Keith Knapp, professor of history, was invited to participate in the annual Japanese Tale Literature conference, which was hosted by Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan. On June 17, in Japanese, he presented a paper entitled “Current Research on Accounts of Filial Children in North America and Europe.” He, along with a Chinese archaeologist, was the first foreigners and non-literature specialists to ever take part in this meeting.
In June, his essay “Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as Seen in Early Medieval Tales of Filial Offspring,” was published in Confucian Cultures of Authority (State University of New York Press).
