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CGMS | Guest Lecture! The “Japanese Turn” in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860-2020 | Dr. Samuel Yamashita

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CGMS | Guest Lecture! The “Japanese Turn” in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860-2020 | Dr. Samuel Yamashita

Center for Global Migration Studies Wednesday, April 9, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Taliaferro Hall, 2110 Zoom

Over the last forty years, Japanese cuisine has shaped fine dining in the United States. This lecture will examine the “Japanese turn” in U.S. cuisine and explain how this contemporary culinary movement toward Japan is comparable to the Japanese influence on European and American art and architecture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting another important Japanese moment in American cultural history.

Add to Calendar 04/09/25 16:00:00 04/09/25 17:30:00 America/New_York CGMS | Guest Lecture! The “Japanese Turn” in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860-2020 | Dr. Samuel Yamashita

Over the last forty years, Japanese cuisine has shaped fine dining in the United States. This lecture will examine the “Japanese turn” in U.S. cuisine and explain how this contemporary culinary movement toward Japan is comparable to the Japanese influence on European and American art and architecture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting another important Japanese moment in American cultural history.

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