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Asian Literature Seminar for Educators: Exploring Classical Japanese Literature

Lynne Miyake guides the group in a look at Heian literary society and its products.

Thursday, July 31, 2003
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/direct.asp
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The UCLA Asia Institute and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies are proud to sponsor our annual summer seminar to aid educators in bringing more of Asia into the K-12 curriculum. This year we're exploring the World of Asian Literature. To see the full program and a list of the works we're reading, please visit the seminar website.

9 am  - noon

The Poetics of Love, Longing, and Power: Early Classical Japanese Literature and Its Creators

Lynne Miyake
Asian Languages & Literature, Pomona College
 
1 - 4 pm
  
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Clayton Dube
Asia Institute, UCLA

Enrollment in this year's seminar is closed, however, the Asia Institute has a variety of other programs during the year that may be of interest. Please visit the Asia in the K-12 Curriculum section of our website or contact Clayton Dube.

Image: Sei Shonagon (ca. 1000), author of The Pillow Book, is depicted on the cover of Das Kopfkissenbuch der Hofdame Sei Shonagon. Sei and her work are among the subjects of Lynne Miyake's session.

Tel: 310 825-0007
asia@international.ucla.edu
international.ucla.edu/asia

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Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Institute, The UCLA Asia Institute and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the US Department of Education through its National Resource Center grants to the USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center and the UCB-UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.