DIJ History & Humanities Study Group

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 and earlier

Organizers: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (iwata@dijtokyo.org) / Susanne Klien (klien@dijtokyo.org)

The DIJ History & Humanities Study Group is an informal forum for young scholars and Ph.D. candidates working in the field of history or the humanities. Speakers are asked to give a 45 min presentation, which is followed by a discussion session.Presentations should be given in English or Japanese.


2010

July 28th 2010:
Birgit Binder; Emma Cook, Waseda University; Ronald Saladin, Trier/Musashi University

Discursive constructions of masculinities, past and present

June 23rd 2010:
Michael Facius, Freie Universität Berlin

“Chinese Knowledge” and the Meiji Restoration

June 2nd 2010:
Thorsten Pattberg, Harvard University

On Sages and Sageness in the Eyes of the European Orientalists

March 3rd 2010:
Maria Grajdian, Heidelberg University

Happy New Japan: The Ideology and Aesthetics of Happiness in Takarazuka Revue

February 17th 2010:
Kiyoshi Ueda

Hiraizumi Kiyoshi and the ‘Spiritual’ Consolidation of the Nation, 1931-1936

January 27th 2010:
Elke Hayashi, Sophia University

Moments of Misunderstanding: Intercultural Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior in Japan


2009

November 25th 2009:
Rie Suzuki, University of Essex

Assessment in Japanese Conversation: Relationality and the Expanded Notion of Self

October 21st 2009:
Anja Osiander, Freie Universität Berlin

The Two Bodies of the Tenno – Nation and Politics During the Long 1930's in Japan

September 24th 2009:
Cosima Wagner, Goethe University Frankfurt

“Robophily” as National Character? Discussing the Popularity of Robots in Japan

June 17th 2009:
Daniela Tan, Zürich University

Looking Through the Flower: Vision and Voice in Ōba Minako’s Novels

May 20th 2009:
Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State University

Mythic Archetypes and Modernist Architectures of the Anime Metropolis

March 10th 2009:
Eike Grossmann, Goethe University Frankfurt

Kurokawa Noh: Self-perception, Self-presentation and the Outside Gaze


2008

December 17th 2008:
Lena Fritsch, Bonn University

Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago) and Japanese Art Photography in the 1990’s

October 22nd 2008:
Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University

Liberated Women or Keepers of “Japanese Tradition”? Actresses of Kyōgen and their Strategies of Public Profiling

October 15th 2008:
John Treat, Yale University

The Moral Subject Under Japanese Colonialism

June 25th 2008:
Hsiu-Jane Chen, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Center for Human and Health Sciences of Charité (Berlin)

Practices of Transferring German Medical Culture to Meiji Japan

May 14th 2008:
Jason G. Karlin, University of Tokyo

National Heroes and the Struggle for Masculinization in Meiji Japan

March 6th 2008:
Till Weingärtner, University of Kansai

Manzai – Analysing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy

February 6th 2008:
Chris Winkler, University of Munich

Japan’s Conservatives and the Quest for Constitutional Reform


2007

October 24th 2007:
Robin Tierney, University of Iowa

Shono Yoriko’s Pure Literature Debate – or, hyper-personal imagination as a tool against neo-liberalism

September 26th 2007:
Robert McKenzie, University of Glasgow

Homogeneous Social Evaluations? Japanese University Students' Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties

March 6th 2007:
Bettina C. Rabe, doctoral student, Heidelberg University

Contemporary Human Rights Education in Japan: What Do Textbooks Teach?

January 26th 2007:
Christina Ghanbarpour, University of California, Irvine

Changing Traditions: The Role of Japanese Village Women in the Modernization of Japan

January 17th 2007:
Seth Jacobowitz, Harvard University

Writing Technology as Alternative Modernity: Transparency, Transcriptive Realism and Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows


2006

November 22nd 2006:
Teja Ostheider, Kinki University

Communication with Foreigners in Japan: A Sociolinguistic Discussion

June 14th 2006:
Bettina Lockemann

Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography

February 15th 2006:
Thomas Hackner, Trier University

Between Identity Formation and Alienation – Landscape in Japanese Literature, 1894-1905


2005

November 30th 2005:
Griseldis Kirsch

A Vision of Horror or a Source of Salvation? Encounters with China in Japanese Film and TV Drama

