Bulletin > Volume 44 International Exchange: Reflections on the Fifth Nanzan Seminar for the Study of Japanese Religions

Graf, Tim

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The fifth Nanzan Seminar for the Study of Japanese Religions invited four young scholars affiliated with universities in Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan to present and discuss their dissertation research in Japanese. This year’s topics ranged from the ritualized expulsion of demons to women’s agency in ancient Japanese literature. Two papers examined modern and contemporary Shinto through the lens of both domestic and overseas shrines. The Seminar was held in collaboration with a JSPS Core to Core Program at Nagoya University. In sum, the fifth Nanzan Seminar showed just how important venues for exchanges in Japanese are for non-native speakers, especially if they seek future employment at a university in Japan as international scholars.