Academic Societies

The Otani Society is an academic association composed of the entire faculty and students in the Department of Letters and Graduate School. As the central organ for academic research in our university, it conducts study meetings, academic conferences and public lectures. Furthermore, to make its research widely known to the public, it publishes two academic journals, the half-yearly Otani Gakuho and the annual Otani Daigaku Kenkyu Nenpo. In spring it holds a public lecture and in autumn it sponsors a conference featuring presentations by members of the faculty. Otani Gakuho began publication in 1920 under the name Bukkyo-Kenkyu, and changed its name to the present one in 1928. The Otani Daigaku Kenkyu Nenpo was begun in 1942.

 

Otani University is also home to a number of academic societies organized by various departments or along inter-disciplinary lines. In these societies, the faculty and students join together to undertake such things as regularly scheduled study meetings, fieldwork, trips to historical sites, overnight study meetings, public lectures and other activities. Many of these societies also publish their own academic journals. They include Shinran Kyogaku, Bukkyo-gaku Seminar, Tetsugaku Ronshu, Shukyo, Gakkai-ho, Otani Daigaku Shigaku Ronkyu, Rekishi-no-Hiroba, Bungei Ronso, Seiyo Bungaku Kenkyu, and Eibun Gakkai Kaiho.