2026.06.22
Events
First Lecture of the TIFO Frontier Religious Studies Lecture Series: "The Making of Postwar Funerals: Confraternities and Death in Japan’s New Life Movement" (on-site & online, 27 June)
Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies (Japanese Religious and Intellectual History Course) is pleased to present the first lecture in "Frontier Religious Studies: A Lecture Series Showcasing Japanese Religious Studies in English," a project supported by the Toshiba International Foundation.
For this session, we are honored to welcome Dr Aya Oba of Joetsu University of Education. Taking the town of Mogami in Yamagata Prefecture as her point of departure, she will explore how local residents themselves — through mutual-aid associations known as kō — reconsidered the conduct of ceremonial occasions such as weddings and funerals and created new forms of funerary practice.
Date&Time: Saturday, June 27, 2026, starting at 4:00 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi campus of Tohoku University) & Online
(MAP:https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/map/ja/?f=KW_A05)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form below or by scanning the QR code on the poster.
▶ Registration Form: https://forms.gle/izrpkTUubeFfXEPHA
Registration Deadline: Friday, June 26, 2026
Hosted by Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies; Supported by Toshiba International Foundation.
Contact:
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History
gaitanidis[at]tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace “[at]” with “@”.)
For this session, we are honored to welcome Dr Aya Oba of Joetsu University of Education. Taking the town of Mogami in Yamagata Prefecture as her point of departure, she will explore how local residents themselves — through mutual-aid associations known as kō — reconsidered the conduct of ceremonial occasions such as weddings and funerals and created new forms of funerary practice.
Date&Time: Saturday, June 27, 2026, starting at 4:00 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi campus of Tohoku University) & Online
(MAP:https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/map/ja/?f=KW_A05)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form below or by scanning the QR code on the poster.
▶ Registration Form: https://forms.gle/izrpkTUubeFfXEPHA
Registration Deadline: Friday, June 26, 2026
Hosted by Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies; Supported by Toshiba International Foundation.
Contact:
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History
gaitanidis[at]tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace “[at]” with “@”.)