Events 2009December SeminarDate: Monday 14th December 2009 October SeminarDate: Monday 26th October 2009 September Seminar (A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture)Date: Monday 28th September 2009 Numismatic Conference 2009The International Numismatic Conference and Exhibition, under the
auspices of the Oriental Society of Australia, University of Sydney. Covenor: Dr Nicholas Hardwick, Fellow of the Society
of Antiquaries of London (FSA), Tel: (61 2) 9516 0357 For details go to the Numismatic
Conference and Exhibition hompage. July SeminarThe Oriental Society cordially invites members and guests of the Society to a presentation by the distinguished Scholar Professor Leith Morton, this presentation follows the 2009 Annual General Meeting. Presentation Title: Rethinking Literary History Date: Monday 13th July 2009 Abstract: Japanese literary history is being rewritten: from works composed in ancient Chinese to the literatures of Japan’s pre-war colonial empire, the canon of Japanese literature has expanded enormously. Literary histories of Japan have been rewritten in accordance with this enlarged canon. But the first literary history recognizable as such produced in Japanese well over a century ago was unashamedly an imitation of a genre originating in the West and therefore was something completely new. This lecture proposes a reexamination of these fundamental categories: ‘literature’, ‘history’, and ‘literary history’ from the perspective of the invention in Japan of a new genre called ‘bungakushi’ or literary history. My thesis is that the variety of literary history created in Japan pertaining to the literature of that country is a creature with an edge; indeed it is all edges, with margins and centers being a matter of perspective alone. The very nature of the colonial project rehearsed by the Japanese state in the early decades of the 20th century meant that a literary history of that state was a challenge to Western notions of literary history: it was an edgy project, and envisaged margins and centers very different from those prevailing in the West. I will endeavour to describe and analyse literary history as practiced in modern Japan as the first step in a fundamental reexamination of the notion of literary history. Biography: Leith Morton graduated with a PhD from the University of Sydney in 1983. He has been a visiting researcher and lecturer at universities in Japan, the USA, Poland, Germany, and Britain. He was formerly senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Sydney and foundation Professor of Japanese at the University of Newcastle. He is now a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has written 6 books of poetry, including At The Hotel Zudabollo (2004) and Tokyo: A Poem in Four Chapters (2006). His other books include Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View (2003); Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry (2004); Yosano Akiko no ‘Midaregami’ o Eigo de Ajiwau (2007) and The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature (2009).
Annual General Meeting 2009 Date: Monday 13th July 2009 Venue: Quad Refectory Room, Main Quadrangle Building, The University of Sydney Agenda: Nominations for all office bearers can be downloaded from HERE and should be sent to the Honorary Secretary: seiko.yasumoto@usyd.edu.au by 8th July, 2009. Seiko Yasumoto EC and JOSA editorial committee meetings.1) Date: Friday 9th January 2009
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