Rosina Buckland
Asahi Shimbun Curator of the Japanese Collections at the British Museum and exhibition co-curator; contributed curatorial expertise and visual-history perspectives to the Samurai book and exhibition.
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Feb 2, 2026 • 42min
Censorship
Ai Weiwei, outspoken artist and activist confronting censorship and surveillance. Baroness Helena Kennedy, human-rights barrister defending press freedom and legal protection for journalists. Rosina Buckland, curator exploring samurai culture and its role in cultural control. They discuss censorship in authoritarian states and democracies, self-censorship and social media, historical cultural control, and threats to journalism and free expression.
Feb 7, 2026 • 1h 12min
Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samurai" (British Museum, 2025)
Oleg Benesch, a historian of samurai, and Rosina Buckland, British Museum curator of Japanese collections, discuss how samurai imagery evolved from medieval warriors to global pop culture icons. They explore museum curation, visual culture, myths versus reality, diplomacy and display, gendered roles, and controversies over representation in games and media.
