Academic career

Dr. Celia Spoden

Since 04/2018
Research assistant at the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH) in the BMBF-funded research project "Wishes and needs of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for advice on life-shortening measures" (PALS-HD)

04/2008 to 03/2018
Research assistant at the Institute for Modern Japan, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

05/2017
Lecturer at the Asia-Orient Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland; Special lecture Japanology II on "Songenshi (dying with dignity) and the euthanasia debate in Japan"

05/2010
Erasmus lecturer exchange with the University of Ghent in Belgium; block seminar on "Is there a Right to Die? The Case of an ALS Patient in Japan"

02/2009
Participation in the winter school "Responsibility - a useful illusion?" at the Marsilius Kolleg of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

10/2007 to 05/2014
Doctoral studies in Modern Japan at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; graduated summa cum laude

10/2001 to 09/2007
Master's degree in Modern Japan and Philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Stays abroad and research stays

01/2018 to 03/2018
HeRA Travel grant from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for a stay as a visiting researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, Max Weber Foundation, German Humanities Institutes abroad

04/2016 to 03/2017
Canon Foundation Fellowship for a research project on the possibilities of social participation for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan

08/2009 to 09/2009
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Scholarship for Japan-related research; research stay to conduct interviews and participant observation as part of the doctoral thesis "Decision-making at the end of life using the example of living wills in Japan"

10/2006 to 12/2006
DAAD short-term scholarship for the preparation of final theses; Three-month stay in Okinawa, Japan to conduct life history interviews and field research on the topic of "Changing identities in Okinawa"

10/2004 to 09/2005
Stay abroad at the University of the Ryūkyūs in Japan; Japan Student Services Organizations (JASSO) Scholarship