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Invitation to the Fellow’s Seminar - Session 15
Invitation to the Fellow’s Seminar - Session 15
Europe, Middle East, and Africa Division
The Japan Foundation would like to welcome you to join us for the fifteenth session of the Fellows' Seminar for Fiscal 2007-2008. The presenter is Dr. Nathalie Kouamé, Associate Professor of The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France.Details of the session are as follows:
| Presentation Theme: | Early Christianity in Japan
In this seminar, I would like to present the history of early Christianity in Japan along two themes. Firstly, my field work that has been done this autumn in Nagasaki will be reported. In particular, the basic historiography on this subject and the historians related to this issue will be presented. For example, this will include the principal questions, the reference sources, and the results of the researchers. Also my research during my four-month stay in Nagasaki will be discussed concretely with consideration of the meanings of Christianity research in this region. Secondly, the subject will be concentrated into the detailed historical question of Francisco de Xavier who made a mission for the first time in the history of Japan. I will especially try to understand what Xavier, on his landing at Kagoshima, expected of Japan and Japanese people. This report on Xavier will be based on a lecture which I gave last March at an international symposium in Colmar, France, entitled "The pepper of Malacca, the Spiritual exercises, the doctrines on the soul and the rationality of the American Indians. A survey of material and spiritual items imported by Francisco de Xavier into Japan on his travels in 1549". |
| Presenter: | Dr. Nathalie Kouamé is an Associate Professor of INALCO, The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France.She completed her Master’s course in sociology in 1986 at the University of Paris V and obtained her doctoral degree at INALCO in 1998.As a 2007 Japanese Studies fellow 2007, Dr. Kouamé has been conducting her research on the theme of "Christians in Nagasaki, Shimabara and Amakusa from the end of the medieval era to the early modern age". |
| Date: | Tuesday, November13, 2007 |
| Time: | 15:30-17:30 |
| Location: | JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation Ark Mori Bldg. West Wing 20F  *Please enter the building from the first floor. Your ID (National Health Insurance Card, Driver's License, Passport, Alien Registration Card or any other ID) will be required at the entrance. |
| Language: | Japanese (no interpretation) |
| Admission Fee: | Free |
| Contact: | If you would like to attend the seminar, please notify Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange Dept. by Monday November 12, 2007 with your name, affiliation, and contact information (tel., fax or e-mail). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. |
