BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@harvard-yenching.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081231T103000 DTSTAMP:20201027T004154Z URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/2006-2008-hyi-past-events/ SUMMARY:2006-2008 HYI Past Events DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n What Makes and Keeps Images Alive? The Chinese Art of En livenment: A Symposium\n\n Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\ n\n Date: October 24-25\, 2008\n\n Location: The Thompson Room 110\n The Barker Center for the Humanities\n 12 Quincy Street\n Cambridge\, MA 0213 8\n\n Introduction:\n\n The role of images in shaping cultures is widely a cknowledged. Less probed is the question of what makes images efficacious in the first place? The conference explored the mechanism and processes th rough which cultural convictions and conventions animate static images in Chinese history and society. Issues that were discussed included ways of p erceptual projection\, symbolic investment\, rhetorical amplification\, ge neric inflection\, properties of medium\, visualization and visionary embo diment\, technological innovation\, sociopolitical manipulation of public images\, and ritual use of visual images.\n\n Conference Website\n\n\n Con ference on Public Health\, co-sponsored with Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\n\n Date: December 20-27\, 2008.\n\n View the conference poster and the co nference agenda.\n\n\n Culture of Classicism: Retracing Core Knowledge of East Asian literature\n\n Harvard-Yenching Institute Workshop\, organized by Tokumori Makoto\n\n Date: 27 September\, 2008 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.\n L ocation: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\n\n Co-Chair: Karen Thornber\, Harvard University & Edward Kamens\, Yale University\n\n Presentations:\n\ n SAITO Mareshi\, Associate Professor at University of Tokyo (Chinese clas sical literature\, Comparative literature)\, a visiting associate of Harva rd-Yenching Institute\n "East Asia as the Sinographic sphere"\n\n KONOSHI Takamitsu\, Professor at University of Tokyo (Japanese ancient literature) \n "The Foundation of Literate Culture in Early East Asia: Learning from D ictionaries and Categorized Encyclopedias"\n\n\n Historical Dialogue and R econciliation in East Asia: Recent Practice and Future Prospects\n\n Date:  September 12-13\, 2008\n\n Sponsored by the Harvard Yenching Institute\, with support from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and Harvard Univ ersity Asia Center\n\n The Harvard Yenching Institute hosted a symposium o n "Historical Dialogue and Reconciliation in East Asia: Recent Practice an d Future Prospects" on September 12-13\, 2008. The symposium was organized by Professors Andrew Gordon and Hiroshi Mitani. Professor Mitani\, of Tok yo University\, is a historian of Japan and was in residence at the Harvar d-Yenching Institute in 2008. Professor Gordon is a historian of Japan on the Harvard faculty.\n\n Draft Program available here.\n\n\n Structured C onversation on the Humanities at Leading East Asian Universities\n\n Date:  May 9-10\, 2008\n Location: American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, Cambr idge\, MA\n Conference closed to the Public\n\n In both East Asia and Amer ica\, the idea of the university and the role of the humanities and social sciences is increasingly a topic of discussion. To that end\, Dean Emerit us Henry Rosovsky and Professor TU Weiming\, Director of the Harvard-Yench ing Institute\, organized a structured conversation regarding the role of the humanities and social sciences in higher education in leading East Asi an universities\, held under the sponsorship of the Harvard-Yenching Insti tute. The participants represented seven regions in East Asia (Japan\, Kor ea\, China\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong\, Vietnam and Singapore) and the United St ates.\n\n\n The Possibility of Literary Theory in Japanese Literature\n\n Date: August 29-31\, 2007\n Location: 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n An Internation al Symposium sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. The program is  available.\n\n\n Words Over Borders\n\n Date: Saturday\, June 2\n\n Event Schedule\n\n 9:00 - 9:25 a.m. "Love for the Absolute: Poetic Tradition an d Transgression in Early Modern Korea\," Jinhee Kim (Yonsei University\, S outh Korea)\n\n 9:25 - 9:50 a.m. "Potentiality of Literary Experience: The Role of the Fictional Past in Medieval Japan\," Mariko Naito (The Univers ity of Tokyo\, Japan)\n\n 9:50 - 10:10 a.m. Discussant: Sehyoung Cho (The University of Seoul\, South Korea)\n\n 10:20 - 10:45 a.m. "Is Li Bai a Rom anticist? Understanding an Old Poet through a New Concept\," Ning Liu (Bei jing Normal University\, China)\n\n 10:45 - 11:10 a.m. "Strings that Bind: Cross-Influences in the Literatures of Southeast Asia\," Muhammad Salleh (Science University of Malaysia\, Malaysia)\n\n 11:10am - 11:30 a.m. Discu ssant: Stephen Owen (Harvard University\, U.S.)\; Chair: Xiaofei Tian (Har vard University\, U.S.)