Responsible for the partnership project for the mutual advancement of knowledge, operational development and scientific growth between the institutions of the UZH and the Museum Rietberg of the City of Zurich.

• Lecturer in the study of cultural imperialism and global coloniality, with a focus on East Asia, and on the art and religious cultures of Japan with international dimensions.
• Art and cultural history in East Asia, trans-regional connections between religious cultures in East Asia.
• Investigations into political semantic and cultural negotiations through visual media.
• Subaltern ownership of visual culture and emancipation strategies through visuality in religion.
• Art and tolerance in a context of global cultural tension.

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Practical Class with Regional Focus: Introduction into Korean art history

Research Projects Overview

Negotiating Paradigms: Construing the Nexus of Mission, Collection, and Imperialist Agenda University of Tübingen, Germany (2024, under embargo)

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