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Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on “God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623”

November 2, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

tokugawa-ieyasu illustration from sometime between 1611-23

Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on “The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623.” The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at 4pm on November 2, 2016.

 

Co-sponsored by the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, History, Economics, History of Art and Architecture, Global Studies, the East Asia Center, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

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November 2, 2016
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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SSMS 2135
Social Sciences and Media Studies Building
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States
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