IMAP Students

 

Hayden BURKE
Second-year MA student
Brisbane, Australia
Reshaping the Shore: Seawalls on the Amami Cultural Identity

 

Souleymane BURGO
First-year MA student
Guadeloupe, French West Indies, France
The adaptation and reception of premodern literary myths in Meiji society

 

Zayd JABER
First-year MA student
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Synchronicity in the Southern Isles: Analyzing Cultural Transmission Between Kyushu and Ryukyu Using Archaeological Findings

 

Shalini KANCHANAMALA
Second-year MA student
Kalutara, Sri Lanka

 

Isaac LEE
Second-year MA student
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Painting Hegemony: Diplomatic Folding Screens of the Late Tokugawa

Sam RIN
First-year MA student
Singapore
Kendi and other Japanese Export Porcelain to Southeast Asia

Ileana ROJAS
Second-year MA student
Mexico City, Mexico
Avant-garde from the Periphery: A Dialogue Between Rufino Tamayo and Saori (Madokoro) Akutagawa

 
 

Louis TEDESCHI
Second-year MA student
Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
Train of Thought: Japanese Rail Policy in the Late Meiji Era

 

Dino VAN DE VELDE
First-year MA Student
Ghent, Belgium
Photographic Representation of Nationalism in Taisho Period Japan

 

Dane WHITTIER
Second-year MA student
Lincoln Nebraska, USA
Edo period Isolationism, and the Phaeton Incident

 

Deborah YEO
First-year MA Student
Singapore
“Old and New Monsters”: The Debate and Discourse of Yōkai in Tōhō Project

 

IDOC Students

 

Alexander EVANS
Third-year PhD student
Towson, Maryland, United States of America
Assembling Dazaifu: Society, Politics, and Space in a Gate-Front Town during the Bakumatsu Period
Website: https://evansae.com/

 

Jan Frederik HAUSMANN
Second-year PhD student
Münster, Germany
Changing Beliefs and Organizations: The Modern Transformation of Confraternities in Japan
Email: hausmann.jan.200@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  • Jan is a PhD student in Japanese humanities and religious studies at Kyushu University. His research explores the developments of Japanese religious confraternities from the Edo to the Meiji period. Specifically, he compares the developments of confraternities associated with different religious sites across Japan, among them Mount Fuji, Mount Ishizuchi and Ise Grand Shrine. His research relies primarily on written sources.

    Research Interests: Popular religion, confraternities, new religions, pilgrimage, modernity, Edo period, Meiji period.

    Professional Activities:

    Conference Presentations:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. “Hagiographies in Japanese New Religions: An Example from Nakayama Shingoshōshū.” Paper presented at “EAJS 2023, the 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies,” Ghent University, Ghent, 2023.08.18

    Journal Articles:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. ハウスマン ヤン フレデリック. “Shinshūkyō to sono shūso: Nakayama shingoshōshū o rei ni” 新宗教とその宗祖：中山身語正宗を例に. Shingoshō kenkyū 身語正研究 4 (2023), 45–58.

    Book Reviews:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. Review of Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan, by Janine Anderson Sawada. Asian Ethnology 82:1 (2023), pp. 181–83.

 

Raditya Halimawan NURADI
Third-year PhD student
Jakarta, Indonesia
Taking Note of Anime Pilgrimage: The Case of Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto (MA Thesis)
Email: nuradiraditya@kyudai.jp
Website: https://radityanuradi.weebly.com/
New Books Network

  • Raditya is a Phd student at Kyushu University. His research explores the relationship between religion and popular culture through the phenomenon of anime pilgrimage. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork at various pilgrimage sites, including Fukuoka, Gifu, and Ishikawa. He is particularly interested in the construction of sacred spaces through practices inspired by popular media such as anime or manga.

    Research Interests: Religion and popular culture, pilgrimage, material culture, contemporary, religious practices.

    Fellowships/Scholarships:
    Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation Scholarship 2018 – 2020
    Sōjitz Foundation Scholarship 2021 - 2023
    Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING) by JST (Japan
    Science and Technology Agency)     2021 - Present

    Professional Activities:
    Conferences and Workshops
    Mutual Images 8 th International Workshop (Presentation)
    Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2022 (Panel Convenor and
    Panelist)
    Mechademia Conference 2022 (Presentation)
    UN/REAL Workshop Transcultural Perspectives on Digital Living 2022 (Presentation)
    Others:
    Host for New Books in Japanese Studies, a podcast channel of New Books Network (NBN)
    Check Raditya’s episodes here.

 

Jacob RITARI
Third-year PhD student
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Eiketsu：The Making of Bakumatsu Heroes

  • Jacob's research focuses on the heroes or "eiketsu" of the Bakumatsu period, in particular Sakamoto Ryōma, and their depiction in media and popular culture. He is interested in the cultural meaning of heroism, and his MA thesis explored a similar issue through the lens of Japanese detective fiction.

Alejandra ROJAS
First-year PhD student
Morelos, Mexico
Kakiemon-style porcelain in 18th century Europe: An analysis of the Oranienburg Palace and the Drayton House inventories
Email: rojas.barrera.alejandra.590@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  • Alejandra's Masters' thesis focused on the reception of Japanese porcelain in 18th centure Europe. Her main fields of interest are material culture, art history and cultural memory studies. Particularily, she is interested in the study of Arita, Saga Prefecture and the construction of an identity of this town based on its history on porcelain production.

 

 

KIKKAWA Takurō
Second-year PhD student
Okayama, Japan
The History of budō and its Ethical, Religious, Intellectual and Aesthetic Evaluation in Transition

 

Norman TIETZ
First-year PhD Student
Duisburg, Germany
Myth and Legitimacy in Early Modern Northeast Asia: A comparative study of Japanese and Manchu historiography

 

Research Students