Kyushu University [David Weiss (Lecturer) Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy]

David Weiss’s research focuses on the history of ideas, especially the mythology of ancient Japan and its function in Japan’s cultural memory, including its utilization in modern nation-building and in justifying colonial rule. More broadly, he is interested in the intercultural transfer of ideas (especially within the Sinosphere) and questions of identity formation (perceptions of self and other). Weiss teaches courses in premodern Japanese literature, cultural memory, and global performance theory.

Research

Research Interests

My research focuses on the history of ideas, especially the mythology of ancient Japan and its function in Japan’s cultural memory, including its utilization in modern nation-building and in justifying colonial rule. More broadly, I am interested in the intercultural transfer of ideas (especially within the Sinosphere), questions of identity formation (perceptions of self and other), the history of Japanese-Korean relations (especially Japanese perceptions of Korea), and the history of Shintō (especially early modern Confucian Shintō).
keyword : history of ideas, mythology and its reception, history of Japanese-Korean relations, history of Shinto, cultural memory
2009.08～2022.01.

Academic Activities

Books

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1.	David Weiss, The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan's Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire, London: Bloomsbury, 2022.01, [URL].

Reports

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1.	David Weiss, Book Review: Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC–AD 600. By Song-nai Rhee and C. Melvin Aikens, with Gina L. Barnes. Archaeopress Publishing, 2021., Journal of Japanese Studies 49/2, 10.1353/jjs.2023.a903472, 2023.08, [URL].
2.	David Weiss, Book Review: Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan, eds. Stefan Köck, Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia, and Bernhard Scheid (Bloomsbury, 2021), OAG Notizen 12/2021, 2021.12.

Papers

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1.	David Weiss, 日本国家のための儒学的建国神話: 呉泰伯説話, 前田良三編『彷徨する宗教性と国民諸文化：近代化する日独社会における神話・宗教の諸相』勉誠社, 13-29, 2024.02, [URL].
2.	David Weiss, Slaying the Serpent: Comparative Mythological Perspectives on Susanoo's Dragon Fight, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University, https://doi.org/10.5109/1916286, 3, 1-20, 2018.03, [URL].

Presentations

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1.	David Weiss, Korea's Role in Japan's Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao and his Model of Cultural Strata, 31st Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, 2023.06.
2.	David Weiss, 岡正雄と民族学における日独交流, 「日独近代化における〈国民文化〉と宗教性」 2021年（令和3年）度研究会, 2022.03.
3.	David Weiss, Changing Topographies of the Alien: The Shift from ikai to ikoku in Depicting Spaces Outside Japan in Medieval Mythology, 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, 2021.08.
4.	David Weiss, Blurring Identities: Susanoo and the Ideological Incorporation of Koreans into the Japanese Family State, Third EAJS Conference in Japan, 2019.09.
5.	David Weiss, Competing Claims to Centrality: Chosŏn, Japan, and the Central Flowering, 29th Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, 2019.04.
6.	David Weiss, 神国の境界：スサノオと日鮮同祖論, 第2 回国際ワークショップ「諸〈国⺠⽂化〉―国際的⽂脈における⽇独の視点」, 2019.03.
7.	David Weiss, Wu Taibo: A Confucian Japanese Founding Myth, Twelfth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, 2018.06.

Educational

Educational Activities

I teach courses on premodern Japanese literature, cultural memory, and global performance theory.

Social

Professional and Outreach Activities

In order to reach a general audience with my research, I frequently give public lectures and publish articles in journals addressed to a wider audience..

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researchmap profile .

https://kyushu-u.academia.edu/DavidWeiss
open access publications for download .