Professor

INAGA Shigemi

INAGA Shigemi

Current Research
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Education:

1979
B.A., University of Tokyo
1981
M.A., University of Tokyo
1988
Docteur ès Lettres de l'universite Paris VII (Nouveau Régime)

Professional Experience:

2004 - present
Professor,International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1997 - 2004
Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1990 - 1997
Associate Professor, Mie University
1988 - 1990
Associate Professor, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo

Specialized Fields:

Comparative literature and culture; Global Hegemony and Local Resistances

Current Research Themes:

Formation process of modernism in art; Japonism and orientalism

Keywords for Research:

Modernism, Japonism, orientalism, cross-cultural communication

Major publications:

Books

2011
Artistic Vagabondage and New Utopian Projects: Transnational Poïetic Experience in East-Asian Modernity (1905-1960) ,(ed.) International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2007
Traditional Japanese Arts snd Crafts in the 21st Century -Reconsidering the Future from an International Perspective (ed with Patricia Fister), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
2001
Crossing Cultural Borders: Toward an Ethics of Intercultural Communication -Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology- (ed. with Kenneth L. Richard), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
1999
The Orient of the Painting: Orientalism to Japonisme, The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese with English Summary).
1997
Le Crépuscule de la peinture : la lutte posthume d'Édouard Manet, Nagoya : The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese with French Summary)

Articles

2009
“The Interaction of Bengali and Japanese Artistic Milieus in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1901–1945): Rabindranath Tagore, Arai Kanpō and Nandalal Bose”, Japan Review 21, International Research for Japanese Studies, pp.149-181.

Awards

2001
Watsuji Tetsuro Culture Award
1998
Special Award, Shibusawa-Claudel Prize
1998
Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities
1998
Ringa Art Incentive Award
1980
Japonaiserie Study Society Award

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