[Mar 20] Modern Japanese Literature and Linguistics Workshop

Date: March 20, 2025 (Thursday)

Time: 4:00–6:00 PM

Venue: CRT 4.36, 4/F., Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Talk 1

Media and Literary Expression in the Aftermath of Disaster: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Japan's Neo-Perceptionist School

Speaker: Professor Hirokazu Toeda | School of Culture, Media and Society, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

Talk 2

Dialectal Novels as Reflections of their Time: Lights, Shadows, and Prophecies of Japan's High Economic Growth Period

Speaker: Professor Yukari Tanaka | Department of Japanese Language and Literature, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University

Moderator: Prof. Daniel Poch Associate | Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, the University of Hong Kong

All are welcome and no registration is required.

For enquiries, please contact Prof. Daniel Poch at dpoch@hku.hk