2026.11.12
Events
4th Lecture of the TIFO Frontier Religious Studies Lecture Series: "Canonizing Prophecy: The Co-production of the Chŏng Kam nok and the Category of 'Pseudo-Religion' in Colonial Korea" (on-site & online)-December 4
Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies (Japanese Religious and Intellectual History Course) is pleased to present the fourth 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 honoured to welcome Dr Haesun Park from Ritsumeikan University. Dr Park examines how colonial authorities, Japanese settlers, Korean elites, and new religious movements turned the Korean prophetic text Chŏng Kam nok into a modern book, and in the process shaped the colonial category of “pseudo-religions.”
Date&Time: Friday, December 4, 2026, starting at 4:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi Kita campus of Tohoku University) & Online (MAP)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form or by scanning the QR code below.
▶ Registration Form: https://forms.gle/QTFfQFUkM1trp87x7
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Registration Deadline: Thursday, December 3, 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 honoured to welcome Dr Haesun Park from Ritsumeikan University. Dr Park examines how colonial authorities, Japanese settlers, Korean elites, and new religious movements turned the Korean prophetic text Chŏng Kam nok into a modern book, and in the process shaped the colonial category of “pseudo-religions.”
Date&Time: Friday, December 4, 2026, starting at 4:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi Kita campus of Tohoku University) & Online (MAP)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form or by scanning the QR code below.
▶ Registration Form: https://forms.gle/QTFfQFUkM1trp87x7
▶QR code:
Registration Deadline: Thursday, December 3, 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 “@”.)
