Feb. 18, 2021. Public Talk “Basketry and Plant Use in Prehistoric Japan.”　

日本語の詳細はこちら。

Finally, it’s official! Join my public talk on February 18th, 2021 that will be held online.

I’m giving a talk on Japanese basketry, in conjunction with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and archaeobotanical data, that provides an excellent case study for the examination of local histories and landscapes. That will be part of my dissertation.

This talk is part of the exhibition and at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibition, Cloth that Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space, was on display from Feb until March 15, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic and then went online shortly thereafter.

This event is co-sponsored by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley. We are planning to make this event more inclusive in terms of language, so I will provide Japanese/ English summaries along with the event. We can also take questions and comments in both Japanese and English.

For further information and registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basketry-and-plant-use-in-prehistoric-japan-tickets-138304220647

One thing to note: the Hearst Museum has a variety of basketry collections, including Japanese rural baskets collected by Dai Williams and Karin Nelson. See the online collection portal page: https://portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=text&q=Dai+Williams+and+Karin+Nelson