October 11 (Wed)
5:30 pm
| Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
'Books are Useless': Collecting, Excess, and Bibliophile Culture in Prewar Japan
Speaker: NATHAN SHOCKEY, Associate Professor of Japanese, Bard College
Other details: This talk is followed by a Q&A with Prof. Shockey and a reception. Attendees are also encouraged to visit the newly-opened East Asian materials exhibition in the lobby of the Houghton Library.
Houghton Library Winship Lecture co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenchin Institute and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.