We are delighted to announce that next week the Center for Research on the Far East of Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS) will hold a 2 days symposium titled "Japanese Kites: At the Crossroads of Arts" at Galerie Colbert, INHA, Paris, France.

This event is organized as part of the "Japonisme 2018" program celebrating the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Japan, but also on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Pact of friendship and cooperation between the cities of Paris and Kyoto, in partnership with the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, and with the support of Sciencescope - Association of Francophone Students and Researchers in Japan.

Program of the 2 days

Thursday December 20, 2018

9:30 Welcome

9:45-10:00 Introduction by the organizers: Cecile Laly (CREOPS, Nichibunken), Jean-Sébastien Cluzel (CREOPS, Paris-Sorbonne université), Inaga Shigemi (Nichibunken)

Session 1 - Moderator: Cecile Laly

10:00-10:30 Claudia Marra (Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies), The Iconography of Nagasaki Hata Kites

10:30-11:00 Brigitte Koyama-Richard (Université Musashi), Le cerf-volant dans les estampes japonaises

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Paul Chapman, The making of the Japanese Kite

12:00-12:30 Shigemi Inaga, Les cerfs-volants dans l’art et la littérature

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Session 2 - Moderator: Jean-Sébastien Cluzel

14:00-14:30 Yasuko Miyazaki (Hiroshima Shudo University), Kite-flying as children’s play

14:30-15:00 Sylvie Brosseau (Université Waseda), Shirone : sur la terre comme au ciel et dans l'eau. Formes et paysages urbains avec cerfs-volants.

15:00-15:30 coffee break

15:30-16:00 Cecile Laly, Le musée de cerfs-volants et d’histoire de la ville de Shirone : projet public ou privé ?

16:00-17:00 Discussion with all the speakers

Friday December 21, 2018

Session 3 – Moderator: Cecile Laly

10:00-10:30 Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Japanese Kites on Mass-produced Images During the 20th Century: Stamps, Postcards, Trading Cards, Matchbox Labels etc. in Japan and in the West

10:30-11:00 Svitlana Shiells, The Influence of Japanese Kites on Marc Chagall

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 David M. Kahn (Blue Mountain Museum), The Iconography of the Japanese Kite: Continuity Versus Change Over Time

12:00-12:30 Scott Skinner (Drachen Foundation), World Artists Embrace the Japanese Kite

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Session 4 – Moderator: Inaga Shigemi

14:00-14:30 Charlotte Hubert (Université Paris 8), Le cerf-volant japonais et l’art contemporain : un récit oral

14:30-15:00 Stefano Turina, Pictures for the Sky: Japanese Kites and Contemporary Art at the End of the 20th Century

15:00-15:30 coffee break

15:30-16:00 Annie Claustres (Université Lyon 2), Objets volants et images en mouvement : la dématérialisation du cerf-volant ou le souffle du vent dans l’art du temps présent

16:00-17:00 Discussion with all the speakers

Free entry, no reservation needed.