Professor Josef Kreiner wins 4th NIHU Prize for Japanese Studies
We congratulate Professor Josef Kreiner for winning the 4th NIHU (National Institutes for the Humanities) Prize for Japanese Studies. Professor Kreiner is a founding member of the EAJS and its first elected president. For more information please refer to https://www.nihu.jp/en/news/2022/20221017
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We are happy to announce the launching of our new homepage!Here members and non-members can find latest information concerning our conference, workshops and EAJS activities.In the future, it will also be possible for EAJS members to renew their memberships and manage their data online as well as for new members to apply for membership. We […]
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Dr. Till WEINGÄRTNER
Dr. Till WEINGÄRTNER President Today, twelve years after attending my first EAJS conference in Lecce, I feel very honored to be nominated for the second time as a candidate for an EAJS council member position. I have been lucky to have had the opportunity to act as a member of the extended council for the […]
Prof. Dr. Kristina IWATA-WEICKGENANNT
Prof. Dr. Kristina IWATA-WEICKGENANNT My name is Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, and I am an associate professor teaching 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 of precarity, and […]
Dr. Barbara GEILHORN
Dr. Barbara GEILHORN I feel highly honoured to have been nominated as a candidate for the EAJS council. Currently based in Japan, I am a mid-career scholar with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research. Relying on my work and research experiences in various academic environments, including in Germany, Japan and the UK, I hope to […]
Prof. Dr. Andrea DE ANTONI
Prof. Dr. Andrea DE ANTONI My name is Andrea De Antoni. I am Italian, but I have lived in Kyoto for the past ten years. I have been an EAJS Member since 2008, when I was also invited to the TIFO Recipients Meeting. I was a Ph.D. student in Venice at the time and those […]
Prof. Dr. David CHIAVACCI
Prof. Dr. David CHIAVACCI It is a great honor for me to have been nominated as a candidate for the EAJS council. Besides being a member of the EAJS and participant in its conferences for two decades, I had already opportunities to contribute to the EAJS as section organizer in its international conferences (2011 and […]