Project Name

Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Campbell, the Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature

Project Contents

Dr. Robert Campbell, the first non-Japan born scholar, was appointed to lead the Japan’s National institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) in April 2017. He will deliver a lecture entitled “Cities set within Themselves: Thoughts on the Literary Landscapes of Early Modern Japan.”
His talk starts with a rough overview of the historical geography of Edo-Tokyo, from which we can explore the ways writers and illustrators used the urban landscape to represent human life within the early twentieth century cycle of disaster and reconstruction. Dr. Campbell will focus especially on the physical and literary constructions of the Ginza, a section of town near the main venues of the upcoming Game.

Capacity: 75-80 seats max