Professor Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University, will present a keynote address for the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art.” Bogel focuses on the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures. Her 2009 book, With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikky? Vision, examines early East Asian Esoteric icons and ideas. She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship. Beginning her career as a curator at the RISD Museum of Art, she then taught at the University of Oregon and for thirteen years at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was Associate Professor. In April of this year she became a professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, where she

teaches Japanese visual culture and thought. She is writing a book on Japanese prints, an essay on Saidaiji, and an annotated bibliography of Asian Buddhist material culture.This keynote address and the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”, will be held at the University of British Columbia, in conjunction with the “Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA” exhibition. Conference presentations are also open to the public. To account for numbers, please send an email to bcsprogram@gmail.com and notify us of your desire to attend.