Project 5 "Critiquing Diversity" lecture series Imagining Other Times, Dreaming Other Places: A Talk and Reading by Laird Hunt with Motoyuki Shibata
- Time and Date
- 7:00−8:30PM, Tuesday, December 1, 2015
- Venue
- Collaboration Room 1, 4th Floor, Building 18, The University of Tokyo, Komaba
- Speaker
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Laird Hunt(Novelist)
Motoyuki Shibata(Translator, Project Professor of the University of Tokyo) - Language
- English
- Note
- Admission Free; No Registration Required
- Organized by
- the Educational Project 5 "Cultural Diversity and Imagination," Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity, The University of Tokyo
Project 5 "Cultural Diversity and Imagination" is pleased to inform that we will invite novelist Mr. Laird Hunt and translator Mr. Motoyuki Shibata to give us a talk for the "Critiquing Diversity" lecture series. There is a reading session from Kind One etc. (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2012, was recently translated into Japanese by Mr. Shibata). We look forward to having you join in this wonderful opportunity.
Laird Hunt
Novelist. The author of Kind One. Other major works are, Indiana Indiana (2003), The Exquisite (2006), Neverhome (2014) etc. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at Denver University.
Motoyuki Shibata
Translator of Hunt's novels such as Indiana, Indiana and Kind One (both are published with Asahi Shinbun Shuppan). He is a project professor at Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo.
*N.B.
- IHS students will be asked to submit a report essay after attending the lecture.
- By participating in this event, you acknowledge that you are aware that pictures, video, and audio of the event may be used for the purpose of the program.
