with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Cultures

The Inaugural Carmen Blacker Lecture: Carmen Blacker and Japan
Professor Donald Keene, Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus, Columbia University

Thursday, 15th July 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Blackfriars’ Hall (Norwich)
Saint Andrews Hall Plain
Norwich NR3 1AU

and

Thursday 22nd July  6.00pm – 7.30pm
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

The Carmen Blacker Lecture honours the memory and scholarship of Carmen Blacker (1924–2009). Each year a senior scholar will lecture on a theme related to Japanese religion or folklore. The Lecture in Norwich will be given in conjunction with the Third Thursday Lecture Series.

Admission is  free and all are welcome. Booking is not essential but seats will be provided on a first come first serve basis. For information please contact the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Cultures on  Tel: 01603 624349, Fax: 01603 625011,  Email: sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org or visit www.sainsbury-institute.org.

The lectures are generously supported through a bequest from Carmen Blacker and executors of her estate.

Co-organised by:

Image (detail): Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), ‘Moon seen through autumn
leaves’, about 1832, colour woodblock. The British Museum, JA 1924,0327,0.21.