Lieven Sommen

Visiting scholar to Kokugakuin University at Kokugakuin University
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, JP
Languages
  • Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French Professional working proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Japanese Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Italian Full professional proficiency
  • Chinese Elementary proficiency
  • German Limited working proficiency

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Credentials

  • Français professionel dans un contexte universitaire
    Instituut Voor Levende Talen
    Jun, 2023
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Kokugakuin University
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Visiting scholar to Kokugakuin University
      • Oct 2022 - Present

      Continuing my doctoral research into the diplomatic and media history of Japan and east Asia at large, with a scholarship by the visiting scholars program of Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. Continuing my doctoral research into the diplomatic and media history of Japan and east Asia at large, with a scholarship by the visiting scholars program of Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.

  • Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
    • Belgium
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Doctoral Student in Japanese Studies
      • Oct 2018 - Sep 2022

      I received a four-year scholarship from the Research Foundation Flanders to perform Fundamental Research as a doctoral student at the KU Leuven (university). My research concerned Japanese diplomatic history. My work was on the public diplomacy institutions of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the period 1904-1931.

    • Visiting scholar to Kyoto University (Kyoto)
      • Mar 2020 - Apr 2021

      I spent 14 months at the Kyoto University Faculty of Law as a visiting scholar. There, I pursued my doctoral research and took research seminars in Japanese with professor Naraoka Sôchi.

    • Visiting Scholar to Keio University (Tokyo)
      • Mar 2019 - Apr 2019

      I spent two months as a visiting scholar to Keio University in Tokyo, to perform my doctoral research and participate in research seminars by professor Shimizu Yuichirô.

  • KU Leuven
    • Belgium
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Jobstudent at the East Asian Library of the KU Leuven Central Library
      • Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

      I worked as a job student in the KU Leuven Central Library's section dedicated to East Asian materials. I helped to reorganize large quantities of Japanese and Chinese-language books into a new categorization system, and dealt with general library tasks such as lending out books to visitors. I worked as a job student in the KU Leuven Central Library's section dedicated to East Asian materials. I helped to reorganize large quantities of Japanese and Chinese-language books into a new categorization system, and dealt with general library tasks such as lending out books to visitors.

    • Administrative assistant to Department of Japanese Studies (KU Leuven)
      • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

      I worked as an administrative assistant to the Department of Japanese Studies of the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts. I performed various tasks for Professor Dr. Jan Schmidt.

    • Job Student at KU Leuven Central Library Open Access Support Centre
      • Mar 2017 - Sep 2017

      I worked as an administrative assistant for the Open Access Support Centre of the KU Leuven Central Library. I had to judge whether or not academic publications in the KU Leuven database could be published in an open access-format or not, by analyzing the academic publishers' policies and coming to conclusions based on them.

  • NHK Culture Centre
    • Interpreter At Exhibition For Japanese Culture
      • Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

      I worked as a consecutive interpreter in Japanese, Dutch, English, and French at an exhibition promoting Japanese culture that was held in Antwerp, Belgium. I accompanied a Japanese calligrapher and interpreted back and forth between him and the attendees of the exhibition. The event was organized by the NHK Culture Centre. I worked as a consecutive interpreter in Japanese, Dutch, English, and French at an exhibition promoting Japanese culture that was held in Antwerp, Belgium. I accompanied a Japanese calligrapher and interpreted back and forth between him and the attendees of the exhibition. The event was organized by the NHK Culture Centre.

Education

  • KU Leuven
    Master of Language and Area Studies: Japanology (Master of Arts), Japanese Studies
    2016 - 2017
  • KU Leuven
    Bachelor of Language and Area Studies: Japanology, Japanese politics, language, culture, and history
    2012 - 2016
  • Shinshu University
    One year exchange program, Japanese Studies

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