The Project for Premodern Japan Studies in collaboration with The University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute announces:

The 2007 Summer Kambun Workshop

Reading Heian Regency Materials

July 16-August 10, 2007

And a new Pre-Workshop Kambun Tutorial Week:
July 9-13, 2007

Flyer (pdf)

The Project for Premodern Japan Studies in the History Department of the University of Southern California announces the fourth annual summer Kambun Workshop for graduate students and faculty in premodern Japan studies. We are pleased to announce a new collaborative relationship with the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute. Professor Eiichi Ishigami of the Historiographical Institute, who specializes in the history of the Nara and Heian periods, will co-lead the workshop with Professor Joan Piggott of the USC History Department. The 2007 workshop will focus on materials from the Heian Regency era (late 9th to later 11th centuries), and will consist of practice in the reading, analysis, annotation, and translation of historical texts from this era. The primary language of the workshop will be Japanese, but translation into English is also emphasized. Translations from the Workshop will be published on the USC Kambun Workshop website. Sessions will be held Monday through Friday from July 16 to August 10 in the USC East Asia Library. Applicants must have reading and spoken fluency in Japanese and they must have completed basic course work in classical Japanese. For those who have no background in either classical Chinese or kambun, we are pleased to offer a second annual Pre-Workshop Kambun Tutorial week for students who need preparatory training in reading kambun. The Tutorial will be taught by two advanced graduate students from USC who have participated in several previous Summer Kambun Workshops.

Tuition for the workshop is $1500. For those who want it, the Tutorial week tuition is an additional $400. On-campus housing will be available. Please see the application for options. Some fellowship assistance may be available to lessen tuition costs. However, applicants are encouraged to seek financial assistance from their home institutions. Applications are due March 17, 2007, and registration deposits are due May 4, 2007.

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

Last updated: June 26, 2009