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Gennifer Weisenfeld

Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Smith Warehouse 10, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Mondays 3:15-4:15  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Disaster and Visuality - Relations · July 2020 Broadcast Appearance Tokyo Biennale 2020/21 ,
Japanese Visual Culture - Meiji at 150 Podcast, Episode 62 · September 21, 2018 Broadcast Appearance University of British Columbia, Vancouver

In this episode, Dr. Weisenfeld depicts how Japanese avant-garde artists responded to the structures and institutions of modern art constructed during the Meiji Period, as well as their destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. We discuss artistic reactions to modernity, the visual culture of civil air defense in wartime Japan, ties between visual culture and the nation-state, and the graphic design of Japanese corporate advertising.

Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 - New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast · March 1, 2013 Interview
Elegance and Extravagance - The State of Things · December 11, 2012 Broadcast Appearance WUNC North Carolina Public Radio,

Service to the Profession


Arts Dialogue Committee, U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange · 2011 Committee Service
Japan Foundation American Advisory Committee · 2010 Committee Service

Papers Refereed

Council member : Northeast Asia Council Association for Asian Studies · 2008 - 2012 Committee Service

Professional Activities

Series Editor, Japanese Visual Culture series, Koninklijke Brill NV (Leiden, The Netherlands) · 2008 Editorial Activities

Professional Activities