Dr Ewa Kamińska – a graduate of Japanease studies, art history and Slavic studies from the University of Hamburg. She also defended her doctorate in Hamburg at the Department of Japanese Studies. Dr Kamińska made many research trips to Japan and cooperated among other with Fukui University, Ôsaka Shiritsu University and Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien). Her research intrests include cultural contacts between Japan and Europe, transculturalism, Japanese art with particular emphasis on artistic craft, the process of shaping and changing the image of Japan in Europe, contemporary architecture of Japan and aesthetics in everyday life of modern Japanese society. She is the author of the book Rezeption japanischer Kultur in Deutschland: Zeitgenössische Keramik als Fallstudie (2012). She teaches, among others, History of Art in the Far East, Culture of Japan, Cultural Exchange Between Japan and Europe, and The role of Museum in Culture.