YIWSA: Nicholas Kraus and Loren Waller

On Thursday, April 7th at 3 pm, YIWSA will hear a talk from Nicholas Kraus (Yale Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) entitled ”Signs of Authority: Calligraphy and Control in Sargonic Mesopotamia.”  Then Loren Waller (Yale Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) will give his talk, entitled ”Between Topoi and Illusion: Shifts in Orange Tree Significance in Japanese Poetry and Prose from Antiquity to the Medieval Period.” The presentations, focusing on very spatially and temporally distant societies, nonetheless promise to provoke an interesting comparative discussion about the complexities and possibilities of writing.

 

To accommodate our colleagues in NELC and EALL who wish to attend two important events at 4, we will be hosting an abbreviated version of our usual meeting format and will finish promptly by 3:55.