WINTER 2007 BULLETIN

IN MEMORIAM

The department mourns the passing of Assistant Professor of Korean Literature Scott Swaner (1968-2006). An expert in contemporary Korean poetry, Professor Swaner received his doctorate from Harvard in 2003 and came to UW later that year for a post-doctoral position. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2004. He will be missed by colleagues, students, and friends. Memorial Service for Scott Swaner Friday, January 19 2007, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Suzzalo Library, Smith Room

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Communications 226, University of Washington campus)
	Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Dr. Marc Miyake "The Path to Kana(da): An Overview of the Earliest Written Evidence for Korean and Japanese"

Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Communications 226, University of Washington campus)
	Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Carrie Reed, Middlebury College "Parallel Worlds, Stretched Time and Illusory Reality: The Tang Tale 'Du Zichun'"

 

Thursday, 22 February 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Savery 211, University of Washington campus)
	Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Jameel Ahmad, University of Washington "Translating Classical Urdu Poetry: Problems and Possibilities"

 

Friday, 2 March 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Communications 226, University of Washington campus)

Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Paul Atkins, University of Washington "The ‘trembling ghost of Yugao’ in a Ruined Garden" This talk will explore the representation and repression of demonic and ghostly figures in the medieval Japanese noh drama by comparing the depiction of the Kawara-no-in (Riverside Cloister), once owned by the aristocrat Minamoto no Tôru (822-95), in two plays.  In Tôru, the villa is constructed as a site for aesthetic excess and courtly elegance; in Yûgao, it is haunted by the ghost of a young woman, a fictional character from The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000), who was murdered there by the living spirit of one of Genji’s former lovers.  While on the surface dissimilar, both plays suggest that noh playwrights regarded their classical past not as a age of bygone glory but rather as frightening, sinister, and ultimately unknowable.

Additional colloquia will be scheduled for January 31 and February 12, with topics on Japanese/Korean linguistics. Details will be posted on the Asian L&L web site as they become available.

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