Join us for a lecture with Antoni Ucerler, S.J., curator for the exhibition, The Samurai & the Cross: Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650. Ucerler served as an advisor to Martin Scorsese during the production of his 2016 film, Silence (2016). His main research and teaching interests include topics in Japanese samurai history, the era of European maritime empires and expansion into Asia (15th-18th centuries), and the history of Christianity in Japan and China. He will present on the exhibit's displays of rare artifacts from the University of San Francisco Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History's collections.
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