Reading Late Edo Period Media and Society: Kawaraban and Handwritten Manuscripts from the Kano Bunko Collection of Tohoku University

September 16th – 20th, 2013

ORGANISERS

Heidelberg University   ハイデルベルグ大学
Institute of Japanese Studies   日本学科
Akademiestrase 4-8
69115 Heidelberg

Tohoku University   東北大学
Center for Northeast Asia Studies   東北アジア研究センター
Uehiro Historical Materials Research Department   上廣歴史資料学研究部門
http://uehiro-tohoku.net/guide.html

The instructor will be Prof. Ken‘ichiro Aratake, Associate Professor at Tohoku University. The language of instruction will be Japanese only!

CONDITIONS

The workshop will be limited to 20 participants. No tuition fees apply but registered participants will be asked to contribute €50 toward the cost of course materials. We cannot provide accommodation for the duration of the workshop, but we are happy to help the successful applicants locate accessible
venues in Heidelberg.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Applicants should send a short CV and a brief paragraph explaining how the workshop will contribute to their research. The deadline for applications is August 18th. We will keep a waiting list and notify additional participants on a rolling basis.

For further details and the week schedule please see the announcement:
http://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/japanologie/

For more information and to send your application please contact:
Dominik Wallner (senseito@gmx.de) or Doreen Mueller (dm29@soas.ac.uk).