About the Presenters:
Dr. Tomoki Takeda
Professor at the Graduate School of Law Political Science, Daito Bunka University
Dr. Takeda Tomoki teaches Japanese history and political science at the Daito Bunka University in Japan. His focus is on Japan’s international relations, and he has edited seven books, including ones on foreign relations and the history of Japan’s political parties.
Dr. Bradley Bailey
Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Curator of Asian Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The first associate curator of Asian art at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Bailey has written and lectured widely, with a specialization in the art of Japan, focusing on the Meiji period (1868–1912) and artistic relations between Japan and the West. Dr. Bailey has curated exhibitions on Japanese American and contemporary art at the Mead Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and Recession Art in New York. He organized two special exhibitions of Japanese art, Extended Remix: Contemporary Artists Meet the Japanese Print (2016), and Flash of Light, Fog of War: Prints of the Japanese Military 1894–1905 (2017), at the Ackland Art Museum. Dr. Bailey also led the groundbreaking reorganization and reinstallation of the Ackland Art Museum’s galleries of Asian art, which include Indian painting and sculpture, Chinese ceramics, Korean pottery, and Japanese metalwork, highlighted by the exhibition Color Across Asia (2016).
Dr. Bailey earned his bachelor, master, Ph.M., and Ph.D. in art history, as well as his M.B.A., with emphasis on nonprofit management and museums, from Yale University. His publications include essays in the exhibition catalogue for Flash of Light, Fog of War: Prints of the Japanese Military 1894–1905, along with essays on the work of Hokusai and on prints from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895.