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WEISS DAVID
 
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Faculty of Humanities Department of Philosophy Lecturer
School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation Department of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation（Concurrent）
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Philosophy（Concurrent）
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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). His current research project situates the emergence of ethnology in Japan as an academic discipline in its global historical context. Weiss teaches courses in premodern Japanese literature, intellectual history, classical Japanese (bungo and kanbun), and cultural memory studies.
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Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of thought

Degree

  • Dr. phil. （ 2017.2 University of Tuebingen ）

  • Master of Arts （ 2012.4 University of Tuebingen ）

  • Bachelor of Arts （ 2009.8 University of Tuebingen ）

Research History

  • Kyushu University Faculty of Humanities Assistant Professor 

    2021.8 - Present

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  • Kyushu University School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation Assistant Professor 

    2021.8 - Present

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  • Meiji Gakuin University Faculty of International Studies Adjunct Lecturer 

    2020.4 - 2021.9

  • Rikkyo University College of Arts, Graduate School of Arts Assistant Professor 

    2018.4 - 2021.7

  • University of Tuebingen Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Japanese Studies Assistant Professor 

    2016.10 - 2018.3

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    Country：Germany

  • University of Tuebingen Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Japanese Studies Research Assistant 

    2011.7 - 2016.4

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    Country：Germany

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Education

  • University of Tuebingen   Faculty of Humanities   Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Japanese Studies

    2006.10 - 2017.2

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    Country：Germany

  • Seoul National University   Language Education Institute, Korean Language Education Center  

    2014.3 - 2014.5

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    Country：Korea, Republic of

  • Doshisha University   Center for Japanese Language and Culture  

    2009.9 - 2011.3

  • Doshisha University   Tuebingen University Center for Japanese Language at Doshisha  

    2008.3 - 2008.6

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme： history of Japanese ethnology

    Keyword： Oka Masao, culture circle theory, Japanese ethnogenesis, concept of "Volk"

    Research period： 2023 - Present

  • Research theme： 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

    Research period： 2009.8 - 2022.1

Papers

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Books

  • Korea, Japan, and the Vienna School of Ethnology (Korea Europe Review 6) Reviewed International journal

    Juljan Biontino, Bernhard Scheid, David Weiss（Role：Joint editor）

    Korea Europe Center  2024.8    （ ISSN:2750-4832 ）

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    Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

    Open data URL： https://www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ker/issue/view/6

  • Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa: Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus

    Michael Mandelartz, David Weiss（Role：Joint editor）

    J.B. Metzler  2024.5    （ ISBN:9783662687727 ）

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    Total pages：155   Responsible for pages：5-17, 87-103   Language：German   Book type：Scholarly book

    In der neueren Debatte um das Wechselverhältnis von Religion und Politik hat Japan bislang keine Rolle gespielt; zu Unrecht, wie der vorliegende Band zeigt. Japan dürfte das einzige Land mit polytheistisch geprägter Kultur sein, das dem Imperialismus erfolgreich Widerstand entgegensetzte. Mit dem Aufstieg zur Kolonialmacht und der Erhebung des Shintoismus zur Staatsreligion stellte es die Denkmuster europäischer Überlegenheit infrage. Die polytheistische Religion sollte in diesem Transformationsprozess die historische Kontinuität des neuen Staates verbürgen. Dabei stimmen die rhetorischen Strategien überraschend genau mit dem Rückgriff der deutschen Romantik auf vermeintliche ‚Ursprünge‘ überein. Religiöse Symbolsprachen sind interpretationsoffen gegenüber politischen Deutungen, auch quer zur Unterscheidung von poly- und monotheistischen Religionen. Dies zeigt der Band in fünf Fallstudien von Germanisten und Japanologen.

    DOI： 10.1007/978-3-662-68773-4

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  • The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan's Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire

    David Weiss（Role：Sole author）

    London: Bloomsbury  2022.1    （ ISBN:9781350271180 ）

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    Total pages：viii, 245 p.   Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

    This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity. Susanoo inhabited a sinister otherworld, which came to be associated with colonial Korea. Imperialist ideologues were able to build on these interpretations of the Susanoo myth to depict Korea as a dreary realm at the margin of the Japanese empire that made the imperial metropole shine all the more brightly. At the same time, Susanoo was identified as the ancestor of the Korean people. Thus, the colonial subjects were ideologically incorporated into the homogeneous Japanese “family state.” The book situates Susanoo in Japan's cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in order to meet the religious and ideological needs of the day, continued to symbolize the margin of Japan.

