DIJ History & Humanities Study Group
Die DIJ History & Humanities Study Group versteht sich als Forum für Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen sowie Doktoranden, die zu einem geschichts- oder geisteswissenschaftlichen Thema arbeiten. In einem etwa 45minütigen Vortrag werden laufende Forschungsarbeiten vorgestellt und daran anschließend diskutiert. Vortragssprache ist in der Regel Englisch.
Wenn Sie Interesse daran haben, einen Vortrag zu halten, wenden Sie sich bitte an die Organisatoren:
Isaac Gagné
Barbara Geilhorn
Harald Kümmerle
2021
Croft, Quiet, and Kantai Collection: Female Bodies in Japanese Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
‘Radioactive Aesthetics’: Distance and Avisuality in Post-Fukushima Literature
Chiara Pavone, University of California, Los Angeles
2020
Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman
Discussing Gender Identity and Society in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Ronald Saladin, Trier University
Cute Masculinity - Investigating the Meaning of Virtual Shōjo and Girl Parody by Young Men in the 2010s
Sharon Kinsella, The University of Manchester
Learning to be funny: Training and social relationships in Rakugo - POSTPONED -
Sarah Stark, Ghent University
Why Is It So Difficult to Buy a Ticket for the Musical? Adaptive Innovation in Japanese Musical Theater from the 1960s to the Present
Rina Tanaka, Meiji University
2019
Image(-Text) correlations in the works of Natsume Sōseki
Kevin Schumacher, University of Munich / DIJ
Environmental Local Scales: Women’s Writing in Northern Tōhoku, Present to Postwar
Eric Siercks, University of California, Los Angeles
Wielding Toxic Discourse: Insanity in the Nuclear Narratives of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
Between Contributor and Competitor: Recent Trends in how the Chinese Government views Japan
Shi Ming, Berlin
Writing (in) Iwate: Exploring a Local Literary Scene and its Fiction
Tamara Kamerer, University of Vienna
Inscribing Edible Otherness: Intersections of Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Zainichi Poetry
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University / Trier University
2018
Depictions of Beethoven in Japanese Anime: Japanese Visual Arts Transforming Western Iconography
Heike Hoffer, The Ohio State University
Japanese studies as an occupation: Career planning for Early Career Researchers in theory and practice (A lecture and practical exercise)
Peter Matanle, University of Sheffield
[CANCELLED] Representations of Gender and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Korean-Japanese Narratives
Maren Haufs-Brusberg, Trier University
Fūdo 風土: From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept
David W. Johnson, Boston College
History-writing and the Public Sphere in Japan: 1945-1955
Curtis Anderson Gayle, Waseda University
Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse
Jana Katzenberg, University of Cologne
Informal Figures of Japanese Imperialism: the political activism of the Gen'yōsha
Grégoire Sastre, Waseda University
German Prisoners of War in Japan 1914-1920: towards a new narrative
Frank Käser, JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo
Japan's Industrial Policy toward Technology Transfers and Business History: Signalling and Administrative Guidance, 1950-1975
Jonathan Krautter, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
2017
Prisons and Forced Labour on Hokkaido
Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
The transfer of knowledge between Germany and Japan in the late Meiji and early Taishō eras: A case study of Georg Würfel (1880-1936)
Reik Jagno, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Prolonging Youthfulness: An Investigation of the bimajo Phenomenon in Japan
Satoshi Ota, Tama University
Transcultural Potentials of Japanese Fan Work: First Field Results
Katharina Hülsmann, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Gender Representations in East Asian Television Advertisements: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
Michael Prieler, Hallym University
Womenomics - Remedy or Illusion?
Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School
Revolution and Empire: the Northern Expedition in the Japanese Press, 1926-28
Andrea Revelant, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice/Keio University SGUP
Seoul's Namsan under Japanese Influence - Japanese Ritual Life and Assimilation Policy in Korea, 1890-1945
Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
Towards an Intellectual History of Japan’s 1980s Bubble Culture and Economy
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Freie Universität Berlin
The Ideologue and Activist Ōkawa Shūmei (1886-1957)
Florian Neumann, Kagawa University, Takamatsu
2016
Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War
Noriko Kawamura, Washington State University
Negotiating “Superstition” and “Religion”: The Case of the “Immoral Heresies Tenrikyō and Renmonkyō” in Meiji Japan
Franziska Steffen, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Collective Subjectivity and Apology Under the Gaze of the ‘International Community’: A Lacanian Analysis of the Apology Issue in Japan-China Relations
Hai Guo, University of Leeds
What is human dignity? And could it provide a common ethical foundation between cultures? The examples of Germany and Japan
Ralf Stoecker (Bielefeld University) together with Miki Aoyama (DIJ)
King Solomon and Jinmu Tennō: Ethiopia and Japan in World History
Gerhard Krebs
Leaving Japan and Leading the Oppressed: Chinese Intellectuals’ Engagement with Asianist Organizations in the late-1920s
Craig A. Smith, Kyoto University
2015
Choosing Ways of Remembering: Comparing Student Narratives about World War II in Japan and Germany
Ingvild Bode & Seunghoon Emilia Heo, United Nations University & Sophia University
Imperial Memory in Postcolonial Japanese and South Korean Short Fiction
Nadeschda Bachem, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Samurai, Castles, and the Search for the Soul of Japan
Oleg Benesch, University of York
To Fight or Not to Fight: The Role of Intelligence in Japan’s Decision for Pearl Harbor
Tosh Minohara, Kobe University
How Meiji Japan Governed Foreigners: Determining Failure and Success of Treaty Revision
Kaoru Iokibe, University of Tokyo
2014
Fujita Tsuguharu’s Troubled Choices
Doug Slaymaker, Meiji University/University of Kentucky
Historical Legacies of Yasukuni Shrine
Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky
A ‘MAD’ age: War, Student Protest and Consumer Culture in 1960s Japan
Martyn Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Cabaret as an Artistic Beachhead: The Case of Butoh
Bruce Baird, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2013
Introducing Nuclear Power – The Struggle of Japan`s Physicists
Franziska John, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Channelling Influence through Experts: British and German Oyatoi in Meiji Japan
Kristin Meißner, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Prisoners of war from Tsingtao during the First World War: A Comparative Perspective
Mahon Murphy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Prospects of the Coastal Fishery in Northern Pacific Tōhoku in the Aftermath of 3.11
Johannes Wilhelm, University of Vienna