Prof. Yoshida’s visit to our Department is based on the collaboration project with The University of Tokyo, titled Playing Japan: Games Studies, Anime Research, and Language Education, which Jaqueline Berndt and Mitsuyo Kuwano Lidén have been running since 2020, with pandemic-related interruptions. PhD student Ida Kirkegaard has also been involved. At this seminar Prof. Yoshida will introduce his past and current interests in Game Studies in terms of (1) cognitive process, (2) media ecology, and (3) material culture related to the playing in postwar Japan.

Hiroshi Yoshida holds a PhD in Aesthetics from The University of Tokyo obtained with a thesis on Richard Wagner in 2005. From 2008 to 2019 he taught at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, where he developed Japan’s first academic Center of Games Studies, including a respective graduate school. In 2020 he returned to his Alma Mater, where he continues to teach Game Studies to a variety of students.
For his research and teaching see the following sites (available only in Japanese): https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/ja/people/k0001_02338.html#
https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/teacher/database/7343.html
In English, he co-edited the Open Access volume Japan’s Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global (2021): https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/971?lang=en

To visitors from outside the Department: please register with Jaqueline Berndt (jberndt@su.se) to arrange access through the locked door.