Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Andreas Niehaus

Email: andreas.niehaus@ugent.be

Professional background

2025

• Appointed student ombudsman for language programs

2024

• Appointed Chair PhD commissions for the Institutes of Slavonic Studies and African Studies 

2023

• Elected president of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS); 2023-2026
• Appointed Chair PhD commissions Department Languages and Cultures for Slavonic Studies

2022

• Promotion to senior full professor (gewoon hoogleraar)
• Appointment Head Environmental Commission (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy); 2022-2026
• Member steering committee East Asia Platform

2020-2021

• Nothing special, but lots of birdwatching.

2019-  

• Founder and Speaker of the BOCULT Research Centre

2017-2023

• Member of the EAJS Council as local organizer of the 2020/23 EAJS Conference in Ghent 

2015-2021

• Head of International Office Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

2015-

• Appointed Collaborative Professor Kanazawa University

2014

Promotion to full professor (hoogleraar)

2013

• Ghent University Minerva Award for excellence in teaching

2012-2018

• Head of the Department Cultures and Languages (formed in 2012, about 110 staff members)

2011

• Adjunct Professor for Japanese at the University of Eastern Finland

2010-2012

• Head of the Department of South and East Asian Cultures and Languages
• until 2012 speaker research group: Culture in Perspective: Identity – Historical Consciousness ‑ Modernity (http://www.southandeastasia.ugent.be/index.php?id=169&type=content)

2010

• Ghent University Faculty of Arts Award for excellence in teaching (5000 Euro)

2007

• Tenured position (associate professor) at Ghent University

2004

• Appointment as “docent” (assistant professor) at Ghent University, Head of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Language

2003-2004

• Academic assistant at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Japanese Studies, Cologne

2002

• Finishing doctoral thesis. Title: Leben und Werk Kanō Jigorōs. Ein Forschungsbeitrag zur Leibeserziehung und zum Sport in Japan

1998-1999

• One year visiting scholar (hōmon kenkyūin) at Keio University, supporting professor: Komuro Masamichi; 6 months supported by a DAAD-scholarship

1997

• Doctoral course at Cologne University

1997

• University graduation. M.A. at Cologne University

Selected academic lectures and talks

2026

Ghent, Japanese and Belgian Research on Japan: Perspectives from Tohoku University and Ghent University. Lecture: Emotional, Social and Political Spaces: Food on the Move in Hayashi Fumiko’s travelogue Santō Ryokōki (1933) (20.3.)

2025

• Boston, American Academy of Religion (AAR), Roundtable: East Asian Self-Cultivation Practices in Transnational and Diasporic Perspectives. Panel contribution: Self-Cultivation in Judo: Politics of Cultural Authority and Ownership in a Transnational Context (23.11.)
• Münster, Olympic Study Day, Willibald Gebhardt Institut (WGI) and Universität Münster, keynote lecture: The Olympic Movement from the Perspective of Asia. (26.6.)
• Ghent, Judo Vlaanderen (Raad van Hogere Graden), lecture: Kodokan judo, de kroniek van een sociaal en pedagogisch project (25.5.)
• Brussel, Universitaire Stichting, lecture: Debunking the Myth of a Homogeneous Society: Diversity in Modern Japan? (1.4.)

• Ghent, Ghent University, workshop Studying Food and Japan: A ROUNDTABLE ON NEW RESEARCH AND APPROACHES Lecture Commensality, Loneliness and Home: Food on the Move in Hayashi Fumiko’s Santō Ryokōki. (7.3)

• Ghent, International workshop Encounters between Japanese Budo and Western Combative Sports: Cultural Confrontation and Exchange through Interdisciplinary Matches, lecture: 体現された国家: 1921年の靖国神社におけるレスリングと講道館柔道の試合 (Embodied Nations: Catch-as Catch-Can Wrestling and Kōdōkan judo Fights at the Yasukuni Shrine in 1921) (6.3.)

2024

• Ghent, Ghent University, international conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity. Lecture: 

  Pan-Asianism and Martial Arts – aikidō and jūdō between Egalitarian Internationalism and Imperialist Asianism (29.10.)

