Sven HOLST

Brief personal history

2011-today Fukuoka Women`s University Department of International Liberal Arts Associate Professor
2007-2011 Fukuoka Women`s University Faculty of Literature Associate Professor
2003-2007 Fukuoka Women`s University Faculty of Literature Assistant Professor
2001-2003 Achi Prefectural University Faculty of Foreign Languages German Department Visiting Assistant Professor
1997-2000 Achi Prefectural University Faculty of Foreign Languages German Departement Visiting Lecturer

1994-1996 Kyoto University Faculty of Letters
1993-1997 Freie Universit?t Berlin Doctoral course Subject: Japanese Studies
1993 Freie Universit?t Berlin Magister Artium (M. A.)
1991-1992 Kyoto University Liberal Arts college
1988-1993 Freie Universit?t Berlin Magister course Main subject: Japanese Studies Minor subjects: Economy, Ethnology
1985-1988 JWG-University Frankfurt Magister course: Economy, Japanese Studies

Degrees

2001 Freie Universit?t Berlin Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Research themes

Cultural comparison
Sociocultural history of early modern and modern Japan and Germany (tourism, festivals etc.)

Select publication list

1.“From Feast to tourist events”(jap.) Fukuoka Women`s University Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature No.74 p.61-84 March 2010

2.“Messures for fostering tourism in the Black Forest”(jap.) , Fukuoka Women`s University Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature, No.72 p.51-71, March 2008

3.“Structural changes in the Ruhr region – from heavy industries to tourism” (jap.) , Fukuoka Women`s University Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature, No.71, p.89-106, March 2007

4.Sven-Ohle Holst and Kazufumi Manabe, “Studies of the japanese image in foreign countries” (jap.), Kwansai Gakuin University Bulletin of the Department of Sociology, No.102, p.1-17, March 2007

5.”27 Years of Kyushu study trip,” (germ.) Lektorenrundbrief 37, p.10-12, May 2010.

6.“German festivals - Pützchens Markt, ” (jap.)Yearly Bulletin of The Japanese-German Society Westjapan No. 33, June 2009.

7.“German feats of March,” (jap.) Yearly Bulletin of The Japanese-German Society Westjapan No.32, June 2008.

8.“Begging practice in german feasts,” (jap.) Yearly Bulletin of The Japanese-German Society Westjapan No.31, June 2007.

Research field

Sociology, history

Membership of Academic Societies

Japanese-German Society of Westjapan Member of the board of directors
Study Advisor Network of the German Academic Exchange Service Tokyo
Interuni West (interuniversitary summer camp for german language education) Organisation comitee
Study group for German language and culture (interuniversitary study trip to Germany) Organisation comitee
Japanese Society for German Literature
Japanese Society for German Literature Chapter Westjapan
Kyushu Society for Historical Science

Lecture subjects

International Culture
Japanese Traditional Culture
Traditional Performing Arts
German Cultural History
World Enviroment and Mankinds Future
German Language II-IV
European and American Language and Culture Seminar I-II

Contributions to local society

Japanese-German Society Westjapan, board
Public lectures

Related field

Literature and History
Social System Studies
Foreign Language Education