Global Literature Online Book Group: Session Five with the Asia Center at Harvard University
Date and Time
Location
The sijo is the most popular and most Korean of all traditional Korean poetic forms, originating with the old songs of the Hyangka of the Sylla Empire (668-936) and the prose songs of the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392). Sometimes likened to haiku for its brevity, a typical sijo poem follows a three-line pattern, with each line containing approximately fifteen syllables. The Bamboo Grove will interest not only poets and students of poetry, but scholars of Korean culture curious to view history through this important and significant form of verse.
Session Format
The online session will include a combination of presentation and discussion. It will be conducted in an Adobe Connect virtual classroom space and can be accessed from any computer equipped with the latest version of Flash. An external headset and webcam is encouraged but not required for participation. Before a session test your internet connection and version of Flash for compatibility with AdobeConnect at this diagnostic link. The session will include a chance to discuss the novel with fellow educators and talk live with the author.
Pre-Reading
To support educator access to this text, the first forty K-12 educator registrants will receive a copy of The Bamboo Grove from the Harvard University Asia Center.
Once registered, these 40 participants will be contacted to provide a mailing address for receipt of book.
Prior to the session participants will be asked to complete reading of the introduction and selected excerpts from the book.
This event is part of an ongoing global literature online book group. A partnership of international study centers on Harvard's campus, this online reading series for K-12 educators explores literature from five global regions: Africa, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, and the Islamic World. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss works of global literature with experts and authors in monthly, online conversations. http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/k-12-resources/global-literature-online-book-group-educators.
Contact: Anna Mudd
Sponsors: Harvard Committee on African Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Center, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and the Harvard University Asia Center
As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of this program does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.