Associate ProfessorRichard Bullen

Art made by WWII Japanese POWs at Featherston, held in the Featherston Heritage Museum

Journal article

Exhibition "Bringing China Home'

Launch of website of Rewi Alley Collection at Canterbury Museum

Journal article

Awarded Marsden Grant by Royal Society of New Zealand $434,000

Invitation to give a paper in the Japanese Aesthetics section of the American Philosophical Association conference (2011). I was unable to attend.

I was invited to give a floor talk at the 'Pleasure and Play in Edo Japan' exhibition, Canterbury Museum, 9 February, 2010

I was invited to give a seminar to the Department of History, University of Waikato, 25 March, 2010. My seminar was entitled 'Pleasure and Play: making sense of the Japanese art collection at the Canterbury Museum.'

I was invited by the Christchurch Art Gallery to present a 'The Press' public lecture on the results of my research on the Japanese art collection from the Canterbury Museum. 9 December 2009

I was invited to give a lecture to accompany the 'Monet and the Impressionists' exhibition, at Te Papa, Wellington, entitled 'Japanese Art, Impressionism, and the art of the West', 9 April 2009

In 2006 I was invited to present a paper at the conference ‘Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia’. 27 & 28 May, Universita degli Studi di Lecce, Lecce, Italy. The paper I presented, “Freedom and Restraint in the World of Tea”, has since been re-worked and is to be published as “Rules, Freedom from Anxiety, and Naturalness” in Concepts and categories of emotion in East Asia (ed. Giusi Tamburello), (Pub. Leo S Olschki, forthcoming, 2012)

I was invited to give a lecture in conjunction with the 'Splendors of Japan' exhibition at Te Papa, Wellington. My lecture was entitled 'Buddhist Painting', 13 April, 2006

I was invited to present a lecture as 'Speaker of the Month', Christchurch Art Gallery, 18 July, 2007. My lecture was entitled 'Childhood and Louise Henderson'.

I was invited by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to give a lecture in conjunction with the opening of the Dunedin Chinese Garden, 14 September, 2008. My lecture was entitled ''Nature and the Natural in Chinese Painting and Gardens'.

I was invited by the Christchurch China Friendship Society to give a presentation, 26 March, 2009. My presentation was entitled 'Nature and the Natural in Chinese Painting and Gardens'.