09Jul 2019 by Roman Pașca No Comments

Podcast interview: Dean Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Publics”

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Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future? In Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Routledge, 2018), Dean Anthony Brink, Associate Professor at the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, argues that certain forms of Japanese classical poetry (especially tanka and senryū) have remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan. Brink analyzes poems published in regular newspaper columns and various blogs, examining the way in which they reflect specific historical moments and exploring how they can be used for (and in) politics. Brink’s conclusion is that poetry has an ambivalent function, as it can serve…
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27May 2019 by Roman Pașca No Comments

CFP: “Japan: Pre-modern, Modern, and Contemporary”, 2-4 September, Bucharest

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The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Japanese Department) at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, with the support of its collaborators from the University of Hyogo, Kyoto University, and the University of Tokyo, is pleased to announce the organizing of the seventh international conference “Japan: Pre-modern, Modern, and Contemporary: A Return Trip from the East to the West. Learning in, about and from Japan”, on September 2-4, 2019 in Bucharest, Romania. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: * Literary studies * History and (inter)cultural studies * Language studies and linguistics * Anthropology * Mythology and folklore * Art * Philosophy and history of ideas Etc. A selection of papers will be published in the Annals of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of “Dimitrie…
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