"Illuminating Genji"
Sehr geehrte Mitglieder der Schweizerisch-Japanischen Gesellschaft,
gerne laden wir Sie zum öffentlichen Abendvortrag von Prof. Dr. Melissa McCormick (Harvard University) zum Thema "Illuminating Genji: Reading the World's First Novel in Text and Image" ein.
Der Vortrag in englischer Sprache findet statt am Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2019, um 18:00h in KOL-G-217 (Hauptgebäude UZH, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich).
Eine Voranmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
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The Tale of Genji, written by the court lady Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, inspired art works of tremendous variety throughout Japanese history. In this talk, Melissa McCormick discusses strategies for reading the tale today using highlights from an exhibition that she guest curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in Spring 2019. The exhibition traced the tale’s cultural legacy over one thousand years, displaying more than 120 objects from collections in Japan and the United States. Central points to be examined in the lecture include new ways of interpreting the female authorship of the tale, Genji's relationship to Buddhism, and the political uses of Genji imagery from the medieval to the modern era.
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Wir freuen uns auf rege Teilnahme an dieser besonderen Veranstaltung!
"Illuminating Genji" |
