Public lectures

The Little Prince at Babel : translations in rare languages

The jousting of languages : The Collection of Chinese and Japanese Poems Worth Reciting (Wa-kan rôei shû) (^11th century)

Reading of Sino-Japanese poems related to the course topic

Hieroglossia I - Latin Middle Ages, Arab-Persian world, Tibet, India

The esotericism of language : Kûkai's (774-835) ideas on language

Reading of original Kûkai texts relevant to the course