    Other Link： https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/god-susanoo-and-korea-in-japans-cultural-memory-9781350271180/

  • Sources of Mythology: Ancient and Contemporary Myths

    Klaus Antoni, David Weiss（Role：Edit）

    Zürich: Lit  2014.6 

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    Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

Presentations

  • Korea's Role in Japan's Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao and his Model of Cultural Strata International conference

    David Weiss

    31st Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference  2023.6 

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    Event date： 2023.6

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Copenhagen   Country：Denmark  

  • 岡正雄と民族学における日独交流 Invited

    David Weiss

    「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  2022.3 

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    Event date： 2022.9

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：立教大学（オンライン）   Country：Japan  

  • Changing Topographies of the Alien: The Shift from ikai to ikoku in Depicting Spaces Outside Japan in Medieval Mythology International conference

    David Weiss

    16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies  2021.8 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Ghent University (online)   Country：Belgium  

  • Wu Taibo: A Confucian Japanese Founding Myth International conference

    David Weiss

    Twelfth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2018.6 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Tōhoku University, Sendai   Country：Japan  

  • 神国の境界：スサノオと日鮮同祖論 Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    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」  2019.3 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：立教大学   Country：Japan  

  • Competing Claims to Centrality: Chosŏn, Japan, and the Central Flowering International conference

    David Weiss

    29th Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference  2019.4 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Sapienza University, Rome   Country：Italy  

  • Blurring Identities: Susanoo and the Ideological Incorporation of Koreans into the Japanese Family State International conference

    David Weiss

    Third EAJS Conference in Japan  2019.9 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tsukuba   Country：Japan  

  • Auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln des japanischen Volks: Oka Masao und die Herausbildung der japanischen Ethnologie Invited

    David Weiss

    Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen  2025.1 

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    Event date： 2025.1

    Language：German   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    File： Gastvortrag.Weiß.pdf

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  • Oka Masao und die Genese des japanischen Volks Invited

    David Weiss

    Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna  2024.12 

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    Event date： 2024.12

    Language：German   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    File： poster_Weiss_lecture_2024.pdf

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  • The Vienna School in Japan: Culture Circle Theory and Its Impact on the Study of Japanese Mythology International conference

    David Weiss

    17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2024.8 

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    Event date： 2024.8

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Kokugakuin University, Tokyo   Country：Japan  

  • Mythical State Founders and their Role in the Construction of National Identities in Japan and Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu, Jinmu, and Tan’gun

    David Weiss

    26th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tōkyō  2024.7 

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    Event date： 2024.7

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  • Myth and Ethnicity: The Role of Mythology in Oka Masao’s Theory of Japanese Ethnogenesis Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    "Japan's Imperial Mythology: De/Sacralization in the Context of Exegesis, Politics and Folklore"  2023.11 

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    Event date： 2023.11

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tuebingen   Country：Germany  

  • Close Others and Techniques of Translation: Shinto's Role in Colonizing Korea International conference

    David Weiss

    17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies  2023.8 

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    Event date： 2023.8

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Ghent University   Country：Belgium  

  • Hybride Kulturschichten: Oka Masao und die Wiener Schule der Ethnologie International conference

    David Weiss

    18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag  2022.8 

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    Event date： 2022.8

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (online)   Country：Japan  

  • Comparative Mythology and Culture Circles: The Impact of German-Language Scholarship on the Study of Japanese Myth International conference

    David Weiss

    24th Asian Studies Conference Japan  2022.7 

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    Event date： 2022.7

    Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Sophia University (online)   Country：Japan  

  • Wie Amaterasus kleiner Bruder zum Pestilenzgott wurde: Susanoos Wandlung in mittelalterlichen Mythenexegesen

    David Weiss

    Symposium des Arbeitskreises Japanische Religionen (AJR)  2022.5 

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    Event date： 2022.7

    Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen (online)   Country：Germany  

