
Photography by Milena Yankova and Max Markov
Assistant Professor TAKAYAMA Hanako of General and Cultural Studies, School of Science and Technology, participated in the Bulgarian–Japanese Academic Forum, The Extraordinary: Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy and Art, held at New Bulgarian University on March 19 and 20, 2026, where she delivered a lecture.
On the first day, during the Critical Workshop for Art Theory, she delivered a guest lecture titled “When Pictures Move: The Documentary Film The Story of the Minamata Panels and the Mobility of Painting.”
On the second day, at the symposium “Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy,” she gave a presentation titled “The Aorgic in Blanchot.”