\n\n 11:30 - 12:00 a.m. Open Discussion\n\n\n Relig ion\, Popular Culture and Social Changes in Asia\n\n Date: Friday\, June 1\n\n Event Schedule\n\n 9:00 - 11:00 \n Chair: Stephen Mitchell (Profes sor of Scandinavian and Folklore\, Harvard University)\n\n Discussants: R obert Weller (Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University) and Henriett a Harrison (Professor of History\, Harvard University)\n\n Julia Chien-yu Huang (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar\, National Tsing Hua Un iversity\, Taiwan)\, "What Travels? -- Taiwanese Buddhism in Malaysia”\n \n Toshiaki Kimura (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar\, Tohoku U niversity)\,  “Kinship\, Ritual and Christianity: A case study of Chri stian grass-roots prayer groups of Toba Batak immigrants in Medan\, Sumatr a”\n\n 11:15 - 12:15\n Chair: Robert Weller\n\n Discussants: Henrietta Harrison\, Stephen Mitchell\n\n Deming An (Harvard-Yenching Institute Vi siting Scholar\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)\, "Temples and Gods o n Ye Mountain: Reconstruction and Readaptation of Popular Religion in a Changing Village in Northwest China”\n\n 1:30 - 2:30\n Chair: Robert W eller\n Discussants: Henrietta Harrison\, Stephen Mitchell\n\n Shang-Jen Li (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar\, Academia Sinica)\, "Mir aculous Surgery in a Heathen Land: Protestant Medical Missions to Nineteen th-Century China”\n\n 2:45 - 4:45\n Chair: Henrietta Harrison\n Discuss ants: Stephen Mitchell\, Robert Weller\n\n Shih-pei Hung (University of Oxford)\, "The Fusion of Traditional Body Techniques and Techno-science i n a Millennia list group”\n\n Lihui Yang (Harvard-Yenching Institute Ass ociate\, Beijing Normal University)\, “Anti-Globalization and the Recon struction of Chinese Folk Tradition: A Study of the TV Series The Legend of Nezha”\n\n\n Reviewing the Past\, Projecting the Future - Harvard-Yen ching Institute's Contributions to the Advancement of the Humanities and S ocial Sciences\n\n Date: 6/2/06 - 6/4/06\n Location: Harvard University\ n\n The international conference "Reviewing the Past\, Projecting the Futu re - Harvard-Yenching Institute's Contributions to the Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences" was held at Harvard University from June 2 -4\, 2006. The conference provided an opportunity for Harvard-Yenching Ins titute Doctoral Scholarship Grantees (former doctoral grantees with a doct oral degree and currently funded doctoral students)\, Visiting Scholars an d Fellows to present their scholarly works at Harvard University\, and to generate new scholarly interaction among them. The conference also offered a chance to review the Institute's accomplishments in the past decades in promoting the development of the humanities and social sciences in East a nd Southeast Asia. The conference had five panels (see below for details) which were held simultaneously in five seminar rooms at the newly construc ted Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Buildings.\n\n A copy of the program is available.\n\n\n Suzhou Alumni Conference\n\n D ate: 9/22/06 - 9/25/06\n Harvard-Yenching Institute Alumni Association\n\ n The Harvard-Yenching Institute Alumni Association\, PRC Branch\, held th e 6th Biennial Conference of the the Harvard-Yenching Institute Forum "Cul tural Awareness & Cultural Identity: East Asian Perspectives" from Septemb er 22-25. Sponsorship for the Forum includes Nanjing University\, Harvard- Yenching Institute\, Harvard-Yenching Alumni Association (Mainland China)\ , and the Suzhou Industrial Park Administration Committee.\n\n\n Vietnames e Literature in the Regional and International Context of Cultural Exchang es\n\n Date: 11/3/06 - 11/4/06\n Location: Hanoi\, Vietnam\n\n In order to examine Vietnamese literature as an object taking shape and developing within circumstances influenced by internal and external factors\, as well as to consider current states of the field of Vietnamese literature studi es\, and create a forum for scholarly exchanges between Vietnamese and int ernational researchers\, the Institute of Literature and Harvard-Yenching Institute co-organized an international conference entitled Vietnamese Lit erature in the Regional and International Context of Cultural Exchanges. T his two-day conference was held in Hanoi from November 3-4 2006.\n\n The c onference consisted of five panels as follows:\n\n 1.- Vietnamese Literatu re in the Doi Moi Period (1986-2006)\n The evaluation of the achievements of Vietnamese literature after 20 years of Doi moi ("Renovation" or "Chang ing for the New") is now attracting a great interest from researchers in t he fields of literary theory\, criticism\, and creative writing. It also d raws a significant attention from the Vietnamese and international public. This panel will not only evaluate Doi moi literature's achievements\, but also examine its current states\, projecting its future\, appraising its capacity to engage itself with regional and international literature\, and examining its national identity in the context of globalization. Experien ces drawn from the development of the Doi moi literature during the last 2 0 years also need to be revisited. Especially in this panel Vietnamese lit erature scholars expect to receive novel insights from their non-Vietnames e colleagues\, considering them outside observations and critical thoughts that are needed to move toward more comprehensive and rational evaluation s of current states and prospects of Vietnamese literature.\n\n 2.- Litera ture and Culture\n\n Traditionally\, the relationship between literature a nd culture can be described as that of a component and an assembly to whic h it belongs ("culture" hereby covers the way of life\, including knowledg e\, arts\, beliefs\, social conventions\, or customs). Their relationship can also be envisioned as that of a component and the others in the assemb ly. The nature of these relationships can be characterized as interactive and multi-dimensional.