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VAN GOETHEM Ellen

ヴァン フーテム エレン | VAN GOETHEM Ellen
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Homepage URL  (1): http://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K004007/english.html
Research field  (4): History - Japan ,  History of thought ,  Religious studies ,  Archaeology
Research keywords  (18): reception history ,  Heian shrine ,  Shinto shrines as manifestations of the directional animals ,  Hoki naiden ,  feng shui - geomancy ,  shijin soo ,  Sakuteiki ,  inscribed wooden tablets ,  Kanmu tenno ,  Heian - Kyoto ,  宮都 ,  Black Turtle-Snake ,  White Tiger ,  Azure Dragon ,  Vermillion Bird ,  Nagaoka ,  Nara ,  Chinese-style capital cities
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (17):
  • 2019 - 2022 Reiterations of the Past: Reconstructions, Practices, and Places
  • 2017 - 2020 Heian Jingu: The Creation of a New Shrine
  • 2015 - 2019 Site Divination in Premodern East Asia
  • 2016 - 2018 A Sacred Island Set Apart: Okinoshima, World Heritage, and the Exclusion of Women in Modern Japan
  • 2016 - 2017 Kyushu University’s World Premier International Researcher Invitation Program
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Papers (20):
  • Ellen Van Goethem. The Origin of Jidai Matsuri. 2023. 10月
  • Ellen Van Goethem. Ancient Capitals, Site Selection, and Feng Shui. 2022. 91-112
  • Ancient Capitals, Site Selection, and Feng Shui. 2022. 57-69
  • Ellen VAN GOETHEM. ‘Heian Jingū: Monument or Shintō Shrine?’. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2018. 7. 1. 1-26
  • Ellen VAN GOETHEM. ‘Of Trees and Beasts: Site Selection in Premodern East Asia’. Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q). 2016. 1. 1-7
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MISC (7):
  • Ellen Van Goethem. Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital. MONUMENTA NIPPONICA. 2016. 71. 2. 394-399
  • Ellen VAN GOETHEM. Book Review: Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital (Matthew Stavros). Monumenta Nipponica. 2016. 71. 2. 318-324
  • Ellen Van Goethem. Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES. 2009. 68. 3. 988-990
  • 「えっ、専門は日本の古代史なの?!」(その1). HOSEI. 2009. 36. 3. 23
  • 「えっ、専門は日本の古代史なの?!」(その2). HOSEI. 2009. 36. 4
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Books (26):
  • 日本の都城と東アジア
    ベトナム国家大学ハノイ校・人文社会科学大学・東洋学部日本研究学科 / 国際交流基金 2022
  • Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan: The Invisible Empire
    Bloomsbury 2019 ISBN:9781350097094
  • Architecture since 3.11: New Relationships between Society and Architects
    Gakugei shuppansha 2014
  • How to Survive and Thrive in Higher Education: Practical Lessons from the Kyushu University International Faculty
    G30 Project Office Kyushu University 2014
  • Dispositifs et notions de la spatialité japonaise
    Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes 2014 ISBN:9782889150472
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Lectures and oral presentations  (52):
  • Green-Glazed Roof Tiles and Vermilion Pillars: The Legacy of the 1895 Daigokuden Reconstruction in Kyoto
    (Workshop "Absence, Presence, and Materiality: Refiguring Japanese Religious Art and Culture" 2022)
  • Jidai Matsuri: The ‘Festival of the Ages’ That Almost Never Was
    (Kyushu University Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar 2022)
  • Imitation, Deification, and Identity: Heian Jingū’s Many Facades
    (Tohoku University, Department of Global Japanese Studies 2019)
  • 海外の研究者から見た日本古代史の魅力
    (九州大学出張教室in熊本 2019)
  • Reconstructing a Palace and Building a Shrine: Heian Jingū as a Marker of National and Regional Identity
    (International Symposium “Emperor and Shrine: Commemoration, Ideology, and Identity” 2019)
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Education (5):
  • - 2005 Ghent University Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures PhD, Oriental Languages and Cultures (Japan)
  • 1996 - 1999 Ghent University Department of Psychology and Pedagogy MA, Academic Teacher Training Program, Qualified Teacher’s Degree for Secondary Education - Section 2 in Oriental Languages and Cultures
  • 1996 - 1998 Ghent University Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures MA, Japanese Language and Culture
  • 1997 - 1997 Yonsei University Korean Language Institute
  • 1994 - 1996 Ghent University Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures BA, Japanese and Classical Chinese
Professional career (3):
  • Doctor in Oriental Languages and Cultures (Ghent University)
  • Qualified Teacher for Secondary Education (Ghent University)
  • MA in Oriental Langauges and Cultures (Ghent University)
Work history (9):
  • 2011/04 - 現在 Kyushu University Faculty of Humanities Associate Professor
  • 2018/04 - 2019/03 University of California, Santa Barbara East Asia Center Visiting Scholar
  • 2011/02 - 2011/09 Ghent University Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures (Japanese) Professor (50%)
  • 2011/08 - 2011/08 Hosei University Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies Part-time lecturer
  • 2010/04 - 2011/03 Hosei University Exchange Students from Overseas Program Part-time lecturer
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Committee career (4):
  • 2018 - 2022 Arts Flanders Japan Board of Directors
  • 2018 - 2022 アーツフランダース・ジャパン 理事
  • 2014 - 2017 Flanders Center Board of Directors
  • 2014 - 2017 フランダースセンター 理事
Awards (5):
  • 2018 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar (declined)
  • 2007/01 - Japan Foundation Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship
  • 2006/02 - Canon Foundation in Europe Canon Foundation in Europe Fellowship
  • 2003/04 - MEXT MEXT research student
  • 2001/07 - Europalia Nippon Kinen Foundation Research fellowship
Association Membership(s) (12):
japARCHI - reseau de recherche et d’enseignement sur l’architecture et la ville japonaises ,  The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) ,  European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) ,  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) ,  The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) ,  European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) ,  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) ,  Mokkan Gakkai ,  Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) ,  American Academy of Religion (AAR) ,  Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) ,  JAPAN SOCIETY OF TAOISTIC RESEARCH
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