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クマレ・ハラルド・ミハエル 准教授

Harald Michael Kümmerle Associate Professor

Research Projects

My research focuses on the production, distribution, and institutionalization of knowledge from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Building on my analysis of the institutionalization process of mathematics in modern Japan, I currently explore the impact of digital technologies and media on knowledge, industry, and society. In particular, I analyze the relationship between data, industrial structure, and society/economy during the process of their integration into society, using an international comparative perspective.

The appeal of research

The appeal of my research lies in the fact that it allows us to concretely trace the process by which knowledge and rationality have been shaped within historical and social conditions, rather than simply existing as "taken for granted." Even seemingly abstract subjects like mathematics, science, and digital technology have only come to function through institutions, media, and people's practices.
I find research fascinating because it allows me to re-examine the state of the information society from a different perspective by moving back and forth between analyzing historical cases and conducting empirical studies on contemporary digital technologies and institutions, and because this perspective can provide clues for thinking about the future.

Achievements

His doctoral dissertation on the institutionalization of mathematics in modern Japan earned him the Johannes Zilkens Prize in Germany.2020 2020 ) and the Kuwahara Prize of the Japan Society for the History of Mathematics (2023 2023 ) was awarded.
I serve on the steering committee and editorial committee of the Japan Society for the History of Mathematics, and I am involved in the society's activities and the dissemination of research results.
Furthermore, at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, I have been involved in international research exchanges concerning the relationship between digital technology and society/institutions, and have participated from an academic standpoint in Craft-Shops and discussions on digital regulation and cooperation between Japan and Europe.

Major publications and papers

book:

• Kümmerle, H. 2022. Die Institutionalisierung der Mathematik als Wissenschaft im Japan der Meiji- und Taisho-Zeit (1868-1926) [Meiji-Taisho era in Japan: The Institutionalization of Mathematics as a Science (1868-1926)]. Acta Historica Leopoldina. Halle (Saale): Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
• Kümmerle, H. & Waldenberger, F. (eds.). 2020. The Digital Transformation: Implications for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. DIJ Miscellanea 21. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien.

paper:

• Kümmerle, H. & Thumfart, J. 2025. “From Data Universalism to Data Particularism.” Global Studies Quarterly 5(3): ksaf089.
• Kümmerle, H. 2024. “Tannaka Tadao's 1938 paper on the duality of noncommutative topological groups.” In: Duality in 19th and 20th Century Mathematical Thinking. Cham: Birkhäuser, 355–434.
• Kümmerle, H. & Waldenberger, F. 2024. “Japan's 'consensual' variety of digital capitalism.” Asia Pacific Business Review 30(3): 596–612.
• Kümmerle, H. 2023. “More Than a Certification Scheme: Information Banks in Japan.” In: Adopting and Adapting Innovation in Japan's Digital Transformation. Singapore: Springer, 193–211.
• Kümmerle, H. 2022. “Japanese data strategies, global surveillance capitalism, and the 'LINE problem'.” Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 3(1): 134–159.
• Kumare, H. 2021. "Doctoral dissertation: 'The Institutionalization of Mathematics as a Science in Japan during the Meiji and Taisho Eras'," *Proceedings of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Supplementary Volume*, B85: 143–153.
• Kümmerle, H. 2018. “Hayashi Tsuruichi and the success of the Tôhoku Mathematical Journal.” In: Mathematics of Takebe Katahiro and History of Mathematics in East Asia. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan, 347–358.