Institute of Humanities
Institute of Humanities
In April 2019, the Faculty College of Literature established the Institute for Humanities, an organization that will operate the education and research of each department in a more global, interdisciplinary, and organic manner. College of Literature Institute aims to strengthen the international orientation that has been the faculty's goal since its establishment and to generate interdisciplinary research. In addition to academic activities among faculty members, we hope to provide students with educational experiences that transcend the boundaries of departments and graduate schools, and a place to support interdisciplinary research.
“Humanities Research Institute Essays attached to College of Literature”
Issues 1 to 3 were published as "Reports of the Institute of Humanities, Faculty College of Literature"
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Issue 1 Table of Contents (2019)
Establishment of the Institute for Humanities, Faculty College of Literature Letters, and its activities in 2019
Shinichi Saeki, Professor Department of Japanese Language and Literature -
Table of Contents of Issue No. 2 (2020)
Symposium Record: "The Sacred in the East and the West: Opening up the Study of Comparative Cultures" (December 21, 2019)
Professor Shinichi Saeki Department of Japanese Language and Literature and others
Research project report on the planning, organization, and management of the 2nd International Conference on Modernism and Multiple Temporalities, The Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
Kunio Hata, Associate Professor Department of English
Report on the Faculty of College of Literature' affiliated research project "Short essay genres in public spaces"
Professor Department of French Language and Literature France DHORNE
Report on the research project "Verbs and Their Arguments: Focusing on Case Structures in English and French"
Professor Kozue Ogata Department of French Language and Literature
Report on the status of research on "Basic research into the literary activities of the contemporary poet Kenneth Rexroth in both Japan and the United States"
Yasuhiko Komatsu, Professor Department of Japanese Language and Literature
About "Research on Modern Japanese History Using Magazines"
Associate Professor, Department of History, Kyo Komiya
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Issue 3 Table of Contents (2021)
Verbs and their arguments in English and French
Professor Shoichi Takahashi Department of English
Empirical Syntactic Research of Modern English Grammar in the Dynamic Grammar Theory
Professor Kazuo Nakazawa Department of English
College of Literature Affiliated Research "Short Text Genres in Public Spaces" 2020 Activity Report
Professor Department of French Language and Literature France Dhorne
Research on overseas information in early modern Japan: 2020 research project results report
Professor Miyuki Iwata Department of History
Language and History in Europe
Professor Masashi Warita Department of History -
Issue 4 Table of Contents (2022)
Papers
"How a Military Tale is Made" by Shinichi Saeki
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Yoshiko Sudo
Coarticulation and phonetic variation: a case study by Mitsuhiro Nakamura
Types of verbs that are preceded by "tekuru", "teiku", and "teiru": On the nature of the aspects of movement and state
The Restoration of the Paris Opera by Manager Olivier Aranzier (1875-1879): What the Records of the Theater and Music Yearbook Tell Us by Kaori Kobayashi
Report
The AGU Digital Access Project: Digitizing and Sharing Rare Editions Thomas W. Dabbs; Wataru Sasagawa; Naomi Tonooka
Building the AGU Environmental Humanities Forum: Toward a dialogue among humanities disciplines on the environment Masami Yuki
The genre of short texts in the public sphere: France Dhorne
About "Research on Modern Japanese History Using Databases" Kyo Komiya
Research Notes
Edmund Burke's Abolition of Slavery and Colonial Reform Haruki Inagaki
Granville Sharp's Theory of Constitutional Law: Focusing on the Analysis of Previous Research Yasuhiro Hosoguchi
Translation and commentary
Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, The Idea of the Painting Hall (Milan, 1590): Abridged translation and annotations by Mizuno Chiyo
"The Story of the Flower Dumpling Foodie" Volume 1, Transcription and Annotation by Yuka Okajima, Mizuki Oshima, and Taeko Oya
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Table of Contents for Issue No. 5 (2023)
Symposium
"The Challenge of the Humanities: On Modern Minority Cultures - Understanding the Shadows of the World from Five Perspectives"
About the Symposium Chiyo Mizuno
Greetings from Naoyuki Date
Symposium Purpose Miyuki Fukuda
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Elisabeth Hejlik and the Emancipation Movement and the Labor Movement by Haruki Inagaki
The Dreyfus Affair Isn't Over - The Ghost of "Antisemitism" Miyuki Fukuda
"After Hours" - Queer Poetic Time in Reed, Crane, and O'Hara Teppei Kuruma
Negative image of a girl's novel - Sui Ozaki's "Wandering in the Seventh Official World" by Manabu Totsuka
The Conflict of Interpretations of Robert Morris's Sight (1964) and the Bodies of Minorities by Hiromi Matsui
Q&A and discussion
paper
A Portrait of a Modern Artist, or the Loss of a Star - On Albert Camus' "Jonas" Ryosuke Yoshioka
Research Project Report
The AGU Digital Access Project Thomas W. Dabbs; Wataru Sasagawa; Naomi Tonooka
Development of the AGU Environmental Humanities Forum Masami Yuki
The genre of short texts in the public sphere: France Dhorne
A new study of the constitutional history of the 18th and 19th century British abolitionist movement by Haruki Inagaki
Research Notes
Richard Price's Theory on Freedom, Constitution, and Slavery: Focusing on His Works and Analysis of Previous Research Yasuhiro Hosoguchi
Translation and commentary
