January 14, 2014
All Day
Faculty Club Grand Lounge
Event Host: Division of Arts and Humanities
Mark Bender, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State, will give a lecture titled “Life from the Sky: Eco-Genealogy and Cosmographic Epics from Southwest China and Beyond”.
The epic poem, the Book of Origins, is a major ritual text of the Nuosu (Yi) people of Southwest China. This lecture will discuss the epic and other traditions which meld distinct features of the local environment with human experience. RSVP
Reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to the public.
