Events

“Saigyō’s Waka Poems and Renzen’s Sinitic Poetry: Intersecting Engagements with Non-Elite People” by Ivo Smits

International Conference “Translation of Shakespeare as Cultural Exchange”

“From Minor Literature to World Literature: On the Problem of Untranslatability” by Dr. Seiji Lippit

“Annotated Illustrations of Herbs in “Gyōfūshū” and Confucianism During the Muromachi Period” by GUO XUENI

Event Report: “Japan, Mountains, and Culture: Rethinking Environmental Humanities” by Haruo Shirane

“Critical Approaches to “Japanese-Language” Literature: On the Writings of Kim Sŏkpŏm” by Dr. Christina Yi 

“Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games” by Dr. Ben Whaley

“Between Languages, Dissonant Beauty” Jeffrey Angles

“Confusion over Cathay: Attitudes to Sinitic Material in Medieval Japanese Poetry and Poetic Criticism from the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds” by Dr. Thomas McAuley

The “More-than-Human” and Ecocultural Perspectives on Premodern Japanese Literature: Current Approaches and Experiences of Teaching in Canada by Dr. Christina Laffin