Murai Noriko

Staging the Nation and Its Divided Genealogies in Contemporary Japanese Art

The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Jul 30, 2024

Painting Okakura Tenshin: Hisamatsu Tomoko’s Genealogical Imagination of Modern Japanese Art

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Mar 16, 2024

Modern Japanese Painting and the Transnational Diffusion of Pictorial Blurriness Around 1900

The Asian Studies Japan Conference, Jul 2, 2022

Re-Appropriating Culture: Japonisme in Contemporary Japan and the US

MSU Asian Studies Center Global Virtual Speakers Program, , sponsored by the MSU Japan Council, Asian Studies Center, Department of Art, Art History & Design, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, and Global Studies in the Arts & Humanities, Michigan State University, Apr 7, 2022  Invited

Japonisme Today: Exhibiting Cultures and Exhibition Cultures in Our Time

Japan Forum Lecture Series, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, co-sponsored by the East Asian Art Program at Harvard University, Harvard University, Feb 11, 2022  Invited

Japonisme/ Japonisumu/Nihonshugi: Cultural Representation as Mis-Correspondence

The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum “Japonisme as a Field of Study: Past, Present, and Possibilities”  Invited

Composing in Groups: Individual Expressions and Collective Output in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

The international symposium “Group Dynamics—The Blue Rider Collection and the Artists’ Collectives of the Modernist Period,” the Lenbachhaus, Munich  Invited

Points of Contact and Disconnect in Cross-Cultural Networks

the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Jul 16, 2019

Heisei Becomes History: The Relevance of the Imperial Reign Calendrical System in Twentieth-First-Century Japan

Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Mar 21, 2019, Association for Asian Studies

ある近代婦人の肖像ーJ. S. サージェント≪イザベラ・スチュワート・ガードナー像≫におけるジェンダーと観音表象

第8回畠山公開シンポジウム, Oct 6, 2018, ジャポニスム学会

'Periodization Is Like Luggage': Japanese Art History in Transcultural Perspective in the Early Twentieth Century

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, May 7, 2018, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies  Invited

Visions of Sound: Okakura Kakuzo, John La Farge, and the Transsensorial Imagination

Department of History of Art and Architecture & the Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University, Apr 12, 2018, Department of History of Art and Architecture & the Center for the Study of Asia  Invited

Current Encounters: Water Imagery in John La Farge and Okakura Kakuzo

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia, the University of Chicago, Mar 2, 2018, University of Chicago  Invited

Own Your Life/ Take Part in a Larger Society

Global Liberal Arts/Entrepreneurship Guest Speaker Series, Jan 8, 2018, Showa Boston Institute  Invited

Between the Museum and the Tearoom: Okakura Kakuzo's Views on Aesthetic Encounter

Nov 16, 2017, Department of Art History, University of Kansas  Invited

The Avant-Garde Object in the 1950s: Teshigahara Hiroshi and Thematic Ikebana

the 20th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Jul 3, 2016, Asian Studies Conference Japan

Things Seen and Unseen, or the Ambivalence of Japonisme

Henri Zerner: A Celebration of His Scholarship and Teaching at Havard, May 1, 2015, Harvard University  Invited

‘Tenshin’ and the Making of a National Hero in Translation: Towards an Analysis of Genealogy

The workshop “Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century,” organized by the Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit “Japanese Texts in Motion,” Sophia University, Mar 7, 2015  Invited

Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Beyond Japonisme

The symposium “Aspects of Japonisme---France, America, Ukiyoe, Literature, and the Museum,” co-organized by the Setagaya Art Museum and the Society or the Study of Japonisme. Setagaya Art Museum, Aug 2, 2014  Invited

Between Nationalism and Universalism: Okakura Kakuzō’s East Asian Art Histor

The SNU Institute of Humanities Center for Cultural Heritage Conference “Envisioning Art History in Asia,” Seoul National University, Jun 13, 2014  Invited

