Translation and Scriptworlds in East Asia

A continuation of the Tanner Lecture on Human Values Symposium with David Damrosch, April 10, 2025.

First session, 12 noon – 1:00pm

“Kasuga Akane’s Haiku: Script, Translation, and Japanese Mexican Nikkei Hybridity”
Ashton Lazarus — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures

“Wang Issa Hass Ko Du: Vagaries of World Poetry After Sinographic Canonicity”
Lucas Klein — Arizona State University

“Terror and the Global Japanophone: Sakiyama Tami’s ‘Island Language’ as Guerrilla Warfare” 
Cindi Textor — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures

Second session, 1:00pm–2:00pm

“Writing it like it is: Literarization of Korean in the Sinographic Cosmopolis”
Young Oh — Arizona State University

“Clear and Easy Text: Scriptural Literalism in Medieval Chinese Buddhism”
Max Brandstadt — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures

“Of Legibility, Illegibility, and Cow Drool: Civilizational Hierarchies in Early Modern Japan”
Will Hedberg — Arizona State University

Featured image: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Kirenji Toko (Du Xing)

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