Harvard AY 2022-2023

Instructor: Jeffrey Hamburger Th 3-5:45 Location: TBA The interaction of authority and authorship in the High Middle Ages, especially in the context of glossed books and commentaries, but also emergent vernacular literatures, with a focus on pictorial...

Instructor: Alex Csiszar TBA How and to what extent is knowledge shaped by the forms and genres through which it has been produced? Bringing history of science and technology together with media studies, book history, and cultural theory, we will consider...

Instructor: David Stern T, Th 1:30-2:45 Location: TBA have spent much of your life since kindergarten (and perhaps earlier) reading books; and you will spend much of your time at Harvard continuing to read them. But do you even know what a “book” is? Is...

Instructor: David Stern W 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...

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...