Harvard AY 2023-2024

Jeffrey Schnapp 1/22/2024 to 4/24/2024 M, 3:00pm - 5:00pm Description: Though built around three seminal figures from the 2nd half of the 20th century the artist-designer Bruno Munari, the radical writer-educator Gianni Rodari, the novelist Italo Calvino...

Si Nae Park 1/22/2024 to 4/24/2024 T, 12:45pm - 2:45pm Description: This lecture course introduces undergraduate students to major works, writers, themes, and styles of Korean literature while exploring literature-inspired questions using Korean...

Deidre Lynch 1/22/2024 to 4/24/2024 W, 3:00pm - 5:45pm Description: In this seminar we will work our way through theoretical work presenting the Western book as, variously, medium, interface, commodity, technology (including technology of empire), storage...

Jinah Kim 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 M, W, 1:30pm - 2:45pm Description: Monsoon Asia refers to the area of the globe where climates are determined or profoundly affected by the monsoon, from the Himalayas, to the islands of Indian Ocean, all the way to the...

Alex Csiszar 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 Th 3:00pm - 5:00pm Description: Are new digital and social media revolutionizing how we know the world? Is a networked science a more open, and public, science, and is this a good or a bad thing? How do scientists and...

Ann Blair and Leah Whittington 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 M, W, 3:00pm - 4:15pm What makes some texts long-lived while others are ephemeral, today and in the past? We live in a moment of “crisis” around regimes of preservation and loss. As our communication...

David Atherton 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 T, 12:45pm - 2:45pm Description: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the literature of Japan’s medieval centuries (broadly conceived as the 12th through 16th centuries), together with an overview of...

David Atherton 1/22/2024 to 4/24/2024 W, 12:45pm - 2:45pm Description: This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and...

David Atherton 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 M, W, 1:30pm - 2:45pm Description: Poetry written by gods, incestuous aristocratic romances, exorcist theater, samurai fantasy novels, fart literature: traditional Japanese literature has something for everyone, and...

Ann Blair, Hannah Marcus 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 Th 3:00pm - 5:45pm Description: This seminar examines methods and debates in the study of material objects relevant to intellectual history and history of science. The first part is devoted to books, the...