• Koblenz, Universität Koblenz, Lecture: Commensality and Nostalgia in Hayashi Fumiko's Travelogue Santō Ryokōki (18.6.)
• Ghent, Public lecture, fundraiser DreamCATchers: De Kat in Japan: Van spoken, huisdieren en station managers. (14.5.)
• Bayreuth, Universität Bayreuth, 11th Annual Conference of the dvs-commissionon on Martial Arts and Combat Sports (13-15.3.), Keynote Lecture: Becoming What? Education in Early Kodokan Judo, Ethics, and the Transmission of Knowledge. (13.3.), on invitation
• Rome , Sapienza University. Hasekura League Conference: Embodied Discourse, Embodied Practice: The Body as Text, Medium, and Testimony in Japan .  (25.1.-26.1). Lecture “Performing modernities in the ring: The 1921 MMA matches between wrestling and Kōdōkan judo as mirror of contesting national bodies. Together with Yabu Kotaro  (26.1.)

2023

• Joensuu, University of Eastern Finland. The First Karelian International Conference of Japanese Literature and Culture (1.12-2.12). Keynote lecture “A Pissing Horse, Next to My Pillow”: Thoughts on Traveling as embodied practice in Edo-period travel literature. On invitation (1.12)
• Münster, University of Münster: International Conference: Sport Politics in Germany and Korea. Lecture: "Culture and History of Sports in Japan: Korean and Japanese Sports and the Shadow of the Past." On invitation (6.6).

2022

• Kyoto, Nichibunken evening seminar: Theories of Embodiment in Japan: Introducing New Research from Ghent University, together with Anna Andreeva (8.12.)
• Ghent, GUM (Ghent University Museum). Roundtable: LIDwoord - Over fallus. (14.6)

• Liège: "Medical Knowledge, Magic Practice and Images of the Body in 18th and 19th Century Japan"? (27.4.)
• Hokkaido University Global Career Design Program, Online Lecture: Eating and Sexual Desires - Gendered Ideas and Practicesof the Body in Edo Japan. (3.3.)
• Online Forum Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences (Subsection sociology). Lecture: "Challenging Olympic Narratives, or 'Same Same but Different': Revisiting the Tokyo Olympics 2020/2021". On invitation (22.2.)
• Online symposium Nichibunken 21.1.-23.3. Lecture: "In-Between: Experiences and Challenges of Organizing the International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) at Ghent University in Times of Crisis and Transition." On invitation (23.1.)

2021

• Online workshop: Post-Olympic Japan: Renewal or Failure?, Zürich, Hamburg (7.-8.10.), Presentation: "'Recovery flame': The Tokyo 2020/21 Olympic Torch Relay as Media Event." (8.10.)
• 16. EAJS International Conference (24.-28. August), Panel: Exploring the Interplay between Religion and Sport in Japan: "Ritual, Sacred Space and the Construction Identity. Lecture: The Aikido of Ueshiba Morihei as Ritual Practice to Reconstruct the World". (28.8.)
• Taiikushi Gakkai, 10th Confernce of the Japan Society of the History of Physical Education and Sport, Lecture: 研究方法セミナー片淵報告に対するコメント: フーコーの系譜学と統治性の概念からみた江戸時代の養生と身体. On invitation (19.6.)
• Belgium Olympic and Interfederal Committee, Olympic Coaching Platform. Online Lecture: "Japan and the 2021 Pandemic Games". (21.5.)
• Kyushu University, IMAP Public Lecture Series: “Cleansing the universe” (uchû no misogi): Religious nationalism and spiritual training in pre-war aikidô. on invitation (17.2.)

2020

• Kyoto, Nichibunken, ヨーロッパ日本研究学術交流会議, 緊急会議　After/With コロナの「国際日本研究」の展開とコンソーシアムの意義.  Lecture面目を改める? 新型コロナワイラスとベルギーにおける日本学の現在と将来.  On invitation (12.12.)