  • From Universal Confucian World Order to Modern Nation State: Japanese and Korean Founding Myths, 17th to 20th Century Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Myth, Language, and Prehistory: A Celebratory Conference in Honor of Prof. Michael Witzel  2019.9 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Harvard University   Country：United States  

  • Susanoo. Ein Kulturheros aus Korea? International conference

    David Weiss

    19. Treffen der Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung  2012.5 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • Schiff, Trommel und Behälter: Mythische Vorstellungen rund um das Wort fune, gezeigt am Beispiel des Susanoo-Mythos International conference

    David Weiss

    Symposium des Arbeitskreises Japanische Religionen (AJR)  2013.5 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • Susanoo: The Japanese Trickster and His Connection to Metallurgy International conference

    David Weiss

    Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2013.5 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • A Comparative Perspective on the Struggle between Heavenly and Earthly Deities in Japanese Mythology Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop on Maths Meets Myths  2014.9 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Coventry University   Country：United Kingdom  

  • Myths as Sacred Texts Invited International conference

    Klaus Antoni, David Weiss

    First Workshop on Religion in Contemporary Japan  2014.12 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • How Comparative Mythology was Instrumentalized to Justify the Colonization of Korea International conference

    David Weiss

    Ninth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2015.7 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń   Country：Poland  

  • Verortung eines Eingangs in die japanische Unterwelt (Ne no kuni): Der Berg Kumanari International conference

    David Weiss

    16. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag  2015.8 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich   Country：Germany  

  • Vom Familienstaat zum Familienimperium: Die Rolle der Kiki-Mythen in der Konstruktion nationaler und imperialer Identität Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    3. Internationales Symposium der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen und der Rikkyō Universität  2015.11 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • From Family State to Family Empire: How the KiKi Myths were used to (Re-) Define Japan’s Relationship to the Continent International conference

    David Weiss

    First EAJS Publication Workshop  2015.11 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Free University Berlin   Country：Germany  

  • Constructing Identity through Myth: Susanowo as a Liminal Figure in Japanese-Korean Identity Discourses Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Second Workshop on Religion in Contemporary Japan  2016.2 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Manchester   Country：United Kingdom  

  • Uchi oder soto? Susanowo als liminale Figur in japanischen Identitätsdiskursen

    David Weiss

    Symposium des Arbeitskreises Japanische Religionen (AJR)  2016.5 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Doshisha University   Country：Japan  

  • From Family State to Family Empire: The Ideological Incorporation of Colonial Korea into the Japanese National Polity Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Second TUDOKU (Tübingen-Dōshisha-Korea University) Conference  2016.10 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Korea University, Seoul   Country：Korea, Republic of  

  • Kulturelle Wiege oder Kolonie? Koreabilder im Japan der Edo-Zeit Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    2016.11 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna   Country：Austria  

  • Korea and the Formation of National Identity in Tokugawa Japan Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Third Workshop on Religion in Contemporary Japan  2017.1 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • Japanese Otherworld Conceptions and How they were Put to Political Use International conference

    David Weiss

    Eleventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2017.6 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Edinburgh   Country：United Kingdom  

  • Situating Sakuhin-ron within the International Discourse on Mythological Studies International conference

    David Weiss

    15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies  2017.9 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Universidade Nova, Lisbon   Country：Portugal  

  • A Prehistory of Colonialism: Views of Korea in Tokugawa Japan Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Third TUDOKU (Tübingen-Dōshisha-Korea University) Conference “Transnational Cultures: Colonialism and Cold War in Japan and Korea”  2017.9 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Doshisha University   Country：Japan  

  • Korea und die Herausbildung eines japanischen Nationalbewusstseins: Eine geistesgeschichtliche Analyse Edo-zeitlicher Diskurse (1600–1868) International conference

    David Weiss

    Kolloquium des Forscherkreises “Deutschsprachige Japanologie im Kansai”  2017.10 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Tübingen Center for Japanese Studies in Kyōto   Country：Japan  

  • ドイツの大学で日本神話はどう教えられているか：テュービンゲン大学日本学科を中心に Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    国際研究フォーラム「日本の宗教はどう教えられているか」  2017.11 

