Nov 08 2012
Shirane Lecture: “Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons”
Haruo Shirane, Shinchō Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, will be coming to UBC to deliver the inaugural John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
November 22 (Thursday)
6:30pm Registration; 7:00 pm Lecture
Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall
Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen paintings to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Dr. Haruo Shirane will show how, when, and why this practice developed and explicate the richly encoded social, religious, and literary meanings of this imagery.
Please join us for a lecture and reception honouring Professor Emeritus John Howes. Dr. Howes is an intellectual historian and leading authority on Japan’s Christian and pacifist thinkers, who dedicated three decades to mentoring students and expanding Japanese Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC.
For more information and to register, click here.
Hi there!
I was unable to make the lecture, but I’m very interested in listening to it. Has it been uploaded online anywhere?
Thanks for the question.
According to the Asian Studies Department, no recording was made of the lecture. However, Professor Shirane’s talk was based on his new publication, which you can check out at UBC Library:
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=5795293
Or purchase:
http://www.amazon.ca/Japan-Culture-Four-Seasons-Literature/dp/0231152809/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1354928957&sr=8-4
Shirin