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), […]
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 […]
Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus (President)
Prof. Dr. Andreas NIEHAUS President I am very honored and grateful having been elected for the position of President of the EAJS. As local organizer, I was instrumental in organizing the 2021 online and 2023 hybrid international EAJS conferences in Ghent, and as member of the extended Council, I have contributed to the general work […]
