Noh and the Uncanny
Date/ time: Sunday, September 29, 2019. 12:30-16:00 (Opening at 12:00)
Venue: Main Exhibition Building 1F, Entrance Hall
Fee: Free/ No pre-registration required
Chair: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Lecture: Kenji Yoshida (Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology)
Lecture ＆ Performance: Manjiro Tatsumi (Noh actor)

Fantastic Creatures, Sacred Beasts, and UMAs: Why Do Humans Imagine Monsters?
Date/ time: Saturday, October 19, 2019 13:30-15:00 (Opening at 13:00)
Venue: Main Exhibition Building 2F, Seminar Room
Fee: Free/ No pre-registration required
Lecturer: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Wonderstruck
Date/ time: Saturday, November 9, 2019. 13:30-16:00 (Opening at 13:00)
Venue: Main Exhibition Building 2F, Seminar Rooms
Free/ No pre-registration required
Lecturer: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Creature Creator's Symposium: Human Imagination and Nature
Date/ time: Monday, September 23, 2019. 13:30-16:30 (Opening at 13:00)
Venue: Knowledge Theater, Grand Front Osaka North Building 4th F
Fee: Free/ Pre-registration required (capacity 360)
Chair: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Presenters: Daisuke Igarashi (Manga artist), Tomohiro Hasegawa (Game creator), Kiyonori Nishida (Director, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan)

Sounds of the Uncanny: Exhibiting the Invisible
Date/ time: Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 19:00-20:30 (Opening at 18:30) [tbc]
Venue: CAFE Lab (Grand Front Osaka North Building, Knowledge Capital 1st F)
Fee: 500 yen incl. one free drink/ pre-registration required (capacity 50, junior high school age or above)
Presenters: Kunihiro Tsuji (Special Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology), Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Tour of special exhibition “Regnum imaginarium: Realm of the Marvelous and Uncanny”
Date/ time: Sunday, October 10, 2019, 11:00-12:30 (reception from 10:30)
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology
Fee: Special exhibition ticket (group fee)/ Pre-registration required (capacity 30, junior high school age or above)
Lecturer: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Tour of the Special Exhibition "Regnum Imaginarium: Realm of the Marvelous and Uncanny"
Date/ time: Sunday, September 1, 2019, 14:30-15:15
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology
No pre-registration/ Special exhibition ticket required
Lecturer: Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Topics related to the Special Exhibition "Regnum Imaginarium: Realm of the Marvelous and Uncanny"
Date/ time: Sunday, October 6, 2019, 14:30-15:00
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology
No pre-registration/ Special exhibition ticket required
Lecturer: Ryoji Sasahara (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

The Fantastical Gods of India
Date/ time: Sunday, October 20, 2019, 14:30-15:00
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology, Main Exhibition Building (Navi-Space)
No pre-registration/ Special exhibition ticket required
Lecturer: Mizuho Matsuo (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Wonders of the “Old World” – Christian Missionaries and the Native Americans
Date/ time: Sunday, November 10, 2019, 14:30-15:00
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology
No pre-registration/ Special exhibition ticket required
Lecturer: Akira Saito (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

Monsters in Mediaeval European Mappa Mundi (World Map)
Date/time: Thursday, November 21, 2019 15:30-16:00
Place: 2nd floor, Special Exhibition Hall, National Museum of Ethnology
No pre-registration / Special exhibition ticket required
In Japanese
Lecturer: Natalia Petrovskaia (Utrecht University)

Noisy Monsters! Creating Sounds from Images, Images from Sounds

“Creating Sounds from Images”
Date/ time: Saturday, November 2, 2019, 13:30-16:30 (Opening at 13:00)

“Creating Images from Sounds”
Date/ time: Sunday (public holiday), November 3, 2019, 13:30-16:10 (Opening at 13:00)

Venue: National Museum of Ethnology, Special Exhibition Hall rest area (B1F), Special Exhibition, in front of the Special Exhibition Hall, front courtyard
Capacity: 24 people per day
Target group: 5th-6th grade elementary school students
Fee: Free/ Pre-registration required
Lecturers: Ryo Watanabe (percussionist), Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

NIHU Symposium "Boundaries of the ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’"
Date/ time: Saturday (public holiday), November 23, 2019, 13:00-16:30
Venue: Knowledge Capital Conference Room, Tower C C-01 (Grand Front Osaka North Building C8F)
Fee: Free/ Pre-registration required (capacity 200)
Speakers:
Jill Cook (Curator, British Museum)
Masatake Kurokawa (Professor, Taisei Gakuin University)
Kazuhiko Komatsu (Director-General, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Takatoshi Kiba (Project Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Inquiries: The Senri Foundation office
　　　　　　Email: sympo*senri-f.or.jp (replace * with @)

Cryptids!　Fabricating the Fantastic
Date/ time: Saturday, October 12, 2019, 13:30-14:40
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology, Seminar Room 5 (Main Building 2nd F)
Fee: Minpaku Associates = Free, General admission = 500 yen (Associate membership ID or Special Exhibition ticket required for participants on the guided tour)
Lecturers: Koichi Yumoto (Researcher of ghosts and mythical beasts), Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Inquiries: Minpaku Associates (The Senri Foundation)
　　　　　　Email: minpakutomo*senri-f.or.jp (replace * with @)

Mononoke Roadtrip: Touring Yokai Sites from Hiroshima to Shimane
Date: Sunday, October 13 – Monday (public holiday), October 14, 2019
Destination: Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture (1 night 2 days)
Participation: Pre-registration required (capacity 25)/ Additional fees apply
Lecturers: Chikaho Ueda (Miyoshi City Arts Advisor), Bon Koizumi (Director, Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum), Yuriko Yamanaka (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Inquiries: Minpaku Associates (The Senri Foundation)
　　　　　　Email: minpakutomo*senri-f.or.jp (replace * with @)

Boundaries of the ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’

Date & time: Sunday, November 24, 2019, 10:30-17:00
Venue: National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Conference Room 4
Access: 10~15 min. walk from Bampakukinenkoen station (Osaka monorail), Main building 2nd floor
Language:English