People
Dr. Graham Eatough - School of Culture and Creative Arts, U. Glasgow
Graham Eatough is one of Scotland’s leading artists working in theatre, visual art and film. He was Artistic Director of Suspect Culture theatre company from 1996 to 2009 establishing the company as one of the UK’s most innovative groups presenting new work around the world. Since 2007 Graham has worked extensively within the visual arts exploring an interdisciplinary approach to theatricality and performance in collaboration with leading artists such as Graham Fagen, Simon Starling and Stephen Sutcliffe. In theatre, Graham has worked extensively with the National Theatre of Scotland over recent years writing and directing How To Act, a contemporary Greek tragedy set in a theatre masterclass, and creating an adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s book about autism, The Reason I Jump, staged in a specially designed outdoor maze in Glasgow’s West End. In 2015 he directed Lanark: A Life in Three Acts for Edinburgh International Festival and Citizens Theatre which he created with long-time collaborator, the writer David Greig.
Dr. Ramona Fotiade - School of Modern Languages & Cultures, U. Glasgow
Dr Fotiade's research profile spans across three inter-related areas of investigation in Twentieth-Century Studies: avant-garde literary movements, philosophy and visual culture. She is the Co-Director of the Arts Lab theme Islands in the Global Age, which explores the geopoetic dimension of the landscapes we inhabit and seeks to provide creative solutions to global challenges through trans-disciplinary partnerships with archipelagic communities and researchers from Scotland, Europe and Japan. In 2019 she was the beneficiary of a JSPS Visiting Fellowship at Waseda University (Tokyo), and has since played a leading role in building strategic partnerships with Waseda and with Kyushu University. During the Japan-UK Year of Culture (2019-2020), Dr Fotiade organised several events on Franco-Japanese cultural exchanges with Scotland in partnership with the Alliance française de Glasgow.
Dr. Yuko Ishii - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kyudai
Her research field is modern art and the historical avant-garde, with particular emphasis on surrealist art in the 20th century. In 2014, she published a book that focused on the works of Max Ernst and his Collage. In 2019, The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism was published from Bloomsbury, to which she contributed articles on surrealism in Japan. Currently, she is engaged in a comparative study of the reception and development of surrealism both in the U.K. and Japan in the interwar period by investigating their international exhibitions and curatorial practice.
Dr. Daryl Jamieson - Department of Communication Design Science at Kyushu University
Dr Jamieson is principally a composer who works with classical and Japanese instruments, sometimes in combination with field recordings. His research is centred around the aesthetics of nō (especially Konparu Zenchiku) and the constellation of philosophical and religious ideas that fed into the aesthetics of nō, as well as contemporary Japanese philosophy and aesthetics which critically engages with that tradition (especially Ueda Shizuteru). This research leads to outputs in both aesthetics and composition, both of which attempt to answer the question 'how can experimental music (or music theatre) be meaningful in the present (ie. the Anthropocene)?’ by employing interpretive frames which privilege Japanese philosophy and aesthetics over western discourses. http://daryljamieson.com/en/research.html
Dr. Konstantinos Kontis - Dean of Global Engagement, U. Glasgow.
Professor Kontis is a world-leading authority in aerospace engineering including integrated wing technologies, air-transport systems and space access, and multi-disciplinary applications of aerodynamics, shock physics, wind tunnel testing, flow control and diagnostics. He has published more than 284 articles including 112 in journals, 6 book chapters, and 2 books including an edited two volume compendium on Shock Waves published by Springer. His publications embrace both scientific fundamental research and practical engineering applications. His conference papers are regularly invited to appear in the special issues of prestigious journals. He has had continuous EPSRC funding since 2001. Other sources of funding: Royal Society, EU, Nuffield Foundation, USAF, USNavy, JSPS, and industry. He has raised over £13.5M in external funding including over 65 separate collaborative projects with industrial partners, testament to the industrial applicability of his work. The new methodologies developed are now being adopted by industry and universities based worldwide. Since 1998, Kontis has given 60 invited presentations and keynote lectures to peer-reviewed conferences and international Advanced Schools in the USA, Europe, India, China, and Japan. He owes his formal education to two universities: University of Bristol (BEng), and Cranfield University (MSc and PhD). He can speak Greek and Japanese.
Prof. Kontis visited Kyushu University, and discussed promoting research and education collaboration projects with IMAP to Professor. Anton Schweizer, and Dr. Yu YANG (IMAP, Kyushu University), as well as general collaboration with Professor. Jan Lauwereyns (Vice-President for International Affairs, Kyudai) and Professor Natalie Konomi (Professor, Global Strategies Office, Kyudai)
Dr. Kuriyama Hitoshi - Faculty of Design, Kyudai
He specialises in contemporary art. “What is notion of nothingness (mu)?” In order to search for a solution to this tremendous question, he sublimates his interest in materials and natural phenomena such as light, sound, water and gas into experimental artistic expression by deepening and developing his knowledge of diverse fields such as physics, engineering, biology and philosophy while vigorously absorbing knowledge from these fields. Complete nothingness cannot exist in this world in which we live. Even in events that seem like nothing, where nothing exists at all, there is something that exists. Furthermore, it has the potential to give rise to the next action. On the other hand, if it does exist but no one recognises it, it is treated as nothing. He develops a multifaceted expression that focused on the fluctuation between nothingness and existence in relation to physics and consciousness.
Dr. Anton Schweizer - IMAP, Kyudai
“Before coming to Kyudai I taught at universities in Germany (Heidelberg) and the US (NYU, Tulane). I presently work on two projects, one about courtesan culture in early modern Japan (pleasure districts, ageya architecture, costumes, interior decoration and objects) and the other on exchanges of material and visual cultures between East Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the First Global Age (“nanban” and “kōmō” styles in lacquer, metalwork, textiles, armor; export and import wares; pictorial imagination of the other; “chinoiserie” in Europe and “ikoku shumi” in Japan).”
Dr. Gloria Yu Yang - IMAP, Kyudai
Yang’s research focuses on architecture and urbanism in modern Japan, particularly on the exchange of people, materials, and ideas within the Japanese empire during the first half of the twentieth century. Her current project examines Japanese architectural practice and urban culture in colonial Manchuria (1905-1945). Her broader interests include urban development of modern Japan, colonial modernity, photography and visual culture of the Japanese empire. Yang teaches courses in modern Japanese art and architecture, and spatial configuration of modern East Asia.