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    Event date： 2022.3

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    Venue：國學院大學   Country：Japan  

  • Japan, Korea, and the Central Civilization: National Appropriations of the Confucian World Order, 1600–1700 Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    6th IMAP/IDOC in Japanese Humanities Symposium on Premodern Japanese Culture “Cultural Circulation in Asia – Narrative, Human, and Visual Flows”  2018.2 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Kyūshū University, Fukuoka   Country：Japan  

  • Japan, Korea, and the Central Civilization: National Appropriations of the Confucian World Order, 1600–1700 Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    International Workshop “Perceptions of the Cultural Other: Japanese Images of Korea – Korean Images of Japan”  2018.2 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Tübingen   Country：Germany  

  • When the Barbarians Claimed Centre Stage: Centre and Periphery in the Confucian World Order, 1600–1700 Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    Japanese Studies Workshop “Researching Contemporary Japanese Religions”  2018.2 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Manchester   Country：United Kingdom  

  • Am Rand des Götterlandes: Staatsshintō in Korea – Koreaner im Staatsshintō, 1910–1945 International conference

    David Weiss

    17. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag  2018.8 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Free University of Berlin   Country：Germany  

  • Die Grenzen japanischer Identität – Susanoos Rolle in der politischen Mythologie Japans Invited

    David Weiss

    2018.10 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG), Tōkyō   Country：Japan  

  • Founding Myths of the Japanese State: The Changing Perception of China and its Influence on Early Modern Japanese Identity Invited International conference

    David Weiss

    International Research Forum “Religious Cultures in Asia: Mutual Transformations through Multiple Modernities”  2018.10 

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    Event date： 2022.3

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Kokugakuin University, Tōkyō   Country：Japan  

  • Susanoo: A Culture Hero from Korea? The Connection of a Shintō God to Korea in Japanese Scholarly Literature International conference

    David Weiss

    Fifth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology  2011.10 

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    Event date： 2011.10

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：University of Strasbourg   Country：France  

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MISC

Professional Memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)

    2018.11 - Present

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  • 日本思想史学会

    2018.8 - Present

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  • European Association for Japanese Studies

    2015.10 - Present

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  • International Association for Comparative Mythology

    2011.1 - Present

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Committee Memberships

  • International Association for Comparative Mythology   Selection Committee   Foreign country

    2025.4   

  • International Association for Comparative Mythology   Selection Committee   Foreign country

    2024.6   

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    Committee type：Academic society

  • International Association for Comparative Mythology   Board of Directors   Foreign country

    2023 - Present   

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Academic Activities

  • 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo

    Role(s)： Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    2024.8

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  • International Workshop "Monotheism and Polytheism: Political Religion in Japan and Europe, 1600-1925"; Meiji University

    Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.

    2022.10

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  • Panel "Selektion, Übersetzung, Hybridisierung – japanisch-deutsche Wissenschaftskontakte, 1894–1935," 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (online)

    Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    2022.8

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  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q)

    2022.4 - Present

  • Panel "State Shintō in Korea: Discourse, Identity, Practice, and Landscape," Third EAJS Japan Conference, Tsukuba University

    Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    Juljan Biontino, David Weiss  2019.9

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  • International Workshop “Perceptions of the Cultural Other: Japanese Images of Korea – Korean Images of Japan”; University of Tübingen International contribution

    Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.

    （ Germany ） 2018.2

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Research Projects

  • Reconsideration of anthropological history before and after World War II based on archival materials

    Grant number：24K00190  2024.4 - 2027.3

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    中生 勝美, 田中 雅一, 泉水 英計, 飯田 卓, 江川 純一, 角南 聡一郎, 加賀谷 真梨, 伊藤 敦規, 飯嶋 秀治, Weiss David, 佐藤 若菜

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    Grant type：Scientific research funding

