AREA Ruhr welcomes Prof. Fujihara Tatsushi as International Research Fellow

We are pleased to welcome Professor FUJIHARA Tatsushi as AREA Ruhr’s International Research Fellow in September and October 2024. Professor Fujihara, from the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University in Japan, is a renowned specialist in food and agricultural history in Germany and Japan, as well as in environmental philosophy. Among his publications are numerous monographs in Japanese, some of which have won prestigious academic awards, as well as edited volumes and articles in English (e.g. The Handbook of Environmental History in Japan).

Professor Fujihara arrived in Bochum on 17 September and was welcomed then and on the following day on the RUB campus by Prof. Dr. Katja Schmidtpott (Japanese History, OAW, RUB) and by AREA Ruhr’s Managing Directors Dr. Kerstin Lukner and Gwendolin Kleine Stegemann, M.A.

During his time as a fully funded fellow, Professor Fujihara is going to

  • hold a (closed) workshop on “Food and Agriculture in the Past, Present and Future” for our PhD and MA students (18 October)
  • give a lecture on “The History of Food and Power in Japan and Germany in the 1940s” (in cooperation with the Institute for Social Movements at RUB) (21 October, 6-8 pm). A detailed announcement will follow shortly.

Furthermore, Fujihara will also participate in a workshop on Natural Resources and Human Societies in East and West: Early Modern and Modern Environmental Histories from Japan and Germany at the Bergbau-Museum Bochum on 30 September 2024.