Murai Noriko

Adaptation, Appropriation, and the Afterlives of Japonisme

“Transnational Japanisms: Art, Craft, Design,” a Conference in Memory of Professor Toshio Watanabe (1945-2025), May 15, 2026, Sponsored by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, in working with SOAS, University of London, the University of Arts, London, the University of Zurich, the University of Stockholm, the Japan Foundation, and the Japan Art History Forum  Invited

Representations of Japanese Art in the Genealogical Paintings of Hisamatsu Tomoko

The international symposium “Expanding Perspectives: Nihonga in Contemporary Practice, History, and Beyond”, Apr 25, 2026, the Kress Foundation Department of Art History and held in conjunction with the exhibition Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani at the Spencer Museum of Art. The University of Kansas  Invited

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

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

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