Japan
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Sample Lecture Topics
Sample Lecture Topics
- Prehistory and the beginnings of a unified state
- Shintoism and the introduction of Buddhism
- The Heian period, and refined court culture of the late first millenium
- The Tale of Genji, illustrative of the Heian period
- Art and technology of the Heian period, including painting, sculpture and statuary, architecture and lacquer
- Japan's medieval period, warlords and kingdoms, and the rise of a military state between the 12th and the 16th centuries
- The Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate
- The impact of Christianity
- Art and technology during the Edo period
- Japan and the 19th century, including its embrace of Western culture, values and technology
- Japan in the 20th century and today
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