“New Frontiers of Eurasian Comparisons: Practices, Opportunities, Dirty Truths” YIWSA Capstone Workshop, Thursday May 5 at 5:30 pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), room 104.
Thanks to generous support from our parent organization, the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World (Yisap) and additional support from the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University (CEAS) and the Whitney Humanities Center “Classics in Theory: History and Praxis” Working Group, Yiwsa is able to invite to campus Wiebke Denecke, professor of Chinese, Japanese, and Comparative Literature (affiliated with Classical Studies) at Boston University.
In perfect resonance with this year’s YISAP theme of “frontier and province” and with YIWSA’s mission of interdisciplinary comparison and dialogue, Prof. Denecke’s lecture for the capstone workshop will be entitled “New Frontiers of Eurasian Comparisons: Practices, Opportunities, Dirty Truths.”
Prof. Denecke’s research resituates the classical literary cultures of East Asia and rethinks their place and purpose in the schemata of world literature. Her most recent book, Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons (Oxford, 2014) watches two young literary cultures develop under the influence of older “reference cultures”: Japanese writers engage with and transform the Chinese tradition, and Romans navigate their ancient Greek literary heritage. In the process of comparison, the book raises new, incisive questions for the study of these two literary cultures individually while providing insights into the past, present, and future of world literature and comparative literature.
All are welcome, and snacks and refreshments will be provided!
