Hanno Jentzsch
Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University Statement I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for the EAJS council. A political scientist by training, my work focuses on regional inequalities, agricultural reform, local governance, and social welfare in Japan. From my time as a PhD candidate to my current position […]
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities at Nagoya University Statement My name is Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, and I teach Japanese modern literature in the Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program at Nagoya University. My work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in contemporary Japanese literature. Specifically, I have published on Zainichi Korean literature, literary representations […]
Barbara Geilhorn
Senior Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Adjunct Researcher at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University Statement I feel honoured to have been nominated for a second term as a member of the EAJS council. Currently based in Japan, I am a mid-‐career scholar with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research. […]
Andrea De Antoni
Associate Professor of socio-cultural anthropology at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Statement I am an anthropologist born in Venice, but I have lived in Kyoto for more than twelve years. In the picture, I am the one on the left. I have been an EAJS Member since 2008, when I took […]
David Chiavacci
Professor in Social Science of Japan at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Statement It is great honor for me to have been nominated again as a candidate for the EAJS Council. For over two decades, I have been a member of the EAJS and participant in its conferences. Besides being a EAJS council member (2020-2023), […]
EAJS 2023 Opening keynote
Opening keynote: Asianization of Asian Studies and its impact on Japanese Studies Prof. Shigeto Sonoda, University of Tokyo Since the end of the Cold War, a new concept of “Global Asia” has emerged, triggered by growing attention to the path(s) of globalization. The gravity of Asia and its growing political and economic influence on the […]
Marcos Centeno
Lecturer at University of Valencia, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, Research Associate at the Japan Research Centre, SOAS, and University of London Statement The EAJS has become an instrumental association for bringing together scholars and helping them to decolonise the curriculum across disciplines, challenging old Eurocentric approaches. I believe the EAJS has […]
Edward Boyle
Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto Statement It is a tremendous honour to have been nominated as a candidate for the EAJS council. I only attended my first EAJS conference in Lisbon in 2017, but I am driven by the desire that every subsequent event I attend be characterized […]
Sébastien Penmellen Boret
International Research Institute of Disaster Sciences (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Ass. Prof. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Ass. Prof. Centre of Northeast Asian Studies, Research Associate Statement It is a great honour for me to have been nominated as a candidate for the election of the new EAJS Council starting September 2023. The EAJS meetings have […]
EAJS 2023 Conference Grants
The EAJS applied for funds from the Toshiba International Foundation to support delegate attendance. Below, please find the application criteria. The availability of conference funding is contingent upon the approval of our application to the Toshiba International Foundation and cannot be guaranteed at this time. The rules and criteria for application are straightforward: ALL applications […]