October 18th 2005:
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

Family, Home, and Memories: On Shamanistic (De-) Constructions of Identity in Yu Miri's Hachigatsu no hate

October 4th 2005:
Fabian Schaefer, University of Leipzig, University of Tokyo

The Origins of Media and Communications Research in Pre-war Japan: Constructivist and Critical Perspectives

August 3rd 2005:
Mark McNally, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Who Speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku Leadership in 19th-Century Japan

July 13th 2005:
Sybille Höhe

The Concept of Value-Creating Education in the Pedagogy of Sōka Gakkai

May 11th 2005:
Hoi-eun Kim, Harvard University

“Bio-sophers”? German Physicians as “Ethnographers” of Meiji Japan

March 30th 2005:
Sven Saaler

Men in Metal — A Topography of Japanese Public Statuary in Bronze

March 2nd 2005:
Makiko Yamanashi, University of Edinburgh

The Takarasienne and Moga: Modernity in the Prewar Girls' Culture

February 2nd 2005:
Peter Backhaus, University of Duisburg-Essen

Multilingualism in Tokyo – Reading the Signs

January 5th 2005:
Leslie Winston, Dickinson College

In Search of the Perfect Body: Intersexuality as Trope for Reading the Female Subject


2004

October 20th 2004:
Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University

Women on the Noh-Stage: Pioneers after a Century of Performing

October 6th 2004:
Monika Dix, University of British Columbia / Kokugakuin University

Writing Women into Religious Histories: Re-reading Representations of Chūjōhime in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

August 25th 2004:
Hu Tze Yue, Waseda University/ Nanyang Technological University, College of Engineering

Dream of dreams, becoming Disney of Asia

July 7th 2004:
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Tübingen University/Wesleyan University CT

A Woman's Critique of Male Academics in Early Nineteenth Century Japan

June 23rd 2004:
Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University

Discourse Networks of the Post in Meiji Japan

May 19th 2004:
Ahmed Naili, Graduate School of Commerce, Meiji University

Japan's Relations with the Arab Countries

April 19th 2004:
Daqing Yang, George Washington University

Early Postwar Japanese Reconciliation with China: Was the Glass Half Full?

April 7th 2004:
Katja Triplett, Marburg University

Answers to Big Questions: Contemporary Buddhist Guides to Life Management

March 22nd 2004:
Michael Wachutka, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Meiji-period kokugaku: activities of Hirata-school scholars, Iida Takesato and the Oyashima-gakkai

February 18th 2004:
Mark Metzler, Assistant Professor of History, Oakland University

'Positive Policy,' 'Negative Policy,' and the Economics of Taishō Democracy

January 21st 2004:
Robert Hoppens, University of Washington

The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and Japanese Perceptions of the People's Republic of China


2003

December 10th 2003:
Shimazu Naoko, Birkbeck University of London

The Making of a Heroic War Myth in the Russo-Japanese War

November 12th 2003:
Matthias Zachmann, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg/DIJ

China's Role in the Process of Japan's Cultural Self-Identification, 1895-1904

October 8th 2003:
Gaynor Sekimori, The University of Tokyo

Shugendo and the Separation of Buddha and kami Worship (shinbutsu bunri): the case of Hagurosan 1870-1875

July 3rd 2003:
Barak Kushner, Davidson College

Digesting Postwar Japan Media

June 6th 2003:
Eun-Jeung Lee, University of Halle-Wittenberg

The History of the Reception of the Confucianism in Germany since early Enlightenment

April 23rd 2003:
Nishiyama Takashi, Ohio State University/Tōkyō University

From Kamikaze Aircraft to the Bullet Train: Social Variables for Technology Transfer in post-World War II Japan

March 19th 2003:
Oliver Loidl, University of Tübingen

The "Japanese Workers' School" as an Example of Workers' Education in Prewar Japan

March 5th 2003:
Eva Kaminski, University of Hamburg

The Aesthetics of the Momoyama Period and Its Appeal to Contemporary German Ceramists

February 12th 2003:
Levi McLaughlin, Kokugakuin University

Fusing Western Culture and Japanese Religion: The Religious Experience of Musicians in Sōka Gakkai

January 15th 2003:
Shogo Suzuki, Australian National University

The Zone of Peace in the East Asian International System?


