Japan Research Centre ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 62: September 2011 - August 2012 SOAS University of London Letter from Chair
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Japan Research Centre ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 62: September 2011 - August 2012 SOAS University of London Letter from Chair STUDYING AT SOAS The international environment and cos- CONTENTS mopolitan character of the School make student life a challenging, rewarding and P.3 Letter from the Chair exciting experience. We welcome students P.4 JRC Members from more than 130 countries, and 50% of P.5 Members News them are from outside the UK. P.8 Academic Events 2011-12 P.9 Event Reports JRCの所長になってから、ちょうど一年になりました。非常に刺激的な経験でした。10月の明治神 The SOAS Library has more than 1.5 million P.15 Research Students 2011-12 宮セミナーでは、パリ第七大学のCecile Sakai教授が現代日本の女流作家についてご講演くださ items and extensive electronic resources. P.17 Honorary Appointments いました。11月の津田セミナーではカリフォルニア州のアーバイン大学のAnne Walthall教授が徳 It is the national library the study of Africa, 2011-12 川時代後期の銃砲の文化的、歴史的な意義についてご講演くださいました。おかげさまで、この二 Asia and the Middle East and attracts schol- P.18 Honorary Appointment News つのセミナーは両方とも大好評でした。また、JRC定例セミナーでは毎週、日本の文学を始め、政 ars all over the world. P.21 SISJAC News 治、芸術など、幅広い、興味深いテーマに触れることができました。そのほかにも、JRCのメンバ P.22 Awards & Bursaries ーは、色々なイベントに参加する機会も得ました。例えば、昨年7月に、Chris Gerteis准教授のオ SOAS offers a wide range of undergraduate, P.25 Japanese Roof Garden ーガナイズによってSOASで行われた翻訳ワークショップなどがその好例です。昨年度のvisiting postgraduate and research degrees. Stu- P.26 Brunei Gallery, SOAS scholarsの皆様はもう日本に帰国されたと思いますが、これからもロンドンで培った絆を大切にし dents can choose from more than 400 un- P.27 Join the Centre ていきましょう。今年、来られたvisiting scholarsの皆様、ロンドンでいい友人ができ、素晴らしい dergraduate degree combinations and from 経験ができるように祈っております。 more than 100 postgraduate programmes (taught and distance learning) in the social sciences, humanities and languages with a “As ever, our regular I have now come to the end spoke about the role of guns occasional translations in distinctive regional focus and global rele- of my first year as chair of during the Tokugawa period. Japanese Studies, edited by vance, taught by world-renowned teachers seminar series provided the JRC. After settling in to It was a great pity that Kayoko Chris, and it is available to in specialist faculties. rich pickings for anyone the post thanks to the kind Tsuda was unable to attend scholars world wide. This with an interest in Japan, and extremely competent the event this year, but we development will allow SOAS is consistently ranked among the top help and advice of Jane and were delighted to welcome the JRC to reach out to an higher education institutions in the UK and and we learnt about Rahima in the Centers and Stan. Both lectures drew increasingly wide community the world. In 2006 SOAS joined the top 20 things as varied as the Programmes Office, I really large crowds and offered real of people with an interest in European universities in the Times Higher role of the Japanese came to enjoy being part of insights into various aspects things Japanese. Education Supplement rankings, and in this highly stimulating and of Japanese culture and 2007 the Guardian listed it again among the Prime Minister to book eventful part of SOAS life. society. As ever, our regular Let me take the opportunity top dozen UK universities, which include sellers’ catalogues during seminar series provided rich to offer a fond farewell to last other University of London colleges (UCL, I have found it particularly pickings for anyone with an year’s visiting scholars who LSE and King’s College) as well as Oxford the Tokugawa period” interesting to be involved interest in Japan, and we have now returned to Japan, and Cambridge. in the many lectures and learnt about things as varied and also to welcome the new SOAS is a college of the University of Lon- seminars that we put on as the role of the Japanese visitors for the coming year. don and the only Higher Education institu- SOAS offers a friendly, vibrant environment during the year. Prof. Cecile Prime Minister to booksell- On behalf of all academics tion in the UK specialising in the study of right in the buzzing heart of London with Sakai gave a fascinating talk ers’ catalogues during the involved with Japan stud- Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. the capital’s rich cultural and social life on on contemporary Japanese Tokugawa period. I have ies at SOAS, we look forward its doorstep. women’s literature at the Meiji been booking seminar speak- to getting to know you and SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely Jingu lecture in October. And ers for the coming year, and sharing ideas in the coming combining language scholarship, discipli- we were particularly delighted there is much of interest to months. nary expertise and regional focus, it has to welcome Rev. Amitani, Mr. look forward to. the largest concentration in Europe of Moriyasu Itô and Dr. Yoshiko Finally, it was very sad indeed academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia Imaizumi from Meiji Jingu to Some of you may be aware