    人類学は、西洋植民地由来の学問と批判されている。そこで、人類学史を明らかにすることで、学術と社会の関係の再構築と応答の責任をはたしたい。そのため、個々の人類学者がいかに国策に関与していたのか、という観点から新たな枠組みの人類学史を構築する。近年整備されてきた研究者個人、および公開が進んでいる第二次世界大戦時期のアーカイブ資料、研究者とその遺族へのオーラル・ヒストリー、現地でのフィールドワークなどを合わせた人類学史の研究を進める。
    戦間期の人類学と政府の関係が、いかに戦後への連続性と断絶性に結び付いたかを検証し、現在問われている人類学の社会的責任について、人類学の歴史を解明することで応答する。

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  • Research of the History of Anthropology based on the Archives of the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

    2024.4 - 2027.3

    Nakao Katsumi

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    Grant type：Joint research

  • Japanese Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao's Theory of Cultural Strata as a Hybrid Outcome of Scholarly Exchange between Austria and Japan

    Grant number：23K12262  2023.4 - 2028.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Early-Career Scientists

    David Weiss

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    Authorship：Principal investigator  Grant type：Scientific research funding

    This project investigates how anthropologist Oka Masao (1898-1982) combined elements from European and Japanese reasearch traditions in his theory of Japanese ethnogenesis, thereby situating the emergence of ethnology as an academic discipline in Japan in its global historical context.

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  • "National Cultures" and Religiosity within the Prosess of Modernization in Germany and Japan

    Grant number：18KK0004  2018.10 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Fostering Joint International Research (B)

    Maeda Ryozo, Kubota Hiroshi, Fukasawa Hidetaka, Schlueter Tomoko, Koyanagi Atsushi, David Weiss

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    Various concepts of modern national culture were generated in the formation and development of the German and Japanese nation state since the 1870's. Within this process of conceptualization of national cultures, religious systems offered models for cultural orientation and political justification, and thus obtained great relevance in this social upheaval. The aim of the research project is to clarify the diverse functions of religiosity within the process of the formation of national culture concepts in Germany and Japan from a cultural studies and comparative religion perspective. A central focus of this interdisciplinary investigation lies on the transfer of the religious elements into secular discourses and movements, as well as on the transformation of originally religious concepts and elements in literature, philosophy, cultural theory, the arts, academia and sciences in Germany between 1870 and 1930 in contrast to comparable phenomena in Japan.

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Educational Activities

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

Class subject

  • Topics in Japanese Intellectual History III

    2025.10 - 2026.2   Second semester

  • Ethics and Philosophy A

    2025.10 - 2025.12   Fall quarter

  • International Humanities IIIA

    2025.10 - 2025.12   Fall quarter

  • Basic Academic Research

    2025.6 - 2025.8   Summer quarter

  • Topics in Japanese Literature IV

    2025.4 - 2025.7   First semester

  • Master's Thesis Guidance

    2025.4 - 2025.7   First semester

  • Ethics and Philosophy B

    2025.4 - 2025.6   Spring quarter

  • International Humanities IIIB

    2025.4 - 2025.6   Spring quarter

  • Topics in Japanese Literature III

    2024.10 - 2025.2   Second semester

  • Master's Thesis Guidance

    2024.10 - 2025.2   Second semester

  • Conflict and Memory (COIL course with the University of Macau and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre)

    2024.10 - 2024.12   Fall quarter

  • Ethics and Philosophy A

    2024.10 - 2024.12   Fall quarter

  • Basic Academic Research

    2024.6 - 2024.8   Summer quarter

  • Research and Professional Development

    2024.4 - 2024.7   First semester

  • Japan: A Literary History

    2024.4 - 2024.7   First semester

  • グローバル芸能論

    2024.4 - 2024.6   Spring quarter

  • Topics in Japanese Intellectual History II

    2023.10 - 2024.2   Second semester

  • Research, Readings, and Methods

    2023.10 - 2024.2   Second semester

  • Identity and Tradition: Japan in Asia (COIL course with Ritsumeikan APU)

    2023.10 - 2023.12   Fall quarter

  • 言語コミュニケーション論

    2023.10 - 2023.12   Fall quarter

  • Basic Academic Research

    2023.6 - 2023.8   Summer quarter

  • International Humanities III

    2023.4 - 2023.7   First semester

  • Research, Readings, and Methods

    2023.4 - 2023.7   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Intellectual History I

