The Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the 2018 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. The workshop will meet from June 11th-15th. This year’s workshop will feature two tracks. Professor Ken’ichiro Aratake of Tohoku University’s Northeast Asia Center will instruct the intermediate group in the reading of manuscript materials from the Tokugawa and early Meiji period, while Dr. Nobuko Toyosawa (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, now Fellow at the Czech Republic’s Oriental Institute) will lead a three-day introductory workshop focusing on print materials. Participants in Dr. Toyosawa’s group will be prepared to join the intermediate group from day 4 of the workshop. The workshop will conclude with a symposium on Saturday, June 16th in which workshop participants present on their current research.

The workshop is open to faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, librarians, curators, and independent scholars who are interested in reading print and manuscript materials from the Tokugawa and early Meiji periods. Please note that the workshop will be conducted in Japanese and participants should have a working knowledge of classical grammar and some familiarity with hentaigana.

The workshop venue is in the John Hope Franklin Room 224, Social Sciences Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637.

Schedule

Sunday, June 10
6:30 am-9:00 pm     Welcome Party at Professor Burns’ residence

Monday-Friday, June 11-15
The workshop sessions will take place in the Social Science Research Building (1126 E. 59th St). Beginners will be in SS302. The advanced class will be in the John Hope Franklin Room on the 2nd floor.
9:30 am-12:30 pm     Workshop
12:30 pm-1:30 pm      Lunch
1:30 pm-4:00 pm      Workshop

Saturday, June 16

9:30 am-12:00 pm     Symposium
12:00 pm-1:00 pm     Lunch

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