Fall 2022

Instructor: David Atherton W 12:00pm-2:45pm Location: TBA This course explores the nature of authorship and the imagination of literary creativity during Japan’s Edo period (1600-1868). Did poets, playwrights, and commercial writers understand “writing”...

Instructor: Si Nae Park M 3:00pm-5:45pm Location: TBA This course provides graduate students with research methods to study East Asian rare books with a primary focus on Korea. Students will have hands-on experience using materials held by the Harvard...

Instructor: Jeffrey Hamburger Th 3pm-5:45pm Location: TBA In a networked age, diagrams are everywhere. From philosophy, semiotics and computer science to the burgeoning field of graphics, diagrams visualize knowledge in critical ways. This seminar will...

Instructor: David Stern Th 3pm-5:45pm Location: TBA You have been reading books since first grade if not earlier, but how much do you actually know about the physical object you’ve been reading—the book, the material artifact? Drawing on a great deal of...