{"id":23938,"date":"2026-02-06T17:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/?p=23938"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:15:31","slug":"sils-faculty-seminar-assessing-japans-taiwan-policy-systemic-clarity-political-survival-and-bureaucratic-prudence-3-2-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/news\/2026\/02\/06\/23938\/","title":{"rendered":"[SILS Faculty Seminar] Approaches to the Study of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u30fbLecturer: Professor PINNINGTON, Adrian J.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fbLecturer Info: <a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100000276_en.html\">https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100000276_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u30fbTitle: Approaches to the Study of Literature<\/p>\n<p>\u30fbDay and Time:\u00a0 February 5, 2026 6:30pm-<\/p>\n<p>\u30fbAbstract:<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, I will reflect on my academic career, discussing my education and my subsequent research and teaching. My focus will be on the nature of the study of literature, the enormous changes in approaches to this study around the time I attended university, my thoughts on those changes, and my own subsequent approach to carrying out research in English, Japanese and Comparative Literature.<\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-ogsb=\"white\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-610x458.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-610x458.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-940x705.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-360x270.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-720x540.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30fbLecturer: Professor PINNINGTON, Adrian J. \u30fbLecturer Info: https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100000276_en.html \u30fbTit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[82,115,176,94,63,26,177,110,28],"class_list":["post-23938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news","tag-events-en","tag-faculty-report-en","tag-facultyseminar-en","tag-general-en","tag-outreach","tag-general","tag-facultyseminar","tag-faculty-report","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23941,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions\/23941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}