Samuel Yamashita: The “Japanese Turn” in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860-2020

Please join CGMS in welcoming Dr. Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, Pamona College – and learn more about the impacts and spaces of Japanese food in the United States! 

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.

When: Wednesday, April 9th
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Where: University of Maryland, College Park
Taliaferro Hall 2110 (The Berlin Room) or over Zoom. 

Please contact globalmigration[at]umd.edu to RSVP or to request the Zoom link. 

More information at https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/cgms/events.