PhD, Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies (Japanese Studies), Japan Women's University (Japanese studies)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Japanese Confucian philosophy, Tokugawa Confucianism, the intellectual history of bushidō, modern Japanese identity discourses, Japanese moral philosophy, Japanese modernity
[translation] Henry Smith, The Paradoxes of the Japanese Samurai, De la “Shōgun” citire – Istoria Japoniei și fanteziile Occidentului, pp. 187-207, 2022
Henry Smith, Postcript: the TV Transformation, De la “Shōgun” citire – Istoria Japoniei și fanteziile Occidentului, pp. 303-308, 2022
[translation, co-translator: Takeshi Morisato] Yamakawa Kikue, Nazis and Women, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy vol. 7, pp. 447-449, 2022
[translation, co-translator: Takeshi Morisato] Yamakawa Kikue, Gunshot in Manchuria, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy vol. 7, pp. 449-453, 2022
[research article] Reading Yamaga Sokō’s Shidō today – a few considerations on the fundamentals of his moral philosophy, in Annals of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University – Linguistics, Literature and Methodology of Teaching vol. XVIII Nr. 1/2019
Book review: Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order, R.T. Ames, P.D. Hershock (eds), in ‘European Journal of Japanese Philosophy’ vol. 3/2018
[translation] Yamaga Sokō’s Way of the Samurai – a Translation into Romanian (Part II), in ‘European Journal of Japanese Philosophy’ vol. 3/2018
[translation] Yamaga Sokō’s Way of the Samurai – a Translation into Romanian (Part I), in ‘Traditions in Dialogue’ vol. 6/2017
Sexual Desire and the Long and Happy Life in Edo-period Confucianism – Kaibara Ekken’s “Yōjōkun,” Akita Philosophy Seminar (the 1st Iteration), Akita University, Japan, 2022
Fantasizing about Japan in Romania, Then and Now – A Look at James Clavell’s “Shōgun” (co-presenter: Radu Leca), Japan: Literary and Cultural Representations in Communist Europe, Tokyo, Japan (online), 2o22
Towards a (Japanese) Confucian Sexual Ethics – Sexual Desire in Kogaku Texts, Japan – Pre-modern, Modern, Contemporary, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (the 9th Iteration), Bucharest, 2022
[public lecture] 明治期のジャパのロジーにおける「武士道」とは？ーフランシス・ブリンクリーの「Japan: Its History, Arts and Literature」を中心に, Kanda University of International Studies, The Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2022
Edo Philosophy – Confucian Thinkers and the World They Envisioned, Conversaciones de Filosofiá Japonesa, series of public (online) lectures organized by Revista Horizonte Independiente, European Network of Japanese Philosophy, and Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofiá Intercultural, Colombia, 2022
Searching for Lost Voices – Female Confucian Scholars of the Edo Period, The Annual Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (hybrid), 2022
Thinking about Confucianism and Modernity in the Early Postwar Period – Watsuji Tetsurō’s “The History of Ethical Thought in Japan,” The 6th Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy – (Counter)Influences, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, 2022
[public lecture] 大衆文化からサブカルチャーへ：春本と乾板写真を中心にした近代日本のある物語, Kanda University of International Studies, The Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2021
“Invented Religion” or “Revered Tradition”? Early Japanologists on Bushidō and Modernity in Meiji Japan, The 15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Continuity and Change, Olomouc, Czechia (online), 2021
What is ‘Ethics’? What is ‘ethics’? Some Reflections on Translating Watsuji Tetsurō’s Preface to “Nihon rinri shisōshi,” Asian Philosophical Texts vol. 3, Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba (online)
The Down-and-Dirty Story of a Changing Visual Culture – Shunpon and Glass Dry-Plate Photography in Imperial Japan, Japan – Pre-modern, Modern, Contemporary, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest (online), 2021
Watsuji, the Confucian Ethicist?, The 16th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (online), 2021
Towards a Philosophical Translation of Yamaga Sokō’s Shidō, “Asian Philosophical Texts vol. 2,” Japan, Kanda University of International Studies (Chiba), 2019
On the Elusive Equilibrium of Virtual Behaviour: A Dialogue between Yamaga Sokō and Aristotle, “The 5th Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy – Philosophy and Beauty (美の哲学・哲学の美),” Japan, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya), 2019
The case for Japanese Confucian philosophy – on Yamaga Sokō’s concept of loyalty (忠孝) and its modern (mis)interpretations, ‘The 4th Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy (ENOJP)’, Germany, University of Hildesheim, 2018 (September 5-8)
Yamaga Sokō’s moral philosophy and its modern-day implications, ‘Japan – premodern, modern and contemporary’, Romania, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, 2018 (September 3-5)
Learning from Shōgun today (workshop), ‘Japan – premodern, modern and contemporary’, Romania, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (with Radu Leca), 2018 (September 3-5)
The Politics of Confucianism in Contemporary Japan, ‘BAJS (Japan Chapter) Spring 2017 Mini-Conference’, Chiba, Chiba University, 2017 (May 28)
The performed self – drag queens from the Osaka stage, ‘Japan – premodern, modern and contemporary’, Romania, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (with Carmen Tamaș), 2016 (September 2)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2018~: European Network of Japanese Philosophy
2016~: European Association of Japanese Studies
2011~: お茶の水女子大学日本言語文化学学会
2010~: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Bucharest
2008~: European Association of Japanese Language Teachers
2005~: Romanian Association of Japanese Language Teachers
