Kynning á japönskum fræðum við Osló-háskóla

Japanskan við HÍ býður til kynningar á japönskum fræðum við Oslóarháskóla. Einnig verður boðið upp á tvo fyrirlestra um japanska menningu. 

Haldið í stofu 103 í Lögbergi, miðvikudaginn 12. febrúar kl. 13:30-15:15.

Dagskrá: 

13:30-14:00 Presentation of the MA Programme in Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo (Mark Teeuwen)

 14:10-14:40 Guest lecture Rebecca Suter, “Images of the Nordic countries in Japanese popular culture”

14:45-15:15 Guest lecture by Mark Teeuwen, “Play, prayer, and patronage in Japanese traditional festivals (matsuri)”

Rebecca Suter, professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

Professor Suter teaches and researches on modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture in a comparative and transnational perspective. Her publications include The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (2008), Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction (2015) and Two-World Literature: The Early Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (2020).

Lecture: The lecture will explore the representation of Northern European countries in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture, focusing on how they are portrayed and perceived at the same time as charmingly exotic and reassuringly familiar places.

Mark Teeuwen, professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

Professor Teeuwen’s field is the history of religion in Japan. Among his publications are:

A New History of Shinto (with John Breen, 2010)

A Social History of the Ise Shrines (with John Breen, 2017)

Christian Sorcerers on Trial (with Fumiko Miyazaki and Kate W. Nakai, 2020)

Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History (2024)

Lecture: Matsuri (traditional festivals) are very complicated events, with many actors and as many competing agendas. This lecture asks how we can understand matsuri better, based on case studies of an urban and a rural matsuri.