Here we go! CentreTerm 2017 starts tomorrow, and we will have our first updates on student work. Things will move a little slowly at first of course, but we will have possible research topics very quickly and the outlines of a podcast to come soon after that.
I have been working hard on some basic preparatory documents and in sketching out our work in class for the coming weeks. As always there is so much we will not have time to cover, but I am looking forward to the work to come and to the students’ contributions to this site.
Over the next sixteen class days we will discuss: East Asian religious practice and how it intersects with the telling of ghost stories and folk tales; the Japanese phenomenon of yokai and how they are discussed historically; and stories of the dead and demonic relating to love and gender.
All the while, students will be working hard on their podcast episodes and providing updates on their research and experiences here. It is going to be a fun (and busy) couple of weeks.