Save the date of our Yiwsa Capstone Lecture, which will take place on Thurdsay, May 5 at 5:30 pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), room 104.
It is my pleasure to announce that, thanks to generous support from our parent organization, the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World (Yisap) and additional support from the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University (CEAS), Yiwsa is able to invite to campus Wiebke Denecke, professor of Chinese, Japanese, and Comparative Literature (affiliated with Classical Studies) at Boston University.
In perfect resonance with this year’s Yisap theme of “frontier and province” and with Yiwsa’s mission of interdisciplinary comparison and dialogue, Prof. Denecke’s lecture for the capstone workshop will be entitled “New Frontiers of Eurasian Comparison: Practices, Opportunities, Dirty Truths.” I have included the abstract and a flyer for the lecture below.
Prof. Denecke’s wide-ranging research resituates and rethinks the classical literary cultures of East Asia, their interrelationships, and their place and purpose in the schemata of world literature. Her most recent book, Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons (Oxford, 2014) explores the dynamics of two premodern literary cultures, Japan and Rome, as they develop in the presence of older, more established “reference cultures,” China and Greece. In the process, the book prompts new approaches to all four of these literatures and meditates on the practice of comparative literature in premodern contexts more broadly. Prof. Denecke’s bio and CV can be found here.
Given Prof. Denecke’s work and expertise, it is hard to imagine a more perfect way to conclude a year of interdisciplinary dialogue among students of various world antiquities, so please join us on Thursday, May 5 at 5:30 pm in LC 104.