2019

• Ghent, International Workshop Challenging Olympic Narratives in Japan (19.-20.12.), presentation: The Uncanny Road to the Deep North: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Civil Protest, and the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
• Brussel, Belgium Olympic Committee, Presentation: “Japan, MITO, de Olympische Spelen en Tokyo 2020”,  (18.12.).
• Jeju (Korea), International Academic Conference for the Promotion of Traditional Martial Arts. Populariztion and Globalization of Traditional Martial Arts. Lecture: Martial Arts and Popular Culture: Promoting Judo trough Manga. (1-2.11.) (on invitation)
• Canterbury, Kent University, Kent-Ghent Asian Studies Day, Presentation: Health, Well-Being and the Body in the Yôjôkun. (18.5.) 
• Ghent, International Workshop: Japanese body culture and sport in textual and visual representations (20.-21.2.). Presentation: “Between Resting and Moving: Ideas of the body in the Yôjôkun” (20.2.)
• Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University: Workshop: Sport and Religion in Japan. Paper: The Aikido of Ueshiba Morihei as Ritual Practice to Reconstruct the World. (2.3.) (on invitation)

2018

• Chungju, International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagment (ICM, UNESCO). Seminar: Comtemproary meaning and roles of martial arts Lecture: Karate as cultural practice between Olympic Sport and Intangible Cultural Heritage. (30.11.) (on invitation)
• Iksan, Wonkwang University. Conference: The 30th International Sport Science Congress (KAHPERD). In Commemoration of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Lecture: Sites of Memory: The Olympic Games, Memory and Nationhood. (11.10.) (on invitation)
• Koblenz, Universität Koblenz. Conference: Traveling Bodies. Lecture: Ruling Bodies on the Move: Traveling Daimyô in Edo-Period Japan. (6.7.) (on invitation)
• Hofstade, Sportimonium. MAiSI workshop: Development & Peace: Sport across cultures and across times. Lecture: Sport is about war, but …  Judo and swimming and the rationale of agonism". (23.5.)
• Ghent, Ghent University. Conference: International Hasekura League Conference. 3.11: Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination. Lecture: The Trauma of Being Abroad: Diaspora and Catastrophe. (12.3.)

2017

• Ghent, 3. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft: "Bodies in Motion". Lecture: Move It! – Body, Health and Ideology in Kaibara Ekiken’s Yôjôkun 養生訓 (1713)
• Osaka, Kansai Daigaku, Annual Conference Japanese Academy of Budo (Budo Gakkai), Lecture: Popularizing judo through manga: “Tanoshimi nagara jûdô no rekishi ga manaberu” (7.9.), on invitation.
• Kanazawa Daigaku, Official delegation of the City of Ghent; Lecture:しかっり節制せい！江戸時代の日本における食事規制と食えらび」(Control Yourself, Man! - Food Regulations and Food Choices in Edo-period Japan). (9.6.)
• Ghent, Het gezonde (mannelijke) lichaam opvoeden in vroegmodern Japan. Lezing in de context van de cursus Gendergeschiedenis. (15.5.)
• Bath, Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution, Symposium: New Research on Martial Arts. Presentation: Enlightening the World: Narrating and (Re)Presenting the Life of Kano Jigoro and Ueshiba Morihei in Manga. ( 3.5.) Link
• Sendai, Tohoku Daigaku: Hasekura League Symposium "Knowlege and Arts on the Move". Presentation: Self-Discipline and Moderation: Kanô Jigorô's concept of Seiryoku Zenyô Jita Kyôei as Applied Ethics. (14.-15.2.); on invitation

2016

• Merelbeke, Stadsbibliotheek, Murakami Haruki en de hedendaagse Japanse Literatuur (9.12.). Samen met Luk Van Haute.
• Tokyo, Meiji Jingu, Olympic Legacies: Wanted and Unwanted. Conference Olympic Legacies: From Antwerp (1920)-Tokyo (2020). (12.10.)
• Cheongju, Korea, World Martial Arts Conference, Lecture: The future of judo between sport, mixed martial arts and education, (2.9.-3.9.); on invitation Link
• Ghent, Ghent University, Brown Bag Seminars. Lecture: "Food as Medicine in Edo-period Japan" (1.6.) Link
• Liège, Université de Liège. Lecture: Food, Body and Ideology in the Edo-period, or How to Become a Loyal Retainer by Making the Right Food Choices. (4.5.); on invitation
• Oslo, University of Oslo, Conference: Visualization of Japanese History. (10.-11.3.). Lecture: "Narrative, Narration and Historical (Re)Presentation in Biographical Manga: “Jûdô no rekishi – Kanô Jigorô no shôgai” (1987) and “Ueshiba monogatari” (2000)" (10.3.)
• Ghent, Ghent University: Conferentie: Hokudaidays: Connecting Japan and Belgium. Panel: Food, Risk and Health. Lecture: "'Sickness enters through the mouth': Health and Food Regulations in the Edo-period" (1.3.)
• Koksijde: Cultureel Centrum Casino, lecture series "Korea en Japan: meer dan een geschiedenis van conflict en coöperatie" together with Tine Walravens. 1. Korea als bakermat van de Japanse cultuur? (15.2.), 2. Koreaans-Japanse conflicten tussen de 13de en 16de eeuw (22.2.), 3. Internationale relaties Japan-Korea: stand van zaken (29.2.) 

