Introduction

Authors

  • Nataša VAMPELJ SUHADOLNIK University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia
  • Helena MOTOH Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2025.13.1.7-11

Keywords:

East Asian objects, provenance research, object biography

Abstract

Recent decades have brought the topic of researching East Asian collections in Europe and the world to the forefront of research and academia. The colonial and postcolonial frameworks of collecting practices, the cultural and socio-political settings in which the collectors assembled their collections, as well as the history of displaying East Asian objects in museums and other institutions, were researched both in the political centres of those practices and on their peripheries. In a differently structured approach, the collections of objects themselves came into the focus of the research, including their materiality and their “biographies”, providing a novel perspective on the historiography of collections.

The Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana), Science and Research Centre Koper, Celje Regional Museum and the Mari­time Museum of Piran hosted an international symposium entitled Orphaned Objects: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Research of East Asian Objects at the Faculty of Arts on 18 September 2023. The symposium was organised as part of the project Orphaned Objects: Examining East Asian Objects Outside Organised Collecting Practices in Slovenia (J6-3133, 2021–2025), funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency. This volume includes most of the papers presented during the symposium.

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Published

15. 01. 2025

How to Cite

Vampelj Suhadolnik, Nataša, and Helena Motoh. 2025. “Introduction”. Asian Studies 13 (1): 7-11. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2025.13.1.7-11.

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