Japanese Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Current Employment and Positions

  • 2019 Project Professor Tokyo College, Tokyo University
  • 2007- 2017 Lecturer at ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    (Spring course about Cultural and Scientific History of East Asia)
  • 1994- Co-director Tübingen University Center for Japanese Studies at Dōshisha University, Kyōto
  • 1992- Professor of Japanese Studies, University Tübingen

Previous Appointments

  • 1990-92 Professor for Modern Japanese Studies at Trier University
  • 1983-90 Research assistant (associate professor) Philipp Franz von Siebold Research project University-Bochum, Faculty for East Asian Studies Historical Department

Education and Academic Degrees

  • 1981-84 Dr. Phil. Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of East Asian Studies - summa cum laude Supervisors: Professor Bruno Lewin and Professor Helmut Schnelle
  • 1975-81 M.A. German, Slavic, Chinese and Japanese Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (Fellowships in Odessa 1976, Berlin Humboldt University 1979)
  • 1970-74 Eötvös József Gimnázium. Budapest German minority class

Languages

Proficient Hungarian, German, Japanese, English
Reading skills Russian, French, Latin, Classical Chinese, Classical Japanese, Ainu

Academic Service

  • 2007 - 14 Member of the university commission for honorary members
  • 2003 - 09 Faculty Advisory for equal opportunity
  • 2004 - 06 Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Cultural Studies

  • Scholarships Awards, Grants and Other

  • 2011 Invitation as Research Fellow Cheng Kong University Tainan (summer)
  • 2010 Best Essay award for “Japanese in the European Language Space” from:
    日本語学論説資料, Materials for the Study of Japanese
    URL: www.ronsetsu.co.jp
  • 2009 Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Delegation to Japan (with President Günther H. Oettinger) (autumn)
  • 2009 Japan Foundation Hakone Forum for the Future of Japanese Studies (autumn) 1
  • 2009 Curator at Hungary Festival in Japan Nukumori wa kawaranai (‘Intimity is stable’)– Aliona Frankl Photographs Exhibition at Mayugura Galery, Tōkyō Ōme
  • 2009 Invited lectures (with the Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy) Japan Foundation, Ōsaka University and Tōkyō University, February
  • 2008 Ōsaka University research project member Human interface
  • 2007-2013 Library Support and Visiting Japan Program Shōyu Club, Kasumi Kaikan
  • 2007-2009 Member of the research group Global Risks - University Sheffield, Dōshisha University, University Tübingen
  • 2006 Speaker of the Excellence project proposal „High Tech and Hegel. Centre for Methods in the Humanities and Social, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, German Science Foundation
  • 2005-2008 Member of the Graduate School Tübingen University Global Challenges, Transcultural and Transnational Solutions, German Science Foundation
  • 2005-2008 President of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Japan Foundation
  • 1998 Visiting professor Kyōto Tachibana Woman’s University, Japan Foundation
  • 1994 Visiting professor Postgraduate Program for Applied Linguistics - Janus Pannonius University Pécs Hungary (winter)
  • 1993 Visiting Scholar Tōkyō University Komaba (summer)
  • 1985 Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the year award Ruhr University Bochum

Invited Lectures

  • 2013 Invited lecture Tōkyō University, World Literature and Japanese Literature in the Era of Globalization: In Search of New Canon (Contemporary Situation of the Hungarian Literature in the Context of Europe Today – Peter Esterhazy seen through the German window)
  • 2013 Invited lectures Tōkyō Rikkyō, Tōkyō Gaikokugo University, Kōbe Kansai Gakuen Japanese Society for the Study of German
  • 2012 Invited lecture Japan Foundation Budapest (Aging in the Japanese way – lecture given in Hungarian)
  • 2011 German Japanese Society for integrative Science München (150 years of German Japanese Scientific Relations)
  • 2010 Invited Lecture PEN Club World meeting Kyōto (The Literature of the Danube)
  • 2007 Invited Lecture Peking University, distinguished speaker at the Conference for 60 years of Japanese Studies at the Peking University in (Japanese Studies in Europ –lecture in Japanesee)
  • 2007 York University Toronto, Canadian Association for Japanese Studies as President of the EAJS (Japanese Studies in Europe)
  • 2006 University Tübingen Studium Generale Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution 1956 (I remember Piroschka – German Hungarian Stereotypes) 2
  • 2003 Invited Lecture Princeton Department for Asiatic Studies (The Concept of Person in Japanese)
  • 2003 Tōkyō German Institute for Japanese Studies (Japanese Linguistics and Car Navigation Terminology)

Conference Organization

  • 2012-2015 Invitation Japan Foundation Budapest Office to establish a Ph. D. Workshop for East-European Japanese Studies
  • 2011 Conference Rhetorik im vormodernen Japan. Konzepte – Strategien – Performanz with Buck-Albulet, Heidi (Thyssen Foundation)
  • 2009 Japan and the Japanese People. Views from a Transcultural Perspective. A Joint Project of Dōshisha University and Tübingen University, Conference Tübingen (Dōshisha University, Tübingen University)
  • 2009 New Perspectives on Translation in Japanese and Transcultural Studies Language Spaces, reframing and translation from Japanese, Conference Kyōto Dōshisha University (Japan Foundation)
  • 2008 12th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (President of the society) Lecce, Italy
  • 2008 Global Risks - University Sheffield, Dōshisha University, University Tübingen Workshop Tübingen (Dōshisha University)
  • 2007 Conference of the “German Society for Japanese in Higher Education” (Japan Foundation)
  • 2005 Europe and Western and Eastern languages University Tübingen (Studium Generale, lectures University Tübingen)
  • 2003 Dōshisha-Tübingen 10th Anniversary Conference Kyōto (Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation)
  • 1996-2002 Convener Linguistic Section EAJS (Japan Foundation and other sponsors)

Further Activities

  • 2007 Organization of a Cherry Blossom festival at the Botanical Garden of the Tübingen University (funded by company Würth)
  • 2006 Children’s University Tübingen
  • 2001-04 Developing a car navigation system for Japanese for Temic Mercedes/BMW
  • 1981-84 Member of the university parliament RUB Bochum
  • 1980 Qualification as a High School teacher for German and Russian in Hungary
  • 1977-79 Sumitomo Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation Language teaching and translation, Budapest. 3
  • 1974 Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, University Library, Russian librarian.4
     

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