2015

• Vienna, University of Vienna: "One should not pee or defecate when facing a shrine. Body and Performance in the Yôjôkun"  (10.12.); on invitation
•  Ann Arbor, University of Michigan: “‘Eating ideas’: Body, Food and Ideology in the Yôjôkun (1713)” Conference: Comparative perspectives on body materiality and structure in the history of Sinitic and East Asian medicines. 2-4 October (3.10.) (on invitation)
• Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. University of Illinois: "'Miwataseba' - Sensual Attentiveness in Early Modern bugei treatises. The 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies." (9.10.)
• Brussels: "Healthy food: Ideologizing Edo-period cuisine in the Yôjôkun". International Conference: Emotionalizing the Nation: Conflicting Food Identities in Japan. Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels, 2.7. Link

2014

• Koblenz: Universität Koblenz. Projektwoche "Was wir lesen sollen. Kanon und literarische Wertung am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts" im Rahmen der Landesforschungsinitiative „Kulturelle Orientierung und normative Bindung“. Lecture: Identität und Nation: Literarischer Kanon in Japan, 13.11. (on invitation)
• Gent: Universiteit Gent. Lezingreeks wetenschappelijke nascholing "Korea en Japan: meer dan een geschiedenis van conflict en coöperatie"; together with Tine Walravens. Lectures: Korea als bakermat van de Japanse cultuur? (11.2.) en Koreaans-Japanse conflicten tussen de 13de en 16de eeuw (18.2.)  Link

2013

• Düsseldorf: Universität Düsseldorf. International Conference, 29-30 november: "Lived Traditionalism: Japanese Traditions beyond Invention." Lecture:  Roughing up the Gentle: Challenging Judo Tradition by Humour, 29.11. (on invitation)
• Köln: Universität zu Köln. Internationales Kolleg Morphomata: Reinventing the “Invention of Tradition”? - Indigenous Pasts and the Roman Present, 14.-15.11.2013. Lecture: The Political Dimension of Performing Japanese Tradition, 14.11. (on invitation)
• Köln: Deutscher Judo Bund: Judo Festival (60 Jahre Deutscher Judo Bund), 3.-6.10. Lecture: Zur Rolle Kanô Jigorôs im Judo - Ist Judo Erziehung oder Sport?, 5.6. (on invitation)
• Münster: Universität Münster. International Conference Marie Curie, 22-24 september. Lecture: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato: the Case of Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium. 24 september. together with Tine Walravens.
• Koblenz: Universität Koblenz. Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Lecture: Die Katastrophe und die Neuen Medien: Die Reaktion der japanischen Gemeinschaft in Belgien auf die dreifach Katastrophe von 2011. 17 juli 2013. (on invitation)
• Cambridge, Cambridge University (Needham Research Institute): Workshop: Shifts in time measurement, time perception and time use in Japan from the pre-modern to the modern era. Lecture: Timing equality: Sport competitions in Modern Japan and the question of enlightenment. 24 juni 2013.
• Leiden: International Workshop organized by Leiden University Institute for Philosophy: Conflict and Agonism in Nietzsche and Beyond. Lecture: “Now Japan has Completely Conquered the World. Nippon Banzai! Japanese Identity and Political Conflict in the 1932 Olympic Games”, 28 maart 2013. (on invitation)
• Boekarest: The Third International Conference on Japanese Studies: The Quest for Modernity in Japan, Lecture: Competing Bodies: Modernizing the Japanese Body through Sport. 2-4 maart 2013. (on invitation)

