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第1回JF-GJSフェロー講演会「All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant in Texas: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia」が開催されました

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２０２３年７月１２日、第1回目の “JF-JGS Fellow Talk Series”が開催された。ダートマス大学アジア社会文化言語プログラム・准教授（日本文学・文化）シュミット堀佐知 (Sachi Schmidt-Hori)が登壇し、 “Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia: All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant（アカデミアの常識に対する常識外の考え: 奇妙な日本レストランで学んだ日本研究についてのすべて）”をタイトルにして、日本研究のグローバル視点について講演した。シュミット堀佐知は自分自身の最初の渡米経験を語り、日米アカデミアのなかで「日本研究」という学術分野が抱える知的創造に関する矛盾と不平等などについて議論した。講演に続き、「intercultural」の知的環境を構築する方法などについて、日本国内および海外からの聴衆とオープンに対話が行われた。 この講演のテーマ、問題意識はシュミット堀が編集し、8月に出版される日英併記エッセイ集『何で日本研究するの』の一環である。

On July 12th, 2023, Sachi-Schmidt Hori, Associate Professor of Literature and Culture at Dartmouth University, gave a lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia. Her talk, titled “Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia: All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant” centers on the dilemma of “Japan Studies form a global perspective.” From her personal experience when she first immigrated to the United States in the 90s, Professor Schmidt-Hori addresses the persisting hierarchy in knowledge production when it comes to Japan Studies as an academic discipline. Aside from the critique of the history of Area Studies, that is entangled with colonialism, Cold War, and imperialist ideology, Schmidt-Hori turns to the more insidious aspects of euro-centrism that is unavoidably impacting knowledge production on every aspect in the globalizing world today. The talk is also a prelude to the bi-lingual essay collection Why Study Japan?, which will come out in August. As the editor of the volume, Professor Schmidt-Hori raises a set of questions and challenges that are faced by Japan Studies researchers in academia. The goal of the volume and the talk is to open the uneasy conversation on Japan Studies as a discipline, its limits and boundaries, in order to excavate the potential of “intercultural” together with scholars and researchers around the world.

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登録日時：ThuJul2714:09:442023
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