Flowers, Trees and Forests in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese Literature

PROGRAMME

·       Thursday 30 April (08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 15.00 Athens / 20.00 Beijing / 21.00 Tokyo)

Yasuhiro Katsumata (Kyoto University), The Symbolism of Pine Trees in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and Yukio Mishima’s Sound of Waves

·       Thursday 7 May (07.00 New York / 12. 00 London / 14.00 Athens / Beijing 19.00 / 20. 00 Tokyo)

Kyoko Nakanishi (Tsuda University), Symbolism of Plants in Greco-Roman and Japanese Classical Literature: a Comparative Approach

·       Thursday 21 May (08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 15.00 Athens / 20.00 Beijing / 21.00 Tokyo)

Sarah Marshall (Oxford), Mono no aware: Trees and Flowers as Figures of Transience in Homer, Vergil, and The Tale of Genji

·       Thursday 28 May (08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 15.00 Athens / 20.00 Beijing / 21.00 Tokyo)

Yumi Suzuki (Cambridge), Classifications of Plants in Ancient China and Greece: An Ethnobotanical Comparison

·       Thursday 4 June (08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 15.00 Athens / 20.00 Beijing / 21. 00 Tokyo)

Didier Natalizi Baldi (Oxford), Killing trees – Arboricide in Latin and Classical Chinese Literature

·       Thursday 18 June (11.00 New York / 16.00 London / 18.00 Athens / 23. 00 Beijing / 00.00 Tokyo)

James Zainaldin (Vanderbilt), Writing the Peach Between Chinese and Roman Agronomy

·       Thursday 25 June (08.00 New York /13.00 London / 15. 00 Athens / Beijing 20.00 / 21.00 Tokyo)

Di Wang (Hunan) / Marina Bazzani (Oxford), Flowers, Trees and Forests in Early Chinese and Byzantine Encomium Literature

·       Thursday 2 July (07.00 New York / 12.00 London / 14.00 Athens / Beijing 19.00 / Tokyo 20.00) 

Dimitra Amarantidou (Shandong), Dao in Greek Soil: Seferis's Translation and Transplantation of Vegetal Imagery in the Daodejing 道德經

·       Thursday 9 July (08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 15.00 Athens / 20.00 Beijing / 21.00 Tokyo)

Beth Harper (Hong Kong), The Old Man in the Garden, or Charismatic Idleness: Comparisons from Ancient China and Rome

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