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Katarzyna Cwiertka

Professor of Modern Japan Studies

Name
Prof.dr. K.J. Cwiertka
Telephone
+31 71 527 2599
E-mail
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4851-7784

Kasia Cwiertka is a professor of Modern Japan Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. She is an expert on food history of modern Japan and Korea, social history of modern Japan with particular reference to consumer society, and plastics and recycling in Japan.

More information about Katarzyna Cwiertka

www.cwiertka.com

Research

Field: Material Culture and Consumption, History and Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of Colonialism and War, Globalisation
Area: Japan/Korea/East Asia

Supervision

My area of expertise covers consumption, food and waste in East Asia, in both contemporary and historical contexts. I particularly welcome MA and PhD projects that focus on twentieth century Japan.

Teaching activities

  • Culture: East Asia (BA International Studies)
  • Asia Through Consumption (MA in Asian Studies)

Publications

Books:

2016. (with E. Machotka) Too Pretty to Throw Away: Packaging Design from Japan. Kraków: Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Press.

2016. (with Miho Yasuhara) Himerareta washokushi. Tokyo: Shinsensha

2013. Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia (editor). Farnham: Ashgate.

2012. Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (editor). Leiden: Brill.

2012. Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth Century Korea. London: Reaktion Books.

2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity , London: Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.

2006. Kaiseki Recipes: Secrets of Japanese Cuisine (co-author with Akira Oshima), Bruges: Stichting Kunstboek (English and Dutch editions).

2003. Yamazato: The Kaiseki Cuisine, Hotel Okura Amsterdam (co-author with Patrick Faas and Akira Oshima), Brugge: Stichting Kunstboek (English and Dutch editions).

2002. Asian Food: The Global and the Local (co-edited with Boudewijn Walraven), London: RoutledgeCurzon / Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Publications available online:

(see 'Curriculum vitae' for the full list of publications)

2011. Inaugural Lecture, Leiden University (Leiden, 11 November).

2007. 'War, Empire and the Making of Japanese National Cuisine', Japan Focus: An Asia Pacific e-journal.

2005. ‘Militarization of nutrition in wartime Japan', IIAS Newsletter 38: 15.

2004. Daejanggeum・and the Gentrification of Korean Food Culture' Korea Foundation Newsletter 13 (1).

Professor of Modern Japan Studies

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Institute for Area Studies
  • SAS Japan

Work address

Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden

Contact

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