Dr. Ai Hisano, Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, will give a talk titled “Creating Modern Sensibility: Aesthetic Capitalism in the United States and Japan, the 1870s–1930s.” The lecture explores how aesthetic capitalism emerged and how it altered people’s aesthetic experience in the United States and Japan from the 1870s to the 1940s.

This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Center and the Department of History.