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Dr. Kōhei Kataoka Research Associate “I am taking part in this project as a research associate in charge of the research area “time in the market”. I have specialized in Japanese medieval history and got my Ph.D. degree at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. In Japan, I have striven to elucidate the concept of impurity and its influence on social regulations. Both “time” and “market” (or economic history in general) are thus new research topics for me. As far as I know, it seems “time” has not been an aspect that has received much attention amongst Japanese researchers so far. When I first heard about the TIMEJ project, its aim and methodology caught my interest. I decided to participate in the project in the hopes to introduce the conclusions drawn from it to Japan in the future.” Though moving to Switzerland was an unexpected event for me, I would like to enjoy this opportunity. |
Research Institute of Time Studies, Yamaguchi University
http://www.rits.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/?page_id=33
The TIMEJ team works in close cooperation with the Research Institute of Time Studies of the Yamaguchi University in Japan. Their lectures include topics on time-related areas such as developmental biology, evolution, the birth of the universe, and sociological time.
Prof. Kenta Fujisawa, director/president of the Research Institute of Time Studies, visited Zürich in September 2018 to give a speech at the TIMEJ project’s kick-off event. From July 30 – August 3, 2018 a joint symposium was organized in Yamaguchi, with a 2 day PhD student workshop and a 3 day conference about Time in Medieval Japan. Researchers from both institutions will participate in the Time in variance conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) in Los Angeles in June 2019. Furthermore, members of the Research Institute of Time Studies will contribute articles to a volume about time in medieval Japan.
Department of Ethics
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
Tokyo University
http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/teacher/database/222.html
Prof. Yorizumi holds a chair for ethics at the University of Tokyo. Her main research areas are the two 13th century religious thinkers Shinran and Dōgen. While she has written a series of books on Japanese Buddhism in general, several of her acclaimed monographs focus on Dōgen‘s seminal work Shōbōgenzō. Her focus thus aligns very closely with Prof. Raji C. Steineck and Etienne Staehelin from TIMEJ‘s research area monastic time, who both also do research on Dōgen. As a natural collaboration partner for the TIMEJ project, she took part in the 2018 symposium Time in Medieval Japan hosted at Yamaguchi University and intends to attend a planned conference in Zürich. Furthermore, she supervised Etienne Staehelin during a 6 month research stay at the University of Tokyo from October 2017 to March 2018, where he was able to study the Shōbōgenzō under her guidance, among others taking part in her seminar and several workshops on the matter.
Department of History
University of Oregon
https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/platypus/
Prof. Goble was a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich in September 2019 where he gave a 5-day lecture about Connecting Medieval Japan: Sources, People, Networks, and Institutions. He is specialized in the history of Medieval Japan and his research included a broad field of topics. The careful handling of primary sources from the Middle Ages has a high priority in Gobles research and through his expertise as a historian, he is able to enrich the curriculum with an important technical, but also methodical, dimension.
Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences
Hosei University
https://cis.hosei.ac.jp/en/depts/cs/
Prof. Akaishi was a visiting researcher at Zürich University from April 2018 – March 2019. Her main area of research is narrativity based information access, including databases, information visualization and natural language processing.
She helped the TIMEJ gorup to apply digital analyses to various source texts and visualised eg. word-clouds related to specific key terms, or identified seasonal peaks in the use of such key terms.
Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
Department of Japanese Intellectual History
Tohoku University
https://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/researcher/profile/---id-5.html
Prof. Satō was a guest lecturer at Zürich University in November 2018 where he gave a 3-day lecture about The Changing Image of the World After Death in the Japanese Islands. He is interested in the study of tombstones, graves, and Buddhist artefacts from the perspective of the history of thought.
“The Changing Image of the World After Death in the Japanese Islands”
The Japanese medieval worldview, which saw this world as a temporary lodging in which to dwell before arriving in the far otherworldly pure land began to show signs of transition and change from the 14th century. From this point onward, the sense of reality attributed to the world of the other shore rapidly faded, and the priorities in people’s concerns and religious values shifted in emphasis from the other world to this one. They no longer held the ideal of arriving in a distant other world after death. Instead, they now hoped to enjoy the life of this world to the fullest, and after death to sleep peacefully in some corner of it where they could continue to live in some way with their descendants. This can be understood in terms of a decline, a shrinking of the world of the other shore and a commensurate expansion in the significance of this world. A process of secularization of the other shore began in the early modern period, and continued through to the modern period. The image of Buddha vanished from the world of the dead.
