The Crisis of the Humanities and the Future of Japanese Studies, February 3 at Pitt.

The University of Pittsburgh’s Asian Studies Center and East Asian Languages & Literatures program, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Endowments at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics. will present "The Crisis of the Humanities and the Future of Japanese Studies" on February 3. The event is a book launch and conversation with editors Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel of the forthcoming book Modern Japanese Literary Studies.

Join us for a conversation with the two editors of Modern Japanese Literary Studies, a new collaborative volume that reexamines the field at a moment of significant change. Drawing on interdisciplinary and global perspectives, the editors will discuss the book’s key interventions, the evolving place of modern Japanese literature in the humanities and the challenges and possibilities facing the field today.

The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, both in 4130 Posvar Hall on the University of Pittsburgh campus (map) and remotely (registration required).

A Japanese-language talk "A Discussion on the State of Modern Japanese Literary Studies in Japan" will be held at Carnegie Mellon on February 4, and "Shimazaki Tōson and the History of Methodology in Modern Japanese Literary Studies" with professor Christopher Lowy on February 5.