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Invitation to a Summer Course in Sino-Japanese Studies at Columbia University, August 2006


Qualified graduate students, faculty, and library professionals are invited to participate in a three-week-long lecture course to be held at Columbia University, August 7-25, 2006, cosponsored by Wiebke Denecke (Columbia Society of Fellows/Barnard College) and David Lurie (Columbia University).  Under the theme "Japanese Appropriations of Chinese Culture, 800-1950: Philology, Literature, Thought," it will provide a survey of the role of the Chinese impact on cultural, literary and intellectual developments in Japan from the Heian Period until the Modern Era.

The course will be co-taught by three prominent kanbun scholars, Sato Michio (Professor, Keio University), Horikawa Takashi (Professor, Tsurumi University), and Sumiyoshi Tomohiko (Special Lecturer, Shido bunko Library, Keio University). Through a combination of formal lectures, informal presentations, and practical tutorials involving materials from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, the course will provide a firm grasp of the major kanbun genres in their historical development, the major anthologies and sources for each period, the most important reference works for traditional philology, and the sociohistorical conditions of the importation, reception, preservation, and circulation of kanbun materials, situated in comparison to contemporary developments in China. The course will be taught entirely in Japanese; additionally, familiarity with either kanbun or Literary Chinese is required. China scholars with a good command of Modern Japanese are especially encouraged to apply.

The course is made possible by support from Barnard College, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Small stipends to defray travel and lodging costs will be available to graduate students, and possibly to junior faculty, but participants are strongly encouraged to apply for additional funding from their own institutions.

Please send application materials (For students: CV, transcript, brief statement of purpose explaining previous work and current interest in the field. For faculty: CV, brief statement of purpose) to the address below by February 1 2006. Funding and space restrictions force us to limit the course to 20 participants.

ATTN: Sino-Japanese Studies
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
507 Kent Hall, MC 3920
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027

Further information about the course will be posted here as it becomes available; in the meantime, any inquiries about it should be directed to Wiebke Denecke or David Lurie.

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