The Department of History and the Project for Premodern Japan Studies at the University of Southern California announce the 2012 Heian Kambun Workshop

July 16 – August 10, 2012

The Project for Premodern Japan Studies in the History Department of the University of Southern California announces this summer’s Heian Kambun Workshop. We are pleased that Professor Tomoyasu Katô of Meiji University and Professor Hideo Yamaguchi of the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute (Shiryô Hensanjo) will co-lead the workshop with Professor Joan Piggott of the USC History Department. We will focus on Heian-period (794-1180) materials including official annals, legal records, courtier journals, and ritual handbooks. The primary language of the workshop will be Japanese, but translation into English is also emphasized. Morning and afternoon sessions will be held Monday through Friday from July 16 to August 10 in the USC East Asia Library Seminar Room. Applicants must be fluent in Japanese, and they must have completed basic coursework in classical Japanese and in either classical Chinese or Kambun. The cost of the workshop, including lodging in apartments conveniently located on the USC campus, is $5000.

Applications can be downloaded from the Project for Premodern Japan Studies website at

http://dornsife.usc.edu/ppjs. Applications are due March 1, 2012, and registration deposits are due at that time.

For further details contact:

Professor Joan Piggott
University of Southern California
Department of History, Social Sciences Bldg.
3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
Phone: (213) 821-5872
Fax: (213) 740-6999
joanrp@usc.edu