Kensuke Asai is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University. His research interests are in the experience of otherness and its relation to the transformation of a human being. He is primarily studying the early works of Walter Benjamin and related philosophers, such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, in terms of educational communication with others; his master’s thesis is on Benjamin’s idea of translation and its relation to the idea of reflection.

Researchmap URL: https://researchmap.jp/kensuke_asai

Kazunao Morita is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University. His research area is educational thought and integral humanities. He is interested in exiled thinkers in the 20 century America who were sensing a cultural and philosophical conflict between “Europe" and “America.” He is seeking the educational implication of this kind of cross-cultural conflict. He is currently writing about the thought of Erich Fromm and its implications for education. He had been working as a JSPS research fellow and studied at McMaster University, Canada. 

morita.kazunao.83a@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

SOGABE Kazuma is a doctoral student at Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, as well as Lecturer in the Department of English at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan. The purpose of his research is to reconsider political discourse and education (especially surrounding sexual minorities) in the contemporary world, based on the American philosophy of Stanley Cavell.

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京都大学大学院教育学研究科博士後期課程

／神田外語大学外国語学部英米語学科講師

研究内容：スタンリー・カベルのアメリカ哲学を通じて、（特にセクシュアル・マイノリティをめぐる）現代の政治言説および政治教育を再考する

Researchmap URL: https://researchmap.jp/Sogabe_Kazuma/

E-mail: sogabe-k [@] kanda.kuis.ac.jp

Shun Kajiwara is a doctoral student at Graduate School of education, Kyoto University. His main research area is American philosophy and its implication for education and human life, concentrating on the works of John Dewey. His recent publication is “Pedagogical Significance of Shunsuke Tsurumi’s "Marginal Art": A Comparison With John Dewey’s "Aesthetic Experience"” in "Kyoto University Research Studies in Education"（『京都大学大学院教育学研究科紀要』）, No. 70, pp. 247-260, 2024. His research interests are: Habit, Aesthetic Experience, Existence, Subjectivity.

Research Map: https://researchmap.jp/shun_kajiwara

Mail: kajiwara.shun.33n@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Genta YAMAMOTO is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University and is also working as a Kyoto University Graduate Division Fellow. His research area is in philosophy of education, based on contemporary French philosophy (existentialism, ontology, post-structuralism). He is particularly interested in Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy and his notion of ‘éducation’ which enables one’s self to become singular through encountering the plurality of the others. He is also interested in media studies and the kind of praxis for this ‘éducation’ within ‘media’ (language, body).

yamamoto.genta.84x@gmail.com