Administration

International Editorial and Advisory Board (6)

• Korpusgermanistik, Atatürk University Press, Erzurum, Turkey (since May 2025)

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis, Istanbul University Press, Istanbul, Turkey (since April 2025)

• Affairs of the Heart: Timeless Narratives from Around the World, edited by Teodora Serban-Oprescu, Marina-Luminita Militaru, Monica-Alina Toma, Bucharest University Press, Bucharest, Romania (June 2024 – December 2024)

• Alma Mater: Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Marmara University Press, Istanbul, Turkey (since January 2024)

• Global Media and China, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA (since January 2023)

• Brukenthalia, Sibiu University “Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, Romania (since January 2018)

Academic Events (4)

• Academic Workshop Examining Representations that Contribute to Our Understanding of What “Looking Japanese” Means in Contemporary Japanese Society 『現代の日本社会における「日本人に見える」とはどういう意味かを理解するのに役に立つ表現を調べること』, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, 4. February 2020. [English/Japanese, with Dr. Erika Smith (Western Sydney University)]

• International Workshop Lock’n’Loll is Here to Stay: Stereotyping, Domesticating and Inventing Popular Musics in/of Asia, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 5.-7. August 2010. [English, with Dr. Oliver Seibt]

• International Conference Between East and West: Transcultural Flows of Encyclopedic Knowledge, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 21.-23. April 2010. [English]

• International Workshop Encyclopedia at the Crossroads: The Making of a Genre in East and West, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 4. February 2010. [English]

Panel Organizer (5)

• Double-Panel “Mindscapes and Cultural Insights in Far Eastern Studies” (with Associate Professor Dr. Raluca Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; Professor emerita Dr. Mariana Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; Associate Professor Dr. Marco Pellitteri, China; Associate Professor Dr. Alexandru Sipos, University of Chicago, Chicago/USA; PhD Candidate YYY XXX, Waseda University, Tokyo/Japan; Motrica Tanaka, Independent Researcher, Hiroshima International School, Hiroshima/Japan; myself), held at the 13th International Conference “Synergies in Communication”, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 30.-31. October 2025. [English, international conference, online, peer-reviewed]

• “Learning with and from Japanese Animation: Re-Tracing the Hero’s Journey, Postmedia and Transhistoricity” (with Professor Dr. Christine Greiner, Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo/Brazil; Associate Professor Dr. Marco Pellitteri, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou/PRC; Senior Researcher Dr. Lucas Ferraco Nassif, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon/Portugal; PhD candidate Valentina Andrada Minea, Bucharest University/ Eberhard Karl’s University of Tübingen, Germany), held at the international conference Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures 2025, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 7.-9. June 2025. [English, international conference, hybrid, peer-reviewed]

• Double-Panel “Mindscapes and Cultural Insights in Far Eastern Studies” (with Associate Professor Dr. Raluca Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; Professor emerita Dr. Mariana Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; PhD candidate Valentina Andrada Minea, Bucharest University/ Eberhard Karl’s University of Tübingen, Germany; Senior Researcher Dr. Lucas Ferraco Nassif, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon/Portugal; Professor Dr. Joanna Klara Teske, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; Motrica Tanaka, Independent Researcher, Hiroshima International School, Hiroshima, Japan; myself), held at the 12th International Conference “Synergies in Communication”, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 31. October-1. November 2024. [English, international conference, online, peer-reviewed]

• Double-Panel “Mindscapes and Cultural Insights in Far Eastern Studies” (with Associate Professor Dr. Raluca Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; Dr Luiza Catrinel Marinescu, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania, Institute of Romanian Language, Romania/University St Kliment, Ohrdski, Sofia, Bulgaria; Prof. Dr. Mariana NICOLAE, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania; Rodica ȘTEFAN, Spiru Haret University, Romania; Aleksandra SZCZECHLA, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Cristian POPESCU, University of Bucharest, Romania; myself), held at the 11th International Conference “Synergies in Communication”, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 26.-27. October 2023. [English, international conference, hybrid, peer-reviewed]

• Panel “Digital Humanities in Asia: A Phenomenological Approach” (Associate Professor Dr. Raluca Nicolae, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania; MA candidate Xinyi Zhao, Graduate School of Humanities, Hiroshima University; myself), held at the international Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS), Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24.-25. November 2023. [English, international conference, online, peer-reviewed]

Administrative committees in academic institutions (6)

• August 2022-March 2023: 学際交流推進WG – Working Group for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Exchange, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• 2021-present: 報告委員会 Committee for Advertisement and Marketing, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• 2021-present: 国際委員会 Committee for International Relations and Recruiting Activities, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Integrated Global Studies

• 2018-2021: 教務委員会 Committee for Academic Affairs, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Integrated Global Studies

• 2016-2018: ハラスメント防止委員会 Committee for Harassment Prevention, Nagasaki University, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences

• 2013-2016: 入試委員会 Committee for Admission Policies and Examinations, Nagasaki University, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences