Symposium Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Verse

The Global Japanese Studies Model Unit is pleased to invite you to the international symposium titled “Symposium Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Verse”.
It is a two-day event to explore the connections, similarities, and differences among verse from various cultures. Special focus will be given to Early Modern English and Japanese verse as well as to sonnets.
The symposium commemorates the publication of Robert Stagg’s Shakespeare’s Blank Verse: An Alternative History (Oxford, 2022) and is part of the Birmingham/Waseda Research Collaboration.

Event Details

16 December 2023 (Saturday)　

15:30-17:00　PANEL: TRANSLATING SHAKESPEARE’S VERSE
Robert Stagg / Daniel Gallimore / Jessica Chiba

17 December 2023 (Sunday)

9:30-11:00　ROUNDTABLE: EARLY MODERN POETRY IN BRITAIN AND JAPAN
Jessica Chiba/ Yoshikaze Kawakami/ Kristopher Reeves / Gaye Rowley / Robert Stagg

13:00-14:00　LECTURE: SHAKESPEARE’S ARABIC SONNETS
Robert Stagg

14:15-15:45　ROUNDTABLE: SONNETS AND THE CROSS-CULTURAL
Jessica Chiba/ Daniel Gallimore / Adrian Pinnington / Robert Stagg / Rieko Suzuki

Venue: Room 106, Building 8, Waseda University

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PRIOR REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED

Please note that last minute changes may be made to the program.
Register using the link below to be notified of changes.

Symposium: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Verse (google.com)

Sponsored by THE TOP GLOBAL UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, WASEDA UNIVERSITY
With the help of THE SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

* Please refer to the flyer below for the details.