2012

• Vercelli: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Conferentie: Judo, una prospettiva sull'educazione. Lecture: From the ashes - the rise of judo in the context of the political and social crisis in the Meiji-period, 19-21 oktober 2012. (op uitnodiging) (LINK)
• Koblenz, Universität Koblenz, Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Lecture: Sankin kôtai: Hochherrschaftliches Reisen auf der Tôkaidô-Route im Japan der Frühmoderne, 27 juni 2012. (op uitnodiging)
• Münster, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Sporthistorisches Kolloquium, Lecture: Kanô Jigorô und der Eintritt Japans in die olympische Bewegung, 14 juni 2012. (on invitation)
• Joensuu, University of Eastern Finland, Lecture: Creating Identity through Sport: Japan in the Olympics during the Early 20th Century. 9 maart 2012. (Erasmus)
• Joensuu, University of Eastern Finland, Lecture: "Seeing Bones": Envisioning the Body in Edo-period Japan. 8 maart 2012. (Erasmus)
• Köln, Universität Köln, public lecture: Haar Machen. Überlegungen zu einer praxisorientierten Kulturwissenschaft am Beispiel des Haares in der japanischen Kultur. 28 januari (on invitation)

2011

• Koblenz, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Seminar: Tier-Bilder (Menschen-Bilder?) in der Literatur. Lecture: Der Vogel als Motiv in der japanischen waka Dichtung, 21 december 2011. (on invitation)
• Vercelli: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Conferentie: Thought and Action: A Paradigm for Education, 21-23 october 2011. Lecture: The politics of moral education in Japan during the Meiji-period and their impact on physical education. (on invitation) link
• Otzenhausen: European Academy, European Fall Academy, September 2011. Lecture: Constructing the Other: Japan and Europe. (on invitation)
• Ghent: International Workshop September 2011. "You are What You Eat": 'Feeding Identities' in Asia. Lecture: Disciplining Desire: Attaining Long Life through Taoist Food Regulations in Early Modern Japan.
• Cologne: Cologne University, Juli 2011. Ringvorlesung: Äußere Übel und innere Begierden: Taoistische und konfuzianische Körperbilder im frühmodernen Japan. (Erasmus)

2010

• Vienna: University of Vienna, November 2010. Ringvorlesung: Entwicklung und Internationalisierung des Judo. (on invitation)
• Vercelli: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, 22-24 october 2010. Conferentie: Educatione e Sport: il caso di judo. Lecture: Kanô Jigorô - Una vita come Educatore (di fisica). (on invitation) 1. link  2. film link
• Tôkyô: Tsukuba Universiteit, Tokyo Kokusai Fôramu, Juni 2010. Conferentie: Kanô Jigorô tanjô 150 shûnen kinen kokusai shinpojiumu. Lecture: Kindai shakai to budô. (on invitation) link 1 en link 
• Oldenburg: 8. Offener Deutscher Kata Lehrgang, Oldenburg, Februari 2010: Anmerkungen zur frühen Phase der Entwicklung des jûdô (on invitation)

2009

• Tôkyô: Hōsei Universiteit, Dezember 2009. Lecture: Pro patria est dum ludere videmur: Japan and the Olympic Movement. (on invitation)
• Tôkyô: Hōsei University, November 2009. Lecture: The Other(s): Japan in Western Perspective. (on invitation)
• Halle: September 2009: 14. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag. Lecture: Schwimmen in der Taishô- und frühen Shôwa-Periode im Kontext kollektiver und nationaler Identitätsbildung.
• Brussel: Maart 2009: Royal Flemish Academy. Conferentie: Remember the Glory Days of the Nation: Sport as lieu de mémoire in Japan. Lecture: Swimming into Memory: The Los Angeles Olympics (1932) as Japanese Lieu de Mémoire.

