Kanbun Workshop in Stockholm (fwd)

[Michael (gm) Watson]

ANNOUNCEMENT
of
The First European Kanbun-Workshop
July 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden

Dear colleagues of Japanese Studies,

Professor Eiichi Ishigami at The Historiographical Institute at The University
of Tokyo will lead a three-week long workshop on Kanbun-reading in July 2008 in
Stockholm, Sweden.

This workshop will be held as a part of a research project called
「日本前近代史料の国際的利用環境構築の研瘢雹究: Research on Building an
Environment for International Usage of Premodern Japanese Historical
Sources」 (in short: Japan Memory Project or JMP) funded by Grant-in-Aid
for Scientific Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The aim
of the workshop is to broaden the usage of the Japanese historical source
material. The expected participants of the workshop are researchers on Japanese
history, working as joint researchers, who need to read and analyze historical
sources written in kanbun for their research.

Prof. Ishigami specializes in the history of the Nara and Heian periods and has
given a series of Kanbun-workshop in the USA. The workshop in Stockholm will
consist of training in reading, analysis, annotation and translation of mainly
Heian-period historical material, which is written in Japanized Chinese Writing
和化漢文 or Altered Chinese Writing 変体漢文, not in Orthodox
Classical Chinese. Although the material of the workshop is mainly from the
pre-modern period, the workshop will be very useful for historians of Japanese
history in general. The result of the workshop, translations and glossary will
be published as a part of the JMP-project. The primary language of the workshop
will be Japanese and the participants must, therefore, be fluent in Japanese
and have completed basic course work in classic Japanese as well as an
introductory course in either classic Chinese or kanbun.

The workshop is to be held in July between the 7th and 25th.  An administration
fee of only 50 Euros will be charged, thanks to Prof. Ishigami who will join us
with JSPS-funding and KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, who will support
us with free seminar facilities during the workshop. KTH also provides lodging
to the participants who need student rooms for 3500 Kronor per room (approx.
360 euro) for the whole month of July.

We are grateful for any help to disseminate this announcement. For further
information and application, please contact Yoko Takau-Drobin promptly, no
later than March 15.

For further details contact

Yoko Takau-Drobin

Lecturer
Section of Languages and Communication
KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology
yo...@csc.kth.se