Black Feminist Text Translation Series (1): Frances Beale, "Double Jeopardy: Being Black and Woman" by Azusa Nishimoto
Summary
paper
A comparative study of the historical drama of Ochi Fukuchi: Focusing on the "Azuma Kanpai Kagaku" (The Celebration of the Eastern Mirror) by Tomohiro Nakano
Translation and commentary
"Hanadango Shokuka Monogatari" Volume 2: Transcription and annotations by Yuka Okajima, Mizuki Oshima, and Taeko Oya -
Issue 6 Table of Contents (2024)
Symposium (Record)
Cultural Exchange through Theatre by Nobuko Akiyama
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The Sacred and the Secular in Museums - The Louvre, or the "Great Chaos of the Museum" - Zenta Araki
Time perception and space-time metaphor of the deictic aspect markers "teiku" and "kuru" Jun Sawada
The Role of 'Luminary' as a Mediator between the Human and Non-Human in Diana Wynne Jones' Dogsbody Honoka Matsuki
Report
Digital Access, Digital Media, and Outreach: 2023 Report Thomas W. Dabbs; Wataru Sasagawa
Development of the AGU Environmental Humanities Forum Masami Yuki
Islamic Studies and Persian Culture in 15th Century South Asia by Fumiko Ninomiya
Summary
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Research Notes
British Museum Dakini Statue - "Enthronement" - Looking at the Honzon - Tetsuhide Tsuda
An Introduction to the Study of Eikai by Masama Sakata
Translation, transcription and annotation
Hanadango Shokuka Monogatari (The Story of the Flower Dumpling Foodie), Volume 2, Transcription and Annotation by Yuka Okajima, Mizuki Oshima, and Taeko Oya
2023 Activity Report
Symposium "Cultural Exchange through Theatre: Welcoming Mr. Benjamin Lazare and Ms. Ikuko Sawada" hosted by the Institute for Humanities, Faculty of Letters, College of Literature Aoyama Gakuin University
On Wednesday, November 15, 2023, Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Institute for Research in the Humanities hosted a symposium titled "Cultural Exchange through Theater: Welcoming Mr. Banjaman Lazar and Ms. Ikuko Sawada" at Aoyama Campus Honda Memorial International Conference Hall.
Part 1: Tracing the history of Mr. Banjaman Lazar and Ms. Ikuko Sawada as theater artists
Part 2: Demonstration of Baroque theater by Mr. Banjaman Lazar
Symposium Speakers
Shotaro Terakura (Opera critic)
◆Banjaman Lazare (Director, actor. Banjaman Lazare (Director, Actor. Decorated with the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government)
◆Ikuko Sawada (Actor, scriptwriter, director, leader of the theater company good morning No 5)
Nobuko Akiyama (Professor at Department of French Language and Literature)
Tomoko Nozawa, clavecin player and leader of Studio Trianon
She has been involved in Renaissance and Baroque operas as a basso continuo player in Japanese and European ancient music orchestras.
Greetings
Many of you attended the symposium, and both the first and second parts of the symposium were very successful. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you who attended.
2022 Activity Report
On December 7, 2022, the Institute hosted a symposium in a hyflex format entitled "The Challenge of the Humanities: Exploring Modern and Contemporary Minority Cultures - Understanding the Shadows of the World from Five Perspectives."
[Symposium speakers]
Teppei Kuruma (Associate Professor, College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University)
“After Hours”—Queer Poetic Time
Miyuki Fukuda (Associate Professor, College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University)
19th Century French Journalism: The Dreyfus Affair
Manabu Tozuka (Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Musashi University)
A negative image of a girls' novel: Sui Ozaki's "Wandering in the Seventh Official World"
Haruki Inagaki (Associate Professor, Faculty College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Minorities and the Law in the 19th Century British Empire
Hiromi Matsui (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo)
Women as Artistic Subjects and Realism
2021 Activity Report
On March 12, 2022, we held a lecture by Professor Shinichi Saeki of College of Literature at our university, entitled "The Creation of 'Gunki Monogatari'." Please refer to the PowerPoint presentation used in this valuable lecture by Professor Saeki, the founding director of the institute and a leading authority on military literature, who will be retiring this year.
2019 Activity Report
On December 21, 2019, the Institute for Research Studies and the Institute for Humanities, attached to College of Literature, jointly held a symposium entitled "The Sacred in the East and West: Opening up Comparative Cultural Studies." Traditionally, the "sacred" of the world has tended to be confined to individual research fields such as Japan, the East, and the West, or to literary studies, history, art history, or religious studies. This symposium aims to open up new perspectives in the humanities through the comparison and contrast of each culture by shedding light on the "sacred" of the world from various perspectives, such as Japanese Buddhist literature, Buddhist art, Christian art, and Islamic studies.
[Symposium speakers]
Ayako Ninomiya (Associate Professor, Department of History College of Literature of Letters, Aoyama Gakuin University University, Oriental History)
"Veneration of Muhammad: Aspects of the Sacred in Islam"
Akira Akiyama (Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, History of Western Art)
"The Agency of Icons and Sacred Objects: An Attempt at Comparative Religious Art History"
Yasuro Abe (Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku College of Literature)
"Exploring the Religious Textual Cultural Heritage of Prince Shotoku"
Kazuharu Asai (Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University, History of Japanese Art)
"The Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple as a Sacred Object: Considering its Art and Historical Significance"
