A Symposium in honour of Dr. Phillip Harries

The Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford

University of Oxford, Friday, 23 March 2012

Event Programme

9:30                 Registration

10:00               Opening Remarks: James McMullen (University of Oxford)

10:15               Haruo Shirane (Columbia University) – “Waka in the History of Japanese literature”

11:00               Gian-Piero Persiani (University of Oxford) – “The 36 Poetry Immortals: A Short Cultural History”

11:45               Anne Commons (University of Alberta) – “"Beyond Poetic Immortality: Hitomaro as Deity”

2:00                 Suzuki Jun (National Institute of Japanese Literature) –  “Kōetsu Sanjūrokkasen to ehon no seiritsu” (in Japanese)

2:45                 Clare Pollard (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology) – “Edo-period Cards of the Poet Sages”

3:30                 Izumi Tytler (Bodleian Japanese Library) – “Kasen Materials in the Bodleian Library”

4:15                 Closing Remarks: Linda Flores (University of Oxford)

4:30                 Exhibition visit: “The Thirty-six Immortals of Japanese Poetry” (Bodleian Library)

Registration is required to attend the event. To register, please email nathalie.phillips@orinst.ox.ac.uk no later than Tuesday, 20 March 2012. For all other enquiries: gian-piero.persiani@orinst.ox.ac.uk