\n\n The study of Vietnamese literature in relation with national culture and its dynamics has attained significant achievemen ts. In addition to new and profound studies conducted in this direction an d based on recent attainments of social sciences and the humanities\, this panel expects that the study on the relationship between literature and c ulture will be considered in a broader scope. Vietnamese literature (past and present) should be regarded as a component of regional and global cult ure. Starting from this basis\, national identity and humanity in (Vietnam ese) literature can be examined with novel insights and from multiple pers pectives.\n\n 3.- The Role of Literary Translation in the Development of N ational Literature and Comparative Studies\n\n Chronologically\, literary Vietnamese translation employed two scripts: the Nom (starting circa 15th century) and the Quoc ngu (since the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century). It covers a wide array of types\, ranging from rete lling\, sketching\, or plot borrowing to modern translation. Due to the co nditions and particular capacities of the structure of the language and th e scripts through historical periods\, Nom and Quoc ngu translations have different contributions to the development of literature of the nation. In comparison with its Nom counterpart\, Quoc ngu translation has occupied a more noticeable position.\n\n Translated literature\, as a channel to int roduce foreign literary and cultural values to a nation and simultaneously a conscious but also arbitrary choice of the native\, has changed through times under the effects of specific historical\, cultural and social fact ors. It provides new topics and motifs\, adding new ways of representation \, and consequently changing writing styles and transforming existing conc epts\, predilections\, aesthetic necessities\, and most importantly\, impr oving the nation's literature and language. Viewed from another perspectiv e\, translated literature is the basis to understand the transition and tr ansformation of values from one culture to another\, apprehending national characteristics in the process of interacting with other cultures\, and c omprehending the internal demands of the national literature. Besides the requirements of recoveries of old literary texts\, the study of Vietnamese translated literature through times also needs new interdisciplinary\, tr anscultural and transnational approaches. This panel expects to receive pa pers relevant to the above issues. Papers contributed to this panel may al so have other approaches to emphasize the role of translation in the histo ry of Vietnamese literature.\n\n 4.- Interacting Relationship between Oral and Written Literatures Literature and the Arts\n\n At the beginning of t he formation of written literature\, oral literature and written literatur e were closely related to one another. Their relationship took place on th e basis of mutual effects\, and its characteristics might vary from one to another period. The compilation and textualization of oral literature as well as works imitative of and created from literary materials of oral lit erature can be regarded as one direction of influence. Another direction c an be found in the circulation of written literary works composed in the s tyle of oral literature\, with various textual changes randomly made by ci rculators\, in elements borrowed from written literature and applied in or al literature\; or in the introduction of historical authors and heroes in to folk literature and beliefs. These two directions coexist and mutually affect one another. In Vietnam\, when problems of manuscript culture have not yet been considered thoroughly\, results and consequences of the mutua l effects between oral and written literatures still require researchers t o pay special attention to the study of authors\, their works and their cu ltural environment\, as well as the history of oral and written literature . This panel hopes to receive papers based on careful investigation and ve rification of texts and field studies to understand and interpret the inte racting relationship between oral and written literatures.\n\n Literature also has interacting relationship with other arts. Literary works can be i nspirational sources\, which have deep influence on fine arts works or on works of performance arts\, and vice versa. When the notion of "text" is n ot limited within written or printed literary works\, the connotation of t he act of "reading" is also open toward other products of the arts\, such as sculpture\, painting\, or music. Intertextuality allows us to "read" ou t interarts elements implanted in literature and the arts. Here we can see the response of the reader who plays the role of the subject in the reade rly creative process in a specific type of literature or the arts. The pan el welcomes papers on films and plays as written literary texts (film or p lay scripts) and as performance art products\; and on the relationship bet ween literature and fine arts (especially with paintings and sculptures in spiring or inspired by literary works). Papers presented in this panel can also investigate the interacting relationship between literature and the arts from a diversity of perspectives beyond the above suggestions.\n\n Ha noi\, April 16\, 2006\n Chair of the Conference Committee\n Prof. Phan Tro ng Thuong LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20051030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20060402T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20061029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20070311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20071104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20080309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20081102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR