For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by Apr. 29 at 4:00 pm for campus access.
Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event.
Speaker: Angus Lockyer, independent scholar
Moderator: Paul Kreitman, Associate Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
On April 13, Osaka opens its third and Japan's sixth international exhibition, or expo. This talk will draw on a new book to sketch how it emerges from more than a century and a half of exhibitionism, which has included over 1,000 expos in Japan. This history offers a useful, corrective lens on our standard accounts of both spectacle and modern Japanese development.
Speaker's Bio: Angus Lockyer has taught Japanese, East Asian, and global history in North Carolina and London. Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development was published by Cambridge University Press earlier this year. Japan: A History in Objects, based on the collection of the British Museum, will come out in 2026. He currently lives in Rhode Island and teaches at RISD.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Registration:
- To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.
- To attend this event online, please register HERE.
