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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.
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.