to hear that Kayoko Tsuda and the Middle East. the event. that we are entering the passed away in April this 400th year anniversary of year. An obituary appears On the one hand, this means that SOAS Their presence at the award Anglo-Japanese relations. on P.6, but let me just note remains a guardian of specialised knowl- Contact US ceremony in the Director’s As I write, we are consider- that although I did not have edge in languages and periods and regions Office, when certificates were ing plans for the best way to the opportunity to come to not available anywhere else in the UK. We welcome you to become part of the given to the recipients of celebrate this date, so please know Kayoko well during this On the other hand, it means that SOAS SOAS experience and invite you to learn the Meiji Jingu scholarships, watch out for details as they year, I did have the honour scholars grapple with pressing issues - more about us by exploring our website. helped make it a particularly become available. of attending a memorial democracy, development, human rights, happy and festive occa- service. At that service, I identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, www.soas.ac.uk sion. In November on a visit Under the continuing came to realize that Kayoko social change - confronting two-thirds of to Tokyo, I was delighted to auspices of Chris Gerteis, the was a woman with so many humankind. Admissions take part in an unforgettable SOAS Translation Workshop in interests and a real zeal for www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ ceremony at Meiji Jingu and Japanese Studies took place life. We are deeply grateful This makes SOAS synonymous with receive the kind hospital- at SOAS in July 2011. Three for the support Kayoko has intellectual enquiry and achievement. It SOAS Library ity of all there. The speaker of the Workshop faculty were given to the JRC. is a global academic base and a crucial www.soas.ac.uk/library/ at the Tsuda Annual lecture JRC members. We have now resource for London. We live in a world of was Prof. Anne Walthall, who set up a webpage to contain Steve Dodd shrinking borders and of economic and Research technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a www.soas.ac.uk/research/ world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world SOAS, University of London that SOAS is distinctively positioned to Thornhaugh Street analyse, understand and explain. Russell Square London WC1H 0XG 2 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 3 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Centre Members Members News Professor Timothy H BARRETT Dr Griseldis KIRSCH Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Professor of East Asian History Lecturer in Contemporary Senior Lecturer in Applied Department of the Study of Religions Japanese Culture Japanese Linguistics [email protected] Department of the Languages and Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea Cultures of Japan and Korea Dr Alan CUMMINGS [email protected] [email protected] Alan Cummings Stephen Dodd Christopher Gerteis Teaching Fellow in Japanese Teaching Fellow in Japanese Senior Lecturer in Japanese Lecturer in History of Contemporary Department of the Languages and Dr Mika KIZU Dr Nicole ROUSMANIERE Japan Cultures of Japan and Korea Lecturer in Japanese Research Director, Sainsbury Institute for In August, Alan Cummings gave During this academic year After two years of hard work, as Social Responsibility. [email protected] Department of the Languages and the study of Japanese Arts and Cultures a paper entitled “Japanese Folk Steve Dodd has been very Christopher Gerteis is pleased In: Gerteis and George (eds.). Cultures of Japan and Korea (Honorary Lecturer) and the Authenticity Blues” busy with teaching, and also to report that Bloomsbury Japan since 1945: from Post Dr Stephen H DODD [email protected] Department of the History of Art as part of a highly enjoyable getting the hang of being the will publish Japan since 1945: war to Post-Bubble. London Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Archaeology panel that examined artistic Chair of the JRC. However, from Postwar to Post-Bubble and New York: Bloomsbury. (In Chair, Japan Research Centre Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI [email protected] interventions in Japan’s high- he have managed to squeeze in November 2012. The book, Press) Department of the Languages and Librarian (Japan and Korea) growth era of the 1960s at the some things in. In November which he co-edited with Cultures of Japan and Korea Library and Information Services Ms Sonja RUEHL 13th European Association of 2011, Steve was invited to Timothy S. George (author 2012 Co-authored (with [email protected] [email protected] Fellow in Financial and Management Japanese Studies conference in attend a symposium on of Minamata: Pollution and Timothy S. George). “Revisiting Studies Tallinn, Estonia. modern Japanese literature at the Struggle for Democracy the History of Postwar Japan.” Dr Lucia DOLCE Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Department of Financial and Waseda University, Tokyo.