Past Symposium

The in-person KIMONO: Fashioning Identities international symposium was canceled due to COVID-19.
Instead, video presentations by the keynote speaker and five panelists are being presented online with Japanese and English subtitles for Japanese and international audiences.

＊International Symposium videos tentatively scheduled to remain online until March 31, 2023.

Moderator　Melissa M. Rinne, Specialist, Kyoto National Museum

■PROGRAM

	Keynote speech　Kimono: Expressions of Tradition and Ingenuity Kirihata Ken, Curator Emeritus, Kyoto National Museum
	Presentation 1　Reflections on the Exhibition Kyoto Style: Trends in 16th-19th Century Kimono, Twenty Years Later Kawakami Shigeki, Professor, School and Graduate School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University
	Presentation 2　Kimono: Bridging Fashion and Decorative Arts Oyama Yuzuruha, Curator of Japanese and Asian Textiles, Tokyo National Museum
	Presentation 3　Kosode to Kimono: Highlights of two exhibitions organized by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sharon S. Takeda, Senior Curator and Department Head of Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
	Presentation 4　Exhibiting Kimono at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Presentation 5　Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk Anna Jackson, Keeper, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum

▼Download the SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (PDF) with presentation abstracts and speaker profiles

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The symposium program was produced before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some elements of the program may have changed. Thank you for your understanding.