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Waka Workshop

Waka Workshop organized by Torquil Duthie, UCLA ALC.

Saturday, March 13, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095

To register, please email duthie@humnet.ucla.edu, with your name, affiliation, contact information, and days you plan on attending.

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:10 Introductory remarks

9:10-9:30 Presentation V: Saeko Shibayama, Columbia University. “Conservation and Preservation: A 12th-Century Prince's Monastic Library and the Quest for Imperial Identity.”
9:30-9:55 Discussion

10:20-10:40 Presentation VI: Christina Olinyk, UMass, Amherst. “The Poems of the Gods of Heaven and Earth in the Senzaishū.”
10:40-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-11:35 Presentation VII: Lewis Cook, Queens College. “Refractions of Imperial Power: Authority and Taboo in Reading the Kokinshū.”
11:35-12:00 Discussion

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:20 Introduction to the Fūgashū (1346) prefaces (Stefania Burk, University of British Columbia) 13:20-14:20 Close reading and discussion of Fūgashū prefaces
14:20-15:00 General Discussion and Closing Remarks

Download File: Fifth Waka Workshop.doc