    2023.4 - 2023.7   First semester

  • グローバル芸能論

    2023.4 - 2023.6   Spring quarter

  • 言語コミュニケーション論

    2023.4 - 2023.6   Spring quarter

  • Topics in Japanese Literature II

    2022.10 - 2023.2   Second semester

  • Master's Thesis Guidance

    2022.10 - 2023.2   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Literature I

    2022.10 - 2023.2   Second semester

  • 言語コミュニケーション論

    2022.10 - 2022.12   Fall quarter

  • Culture, Heritage, and Identity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (COIL course with Ritsumeikan APU)

    2022.10 - 2022.12   Fall quarter

  • Japan: A Literary History

    2022.4 - 2022.7   Spring quarter

  • Master's Thesis Guidance

    2022.4 - 2022.7  

  • グローバル芸能論

    2022.4 - 2022.6   Spring quarter

  • 言語コミュニケーション論

    2022.4 - 2022.6   Spring quarter

  • グローバル芸能論

    2021.10 - 2021.12   Fall quarter

  • 言語コミュニケーション論

    2021.10 - 2021.12   Fall quarter

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FD Participation

  • 2022.4   Role：Participation   Title：令和４年度 第１回全学ＦＤ（新任教員の研修）The 1st All-University FD (training for new faculty members) in FY2022

    Organizer：University-wide

Outline of Social Contribution and International Cooperation 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.

Social Activities

  • Die Grenzen japanischer Identität – Susanoos Rolle in der politischen Mythologie Japans（日本アイデンティティの境界—日本の政治的神話におけるスサノオの役割） 在日ドイツ人を対象とした公開講演

    公益社団法人オーアーゲー・ドイツ東洋文化研究協会  ドイツ文化会館　東京　赤坂  2018.10

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    Audience：General,　Scientific,　Company,　Civic organization,　Governmental agency

    Type：Lecture

Media Coverage

  • A Discussion on The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire Internet

    New Books Network  https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-god-susanoo-and-korea-in-japans-cultural-memory  2023.3

  • "Bei der Geburt Shintoist, beim Tod Buddhist: das Zusammenwirken von Shinto und Buddhismus in Japans Geschichte und Gegenwart"（生まれた時は神道、死ぬときは仏教—日本の歴史と現在における神道と仏教のやりとり） 神道と仏教の関係史を、日本文化に関心を持つドイツ人一般読者に向けて簡単に説明する記事を載せた。 Newspaper, magazine

    EKO-Blätter  2021.12

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    "Bei der Geburt Shintoist, beim Tod Buddhist: das Zusammenwirken von Shinto und Buddhismus in Japans Geschichte und Gegenwart"（生まれた時は神道、死ぬときは仏教—日本の歴史と現在における神道と仏教のやりとり）
    神道と仏教の関係史を、日本文化に関心を持つドイツ人一般読者に向けて簡単に説明する記事を載せた。

Acceptance of Foreign Researchers, etc.

  • Acceptance period： 2025.1 - 2027.1   （Period）：1 month or more

    Nationality：Switzerland

    Business entity：Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • テュービンゲン大学

    Acceptance period： 2023.9   （Period）：2weeks to less than 1 month

    Nationality：Germany

  • テュービンゲン大学

    Acceptance period： 2023.8 - 2023.10   （Period）：1 month or more

    Nationality：Germany

    Business entity：Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • テュービンゲン大学

    Acceptance period： 2023.8 - 2023.10   （Period）：1 month or more

    Nationality：Germany

    Business entity：Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

Travel Abroad

  • 2024.12 - 2025.1

    Staying countory name 1：Austria   Staying institution name 1：オーストリア科学アカデミー

    Staying countory name 2：Germany   Staying institution name 2：テュービンゲン大学

    Staying institution name 3：アントロポス研究所

  • 2023.11 - 2023.12

    Staying countory name 1：Germany   Staying institution name 1：テュービンゲン大学

  • 2023.8 - 2023.9

    Staying countory name 1：Belgium   Staying institution name 1：ゲント大学

    Staying countory name 2：Germany   Staying institution name 2：テュービンゲン大学

  • 2023.6

    Staying countory name 1：Denmark   Staying institution name 1：コペンハーゲン大学