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Time and Emotion in Medieval Japanese Literature

Individual Presentations

20.-22. of August 2025 at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Simone Müller: Herausforderungen beim Übersetzen zeitbezogener Metaphorik in japanischen Hoftagebüchern
Conference: 19. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag

28.-30. of May 2025 at the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Simone Müller: Temporal Realms: Shifting Perceptions of Time at the Medieval Japanese Court
Conference: Metamorphoses of Time

22.-23. of Mai 2025, Collège de France, Paris, France
Léo Messerschmid: Comment vivre? Perspectives sur le bon usage du temps dans le bouddhisme médiéval japonais
Conference: Premières assises du Réseau de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les Religions et croyances au Japon

22.-23. of Mai 2025, Collège de France, Paris, France
Carina Roth: Rêves et prémonitions pragmatiques dans les écrits de Shōgetsubō Keisei 證月坊慶政 (1189-1268)
Conference: Premières assises du Réseau de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les Religions et croyances au Japon

2.-4. of September 2024 at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Sebastian Balmes "The Spatiotemporal Structure of Medieval Tales of Origin in Shintōshū"
The 11th International Conference Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary (part of a panel organized by Berfu Sengün on "Conceptualizing Space in Japanese Literature from the Heian to the Meiji Period", Discussant: Simone Müller)

31. of Mai 2024, at the Collège de France Paris, France
Carina Rorth: “Asymmetric time: Keisei’s conversations with the Great Tengu of Mount Hira”
International workshop "Making Japanese Religions: People, Texts, and Techniques"

10.-12. of May 2024 at the University of Heidelberg
Sebastian Balmes:  "Lokale Kulte und literarische Topographie im Shintōshū"
AJR Jubiläumstagung 2024 „Religionen in Japan: regional – national – global"

8.-10. of May 2024 at the Hotel Odelya in Basel
Carina Roth: "At the Crossroads of Time: DivinaLon in Keisei’s Oracle of the Old Man of Hirasan"
Zehnte Nachwuchstagung der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft (SAG) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen (SGMOIK) / 10èmes journées de la relève de la Société Suisse-Asie et Société Suisse Moyent Orient et Civilisation Islamique (Organisation: Maurus Reinkowski)
8.-10. of May 2024 at the Hotel Odelya in Basel
Léo Messerschmid:  "Trauer, Pietät und Erwachen. Die Figur der Buddha-Mutter in den mittelalterlichen Buddha-Hagiographien Japans"
Zehnte Nachwuchstagung der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft (SAG) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen (SGMOIK) / 10èmes journées de la relève de la Société Suisse-Asie et Société Suisse Moyent Orient et Civilisation Islamique (Organisation: Maurus Reinkowski)
2. - 3. of September 2023 at Doshisha University
Sebastian Balmes: "Shintōshū no monogatari-teki engi ni okeru sakuchū jinbutsu no zōkei to kyōkai 『神道集』の物語的縁起における作中人物の造形と境界 [Characterization and Boundaries of Characters in the Narrative Origin Tales of Shintōshū]"
Conference: 2023nendo Bukkyō bungakukai taikai 2023年度 仏教文学会 大会 [2023 Conference of the Association for the Study of Buddhist Literature] (Organistaion: Bukkyō bungakukai 仏教文学会 [The Association for the Study of Buddhist Literature])
13. - 15. of August 2023 at the Institue of of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich
Léo Messerschmid: "Time and Emotion in the Hagiography of the Buddha: On the Problems and Chances of a Mediality Approach in the Study of Time and Emotions"
Conference: Mediality of Premodern Japanese Narratives – A Diachronic Perspective (Organisation: Sebastian Balmes and Sarah Rebecca Schmid)
2. - 7. of July 2023 at Yamaguchi University
Simone Müller: "Temporal Mapping and Time Measuring in Go-Fukakusa tennō shinki and Towazugatari"
Nahoko Suzuki: "Tense and Measure in the “Dream-illusion” Noh theatre Atsumori"
Conference: 18th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST)
28. of June 2023 at Ruhr University Bochum
Sebastian Balmes: "Sprachliche Markierungen von Narrativität und Fiktionalität in vormodernen japanischen Texten [Linguistic Markers of Narrativity and Fictionality in Premodern Japanese Texts]"
Conference: Ostasienwissenschaftliches Mittagsforum (Organistaion:Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften (Anna-Maria Rau))
26. of June 2023 at Gakushuin Women's College in Tokyo
Carina Roth: "Ascetic Retreats at Shō no Iwaya: Past and Present"
Conference: International Research Symposium (Organisation: Nakajima Takafumi)
13. of June 2023 at the University of Clermont-Auvergne
Carina Roth: "Hermits, Ascetics and Recluse Monks in Medieval Japan"
Conference: Research seminar in medieval sociology (“Le Moyen-Âge de Max Weber”) (Organisation: Alexis Fontbonne)
6. - 7. of May 2023 at the University of Geneva
Carina Roth: "Pragmatic Premonitions: Agency of Dreams and Oracles in Keisei’s Writings"
Conference: Comparing Chinese, Korean and Japanese Religions (Organisation: Vincent Goossaert and James Robson)
28. - 30. of April 2023 at UCLA
Sebastian Balmes: "Demarcating Medieval Characters: On the Role of Characters and Their Boundaries in Shintōshū"
Conference: Kyarachters: On the Other Side of Narrative (Organistaion: The Yanai Initiative (Michael Emmerich, Tanaka Yukari and Toeda Hirokazu))
8. - 10. of March 2023 at the University of Cologne
Sebastian Balmes: "Towards a Fictional Grammar of Early and Late Middle Japanese"
Conference: DGfS 2023 (45th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society) ,Workshop5: “Linguistic aspects of fictionality" (Organistaion: Luisa Gödeke and Sonja Zeman)