Students with Professor Schweizer at Hakozaki Shrine, 2018
View of center zone, Ito Campus 2018
Harry Schley addressing students & Professors Schweizer and Bogel at Izumiyama, Arita 2018
Professor Lazarus briefing students at Ōe before the annual Kōwakamai 幸若舞 performance
Nearing sunset at Futamigaura, coastline of Ito peninsula
Arita porcelain display at the Kyushu Ceramics Museum, 2018
Visiting Professor Bernard Scheid with students at Kamado Shrine in Daizaifu, 2018
Budoor Almurbati ('18) celebrating at Graduation
Mashimizu Zouroku providing a tour of his kiln: Gengengama, Karatsu 2018
Kyudai faculty and students with visiting Professor Scheid
Visiting Professor Bergmann with Alex Wood ('20), 2018
Nachi Falls (Kyoto-Kumano trip, 2018)
Mt. Hiko in central northern Kyushu, 2018
View of East Zone, Ito Campus 2018
Hiking a Kumano pilgrimage route (Kyoto-Kumano trip, 2018)
Professors Carter and Lazarus with Harry Schley and Alex Evans ('20) at Dejima, Nagasaki 2018
Graduating Students Jemma Gallagher and Budoor Almurbati with Professors Bogel, Lazarus, Schweizer, and Carter
Professor Kris Kersey on "Reconsidering the Eyeless Sūtra," 2018
Visiting Professor DeWitt with Priest at the Munakata Shrine, Intensive Course 2019
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, 2019
Visiting Professor DeWitt with Students on Ooshima, 2019
Shrine by the Sea on Intensive Course Trip, Ooshima, 2019
Dr. Justin Stein (Bukkyo University) Presenting on Buddhist Youth, April 2019
Street in Nishijin, 2019
Traditional Japanese Garden at Ohori Park, 2019
Street Market for Sakura Hanami, Ohori Park, 2019
Seasonal Sakura at Hatae near Campus
Prof. Schweizer with Bayu Indra (2019) in the Rurikoji Temple
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin outside of Fukuoka City Art Museum
Downtown Nakasu
Kanmon Bridge connecting Kyushu to Honshu
Dr. Jolyon Baraka Thomas (University of Pennsylvania) Presenting on Religious Freedom in Occupied Japan (2019)
Prof. Schweizer with Students at Rurikoji Temple
Sesshu's Zen Garden
Congratulations to IDOC student Arisha Satari on the publication of her chapter, "Politics of Heritage: Karatsu’s Takatori-tei as a Meiji Status Symbol, Monument of Modernity, and Symbol of Regional Identity” in the edited volume Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, ed. Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings (Brill, 2023). The chapter is based on her ongoing dissertation research.
Congratulations to Noni Stephenson (IMAP 2019)! Noni will start her PhD research on the mortuary practices of the enslaved Africans of Jamaica under British colonial rule at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Zoe Crossland and Dr. Severin Fowles.
Congratulations to Prof. David Weiss on his Kaken grant proposal! The project, titled “Japanese Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao’s Theory of Cultural Strata as a Hybrid Outcome of Scholarly Exchange between Austria and Japan,” will run through the 2027 academic year.
Congratulations to IDOC student Jan Hausmann on the publication of his article 「新宗教とその宗祖:中山身語正宗を例に」 (On New Religions and their Founders: The Case of Nakayama Shingonshōshū) in the journal Shingoshō kenkyū! The article, released in April 2023, is based on his MA thesis research with IMAP.
Congratulations to Alexander Evans (IDOC) for his selection as a Special Joint Research Fellow at the National Museum of Japanese History! Over the next year, he will conduct research on changes in the social and political space of Dazaifu during the Bakumatsu period.