2008

• Yale: Oktober 2008: Yale Universiteit. Conferentie: The Olympics in East Asia. Globalism, Nationalism, and Regionalism on the Center Stage of World Sports. Lezing: "Team 'Gambare Nippon!'" - Olympic Education in Japan. (on invitation)
• Kyoto: Juli 2008: 5th ISSA World Congress (International Sociology of Sport Society). Kyoto Universiteit. Lezing: Swimming for Identity, or National Identity and Swimming in Modern Japan (1868-1932).
• Lippstadt: Mei 2008: Stadtbücherei Lippstadt. Das Judo des Kanô Jigorô: Geschichte und Philosophie. (on inivitation)
• Hong Kong: Maart 2008: Universiteit Hong Kong. Conferentie: The Olympics in East Asia. Globalism, Nationalism, and Regionalism on the Center Stage of World Sports. Lezing: Translating culture, or how judo became Olympic in 1964. (on invitation)
• Düsseldorf: Februari 2008: Universiteit Düsseldorf. Lezing: Konstruiertes Leben: Autobiographie und Biographie Kano Jigoros.

2007

• Cologne: November 2007: Arbeitskreis Vormoderne Literatur. Lezing: Lehrgedichte als Medien der Tradierung geheimer Körpertechniken (on invitation) link 
• Beijing: Augustus 2007: Conference: From Greece to China: West Meets East through Sport - Multiculturalism in the Olympic Movement. Lezing: The Sportification and Globalization of Judo - or: Is Judo a 'traditional' Japanese sport? (on invitation)
• Cologne: Mei 2007: Leibeserziehung im frühmodernen Japan? Kaibara Ekken als Leibeserzieher, Universiteit Keulen.
• Joensuu: January 2007: The Sword in Japanese History: Re-reading a Symbol and His Owner, Joensuu Universiteit, Finland.

2006

• Hangzhou: Oktober 2006: World Leisure Congress in Hangzhou (China). Lezing: The 'Gentle' Way to the Olympics: Western and Eastern Body Culture in Judo. (op uitnodiging link)
• Cologne: September 2006: Internationales Symposium zum Sport im Altertum. Lezing: "Herz und Schwimmen sind eins" Anmerkungen zum Schwimmen in Japan als militärische Tradition.

2005

• Cologne: November 2005: Lezing: Judo als Leibeserziehung und Volkserziehung.
• Oldenburg: September 2005: Duits-Japanse Vereniging van Oldenburg. Lezing: Judo und Erziehung: Kanô Jigorôs Erziehungsphilosophie im Kontext der Meiji-Zeit. (on invitation)

2004

• Nagano: September 2004: Japanese Society of Physical Education and Sport. Lezing: Denki ni okeru shintai - Kanô Jigorô no shôgai no kaidoku. (on invitation)
• Nagano: September 2004: Japanese Society of Physical Education and Sport. Lezing: Miushinawareta Kanô Jigorô - Doitsu ni okeru jûdô no dôka no kanten kara. (on invitation)
•  Bochum: June 2004: Mittagsforum Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Lezing: Body and Biography. (on invitation)
• Düsseldorf: March 2004: EKO-Haus Düsseldorf. Lezing: Biographisierung als Narrationsprozess: Sportlerleben in der Modernisierungsphase Japans. (Biography as Narrative Process: Life of Athletes during the Period of Japanese Modernisation). (on invitation)

2003

• Bochum: November 2003: "Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung". Lezing: Die Bissstellen der Blutegel jucken - Überlegungen zu edo-zeitlichen Körpervorstellungen am Beispiel von Kaibara Ekkens Yôjô-kun (The leeches' bits itch - Thoughts on the body concept in Edo-Japan as seen in Kaibara Ekken's Yôjô-kun). (on invitation)
• Cologne: September 2003: Nihon Bunka Kaikan (Japanese Cultural Institute), Cologne (Duitsland). Lezing: Die japanische Kultur und der Kulturschock (Japanese Culture and Cultural Shock).
• Wittenberg: Juli 2003: Annual Conference of the German Society of Japanese Scholars in Wittenberg. Lezing: Studium in Japan. Passen die Stipendien des DAAD zu den Bedürfnissen der Studierenden? (Studying in Japan - Do DAAD Scholarships Fit the Student's Needs?). (on invitation)
• Olympia: Mei 2003: 11th International Postgraduate Seminar on Olympic Studies of the Olympic Academy 2003 in Olympia (Griekenland). Lezing: Kanô Jigorô (1860-1938): Pioneer of the Japanese Olympic Movement ‑ Cultural Translation of Olympic Values. (on invitation)