{"id":194,"date":"2013-12-10T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=194"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:30:46","slug":"event-colloquium-shunga-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2013\/12\/10\/event-colloquium-shunga-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Shunga &amp; Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium: Shunga &amp; Philosophy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday 19 December, 10am-5pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Free admission, limited seating<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books\u00a0with texts were produced, euphemistically called \u2018spring pictures\u2019 (shunga). Frequently tender,\u00a0funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly done within the popular school known as \u2018pictures of\u00a0the floating world\u2019 (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. This\u00a0colloquium aims to answer some key philosophical questions about the nature of shunga and\u00a0how its ethical and artistic value is best understood.<br \/>\n<em>Includes content of a sexually explicit nature. Parental guidance advised for under 16s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. David Davies (McGill University)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Emily Caddick (Cambridge University)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Simon Fokt (University of St Andrews)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Hans Maes (University of Kent)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Petra van Brabandt (St Lucas Antwerp)<\/li>\n<li>Louise Boyd (University of Glasgow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The colloquium is organised by the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent, the\u00a0British Museum, and SOAS, University of London. It is supported by the Kent Institute for\u00a0Advanced Studies in the Humanities<\/p>\n<p>A detailed programme is available on the website of the Aesthetics Research Centre:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/hpa\/aestheticsresearchgroup\/<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the organiser Hans Maes (H.Maes@kent.ac.uk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium: Shunga &amp; Philosophy Thursday 19 December, 10am-5pm The Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free admission, limited seating In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2013\/12\/10\/event-colloquium-shunga-philosophy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50209,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}