship, East Asian Buddhist Art Exchanges Research Areas 1 Humanities & social sciences / Art history / Research History 4 Sep, 2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University Feb, 2022 - Jul, 2022 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2020 Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Education 2 The Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas Department of History, National Chengchi University Committee Memberships 1 Jul, 2023 - Present Executive Committee Member, Asian Studies Conference Japan Awards 2 2013 Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Asian Art History, University of Kansas 2012 Fellowship for Study Abroad, Ministry of Education of Taiwan Papers 3 “Fashioning the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robes of the Bujōji Shaka Statue and Appropriation of Song Dynasty Chinese Art.” Yen-Yi Chan Artibus Asiae, 85(1) 35-80, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewed Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed inside the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 49(1) 45-88, 2022 Peer-reviewed 權力、共同體與信仰網絡:興福寺南圓堂不空羂索觀音像的複製 (Power, Communities, and the Network of Worship: The Replications of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon) 國立台灣大學美術史研究集刊, (49) 187-242, Sep, 2020 Peer-reviewed Misc. 1 “Report for the Talk “Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art.” E-Bulletin of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Apr, 2020 Invited Presentations 17 “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara.” Kanagawa University, Sep 24, 2025 Invited "從武則天到光明皇后與孝謙女皇:女主、佛教信仰與不空羂索觀音造像 From Empress Wu (624-705) to Empress Kōmyō (701-760) and Empress Kōken (718-770): Female Rulers, Buddhist Devotion, and Images of Amoghapāśa Avalokiteśvara).” Yen-Yi Chan The International Conference "Crossing: New Approaching to the Material Cultures of the Sui and Tang Empires, Oct 26, 2024 Invited Re-envisioning Shakyamuni: The Buddha’s Buddhist Robe in the Ishiyamadera Nirvana Painting Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 15, 2024 "Fabricating the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robe of the Bujōji Sculpture and Appropriation of Song Chinese Visual Culture" Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 17, 2023 “異國意象的挪用:宋風佛像與日本中世佛教" 東亞文化的多元論述與跨界對話讀書會, 國立成功大學, Nov, 2022 More Professional Memberships 2 Association for Asian Studies Japan Art History Forum Academic Activities 4 Discussant for the Book 玄奘三蔵:新たなる玄奘像をもとめて for the workshop "對論與方法:佛教的過去、現在與未來" held by Department of Buddhist Studies at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Others Apr 12, 2024 Discussant for the Paper “夢殿觀音:費諾羅沙之評價與鑑賞此像的多元視角 (Yumedono Kannon: Fenollosa’s Comment and the Diverse Ways of Appreciating This Image)” by Pei-Jung Wu, 2022 International Symposium on Art History & Visual Culture, National Central University. Others Oct, 2022 Organizer of the Workshop “Absence, Presence, and Materiality: Refiguring Japanese Religious Art and Culture,” Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc. Jul 8, 2022 - Jul 9, 2022 Organizer of the Panel “Power, Praxis, and People: Re-envisioning Political and Religious Realms in Premodern Japan,” European Association for Japanese Studies, Ghent, Belgium Planning, Management, etc. Aug, 2021