Overview
The CESCHI came into being in April 2019, as the result of merger between the Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies (Haneda Memorial Hall), which had played a pivotal role in Inner Asian studies since 1966, and the Center for Cultural Heritage Studies, which had conducted many archaeological activities within the KU campus for more than 40 years. Along with taking over the responsibilities of the previous two organizations, this brand-new center takes up the mission of humanities with the aim of systematically distributing the knowledge not only accumulated in all departments in the Graduate School of Letters but also resulting from the integration. This organization consists of two bodies; the Research Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage and the Innovative Hub of Inter-humanities.
Research Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage
This body, expanding the activities of the former two centres, has four sections for the purpose of developing comprehensive researches concerning management of Japanese and overseas cultural heritage.
- Section of Comparative Studies of Cultural Heritage
- Section of Archaeological Heritage Management for KU
- Section of Inner Asian Studies
- Section of Eurasian Religious Heritage Studies
Innovative Hub of Inter-humanities
This body aims at creating a new type of knowledge into which the whole knowledge not only accumulated in every department of Graduate School of Letters but also newly acquired by the other above-mentioned body is all interwoven, and disseminates the knowledge built up in each discipline of humanities, securing the closest coordination with other organizations both within and without KU.
Faculty Members
KITA, Chigusa – Director and Professor
YOSHII, Hideo – Vice-Director and Professor
KITA, Chigusa – Vice-Director and Professor
CHIBA, Yutaka – Associate Professor (Japanese Archaeology)
SASAKAWA, Naoki – Assistant Professor (History of ancient Japan)
Xu Qin – Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Chinese Language Education)
ITO, Atsushi – Assistant Professor (Japanese Archaeology)
Fujimoto Kanon – Assistant Professor (Experimental Psychology)
YAMASAKI, Daiki – Assistant Professor (Experimental Psychology)
Faculty with joint appointments
UEJIMA, Susumu – Professor
YOKOCHI, Yuko – Professor
Tarohmaru, Hiroshi – Professor
MATSUNAGA, Shinji – Associate Professor
YOSHIMOTO,Michimasa – Professor
MIYAZAKI, Izumi – Professor
SHIMOGAKI, Hitoshi – Professor
AMANO, Kyoto – Associate Professor