Culture as Translation: Okakura Kakuzō’s English Writings and the Question of the East as a Style

The workshop “Trajectories of ‘Japanese’ Texts in the Early Twentieth Century,” organized by the Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit “Japanese Texts in Motion,” Sophia University, Mar 8, 2014  Invited

Multiple Beginnings: Okakura Kakuzō and the Invention of Asian Art History

The international symposium “Is Asia One? Towards an Asian Art History,” The Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, Sep 14, 2013  Invited

Re-assessing the Multinational Legacies of Okakura Kakuzō

The Symposium Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Okakura Kakuzō “Okakura Tenshin: A Pioneer in Global Human Resource,” Yokohama National University, Jan 25, 2013  Invited

Critical Journalism as Intervention: Shaping an Avant-Garde Discourse for the Japanese Flower Arrangement in Ikebana geijutsu

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Apr 2, 2011

Chrysanthemum and the Scissors: Ikebana in Occupied Japan

The 14th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Jun 20, 2010

Asian Art: Phantom or Reality?

naugural Symposium of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies “Promoting Research & Debate on Asia,” Temple University Japan Campus, Jan 19, 2010  Invited

Contemporary Ikebana and the Potential of Art History at the Boundary of Art

The 10th Korean Association for History of Modern Art International Symposium “Methodologies of Art History in Transcultural Era: Centering on the Discussions between Art History and Visual Culture”, Oct 24, 2009  Invited

The ‘East’ as a Means of Self-Realization: American Women’s Support of Okakura Kakuzo

The International Symposium “Discovering Japonisme of the Anglophone World,” co-organized by the Society for the Study of Japonisme, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation at the University of the Arts London, and Bunka Women’s University, Jul 11, 2009  Invited

Okakura Kakuzo vs. Okakura Tenshin

“Okakura Kakuzo and Meiji Japan,” organized by the East Asian Art History Program of the Department of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Apr 5, 2009  Invited

Journey East

Conversations, Mar 26, 2009, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston  Invited

The Book of Tea Re-Examined: Japanism as a Mode of Self-Representation in Early Twentieth-Century America

The bi-monthly proceeding of the Image & Gender Research Group, Jun 4, 2008  Invited

Designing the Space of World Art History

The 8th Korean Association for History of Modern Art International Symposium “White Cube: Is It Still Working?”, Oct 27, 2007  Invited

Tourist and Collector: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Passion for Asia

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Sep 27, 2007  Invited

Re-constructing Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Asia and the Cultural Politics of Displaying the Past in the Present

The Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History “Gender and the Production of Knowledge, Aug 10, 2007

Okakura's Way of Tea: Representing Chancy in Early Twentieth-Century America

Washington College, Chestertown, MD, Mar 28, 2007  Invited

The Book of Tea Re-Examined: The Cultural Politics of Representing Japan in the Early 20th-Century

Temple University Japan Campus, Oct 20, 2006  Invited

Teshigahara Sōfū and the Cultural Politics of Modern Ikebana in the 1930s

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Mar 24, 2006

Okakura’s Way of Tea: Gender of Cultural Representation in The Book of Tea

The International Symposium “Critical Horizons: A Symposium on Japanese Art in Memory of Chino Kaori”, Mar 23, 2003

Okakura Kokuzo and the West: Aesthete, Poet, and Connoisseur

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jan 18, 2003  Invited

Mrs. Gardner’s Lost Sanctuary to the Buddha

The 9th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Aug 24, 2000

Young Female Viewership of Takehisa Yumeji in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

The 6th Annual International Conference for Graduate Students in Japanese Art History (JAWS), Mar, 1998

n Pursuit of Collective Identity: Urashima monogatari and the Surrealist Art Movement in Kyoto

The 1st Harvard Graduate Conference for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Mar, 1997

Traveling Objects: Female Consumer and Exotic Fantasy in Monet's La Japonaise

College Art Association 85th Annual Conference, Feb, 1997, College Art Association