2002

December 4th 2002:
Mara Patessio, University of Cambridge

Women Missionaries' Activities and Christian Education for Girls in early Meiji Japan

November 13th 2002:
Monika Schrimpf

How to live a happy life – morality and conduct of life in a Japanese New Religion

September 19th 2002:
Hans Martin Krämer, Ruhr-University Bochum/Tōkyō University

Dismissal, Reinstatement, Resignation. The Politics of Higher Education Personnel from Prewar to Occupation Period Japan, 1930 to 1952

July 9th 2002:
Jens Sagen, International Christian University (ICU)

A Battle against Tradition? The Establishment of the Air Wing of the Imperial Japanese Navy

March 27th 2002:
Jackie J. Kim

Life History Narratives of First Generation Korean Immigrant Women in Japan

February 13th 2002:
Roger Brown, University of Southern California

Reviving Oriental Culture and Cultivating Patriotic Gentlemen: Yasuoka Masahiro, Conservative Political Morality and Right-Wing Nationalism in the Taishō Period

January 16th 2002:
Michael A. Schneider, Knox College/Waseda University

Feminine Internationalism and the International Body Politic: Consumers as Diplomats in Japan, 1919-1960


2001

December 4th 2001:
Christoph Brumann, Cologne University

Fighting for Kyoto: Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape in the Former Imperial Capital

November 7th 2001:
Harald Meyer, Universität Zürich/Kanazawa University

Abe Isoo's Idealistic Views of Switzerland and Democratic Ideas in Late Meiji- and Taisho-Japan

September 26th 2001:
Nicola Liscutin

Report on the Peaceboat North South Korea Voyage – “Setting sail for a new Asia”

July 11th 2001:
Nicole Altmeier

The Japanese National Government Park System - More Than Just Another Public Works Project?

June 20th 2001:
John Namjun Kim, Cornell University

Miki Kiyoshi and the Crisis of Cultural Consciousness

May 23rd 2001:
Melek Ortabasi, University of Washington

Competing Conceptions of Modern Selfhood

May 16th 2001:
Anke Scherer, Ruhr-University Bochum

The Bunson-Movement in the 1930s and 1940s:How Japanese Bureaucrats Tried to Bring Millions of Agricultural Settlers to Manchuria

April 25th 2001:
Jayson Chun, University of Oregon

Television Audiences and National Identity in Postwar Japan

March 14th 2001:
Sven Saaler

Military and Politics in Modern Japan: The Imperial Army during the Meiji and Taisho Era

February 14th 2001:
Dr. Gaye Rowley, Kyoto University

Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's "Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle"

January 24th 2001:
Susanne Koppensteiner, University of Vienna

Re-locating Civilization. Western Learning, Nationalist Thought and the Discourse on the "Civilized" and "Barbarian" in Late Tokugawa Japan


2000

December 13th 2000:
Reglindis Helmer

How to move the hearts of a 100 million - Yamamoto Kajiro's war and propaganda film

November 15th 2000:
Harald Salomon

Cinema, State and "National Culture" in Wartime Japan: Fictional Narratives of Self and Other as Recommended by the Ministry of Education, 1940-44

October 11th 2000:
Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne

Some Literary and Political Considerations of Ri Kai Sei

July 12th 2000:
Nancy Stalker, Stanford University

Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period

June 21st 2000:
Sarah Teasley

Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village

May 17th 2000:
Katrin Paul (Photographer), Tama Art University

The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

March 2nd 2000:
David Averbach, University of Berkeley

"Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."

February 10th 2000:
David Lurie, Columbia University

"The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"

January 20th 2000:
Youngmi Lim, City University of New York

"What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"


1999

December 9th 1999:
Ted Mack, Harvard University

Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō

November 10th 1999:
Laura Moretti, University of Venice

The dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature

October 21st 1999:
Alisa Freedman, University of Chicago

Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature

July 8th 1999:
Tracey Gannon, Ritsumeikan University

Writing minority/Reading minority

June 10th 1999:
Katja Cassing Nakamura, Universität Trier

Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?

May 13th 1999:
Bettina Gildenhard, Universität Heidelberg

The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System

April 22nd 1999:
Ruth Jäschke

"Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando

March 18th 1999:
Dr. Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek, FU Berlin

Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert

February 10th 1999:
Ina Hein, Universität Trier

Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"

January 21st 1999:
Susanne Phillipps, Freie Universität Berlin

Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German)


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