Saturday 3rd of February 2024 at 11am
Please note that the venue for our AGM has had a last minute change, fortunately it will be in the building next door!
Room LG10, 40 George Square
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unforeseen change.
The 37th AGM of The Japan Society of Scotland
Join us at our AGM to hear what we have been up to for the last year, vote on the election of council members, and network with like-minded individuals interested in Japan-Scotland cultural connections. Formal business includes a summary of our accomplishments in 2023, approval of our minutes from the previous AGM, approval of the annual report, an update on our online presense, and more. See the bottom of this post for a full agenda.
After the close of formal business, this year our guest speaker will be professor Neil Jackson who will giving a fascinating talk on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Japanese influences on his work. See below for a blurb on his talk.
There is no formal requirement to be a member of the society to join us, only an interest in Japan or the connections between Japan and Scotland. Additionally, while we would encourage you to sign-up through the Eventbrite links below, the limit for tickets through the Eventbrite service is 25. We have capacity for more than this, so if tickets are sold out then please get it touch with us through our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/JapanSocietyofScotland/?locale=en_GB
To sign up through eventbrite, please click one the links below:
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If you would prefer to only attend the talk by Professor Neil Jackson then please click here.
Found in Translation: Mackintosh, Muthesius and Japan
The theme of the talk is the presence of the Japanese influence in the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and, in particular, the Glasgow School of Art. This has often been observed but never satisfactorily explained. Rather than simply listing the evidence, this talk will investigate the relationship between him and Hermann Muthesius against the background of the time Muthesius spent working as an architect in Tokyo. Using the correspondence held in the Deutscher Werkbund Archiv, Berlin, as evidence of the close relationship between the two men and the others of Mackintosh’s close group, The Four, which suggests that it was Muthesius’s sensitivity to Japanese architecture which encouraged the direction of Mackintosh’s work in the late 1890s and early 1900s and in so doing, offers an explanation of the more idiosyncratic and unexplained features of the library at the Glasgow School of Art.
Neil Jackson is an architect and architectural historian and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. From 2009 to 2019 he was a Professorial Research Associate and a member of the Japan Research Centre at SOAS. He has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture and is currently working on a study of the architect Josiah Conder, the ‘father of modern Japanese architecture’, supported by a Fellowship from the Japan Foundation and the Ishibashi Foundation. His writings on Japan have included the book, Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (2019), and essays in Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2020), Setting the Scene: Perspectives on Twentieth Century Theatre Architecture (2015), The Journal of Architecture (April 2013), The Blitz and Its Legacy: From Destruction to Reconstruction (2013) and Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, 7 (2010). In 2017 he led the 20th-Century Society’s tour of Japan.
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