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
Torsten Weber
2019
12. September 2019Wielding Toxic Discourse: Insanity in the Nuclear Narratives of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
27. Juni 2019
Between Contributor and Competitor: Recent Trends in how the Chinese Government views Japan
Shi Ming, Berlin
28. Februar 2019
Writing (in) Iwate: Exploring a Local Literary Scene and its Fiction
Tamara Kamerer, University of Vienna
30. Januar 2019
Inscribing Edible Otherness: Intersections of Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Zainichi Poetry
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University / Trier University
2018
6. November 2018Depictions of Beethoven in Japanese Anime: Japanese Visual Arts Transforming Western Iconography
Heike Hoffer, The Ohio State University
15. Oktober 2018
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
20. September 2018
[CANCELLED] Representations of Gender and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Korean-Japanese Narratives
Maren Haufs-Brusberg, Trier University
2. Juli 2018
Fūdo 風土: From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept
David W. Johnson, Boston College
7. Juni 2018
History-writing and the Public Sphere in Japan: 1945-1955
Curtis Anderson Gayle, Waseda University
15. März 2018
Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse
Jana Katzenberg, University of Cologne
1. März 2018
Informal Figures of Japanese Imperialism: the political activism of the Gen'yōsha
Grégoire Sastre, Waseda University
8. Februar 2018
German Prisoners of War in Japan 1914-1920: towards a new narrative
Frank Käser, JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo
25. Januar 2018
Japan's Industrial Policy toward Technology Transfers and Business History: Signalling and Administrative Guidance, 1950-1975
Jonathan Krautter, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
2017
7. Dezember 2017Prisons and Forced Labour on Hokkaido
Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
8. November 2017
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
12. Oktober 2017
Prolonging Youthfulness: An Investigation of the bimajo Phenomenon in Japan
Satoshi Ota, Tama University
17. August 2017
Transcultural Potentials of Japanese Fan Work: First Field Results
Katharina Hülsmann, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
6. Juli 2017
Gender Representations in East Asian Television Advertisements: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
Michael Prieler, Hallym University
26. Juni 2017
Womenomics - Remedy or Illusion?
Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School
8. Juni 2017
Revolution and Empire: the Northern Expedition in the Japanese Press, 1926-28
Andrea Revelant, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice/Keio University SGUP
25. Mai 2017
Seoul's Namsan under Japanese Influence - Japanese Ritual Life and Assimilation Policy in Korea, 1890-1945
Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
23. März 2017
Towards an Intellectual History of Japan’s 1980s Bubble Culture and Economy
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Freie Universität Berlin
26. Januar 2017
The Ideologue and Activist Ōkawa Shūmei (1886-1957)
Florian Neumann, Kagawa University, Takamatsu
2016
8. Dezember 2016Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War
Noriko Kawamura, Washington State University
24. März 2016
Negotiating “Superstition” and “Religion”: The Case of the “Immoral Heresies Tenrikyō and Renmonkyō” in Meiji Japan
Franziska Steffen, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
10. März 2016
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
4. Februar 2016
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)
14. Januar 2016
King Solomon and Jinmu Tennō: Ethiopia and Japan in World History
Gerhard Krebs
7. Januar 2016
Leaving Japan and Leading the Oppressed: Chinese Intellectuals’ Engagement with Asianist Organizations in the late-1920s
Craig A. Smith, Kyoto University
2015
29. Juli 2015Choosing Ways of Remembering: Comparing Student Narratives about World War II in Japan and Germany
Ingvild Bode & Seunghoon Emilia Heo, United Nations University & Sophia University
18. Juni 2015
Imperial Memory in Postcolonial Japanese and South Korean Short Fiction
Nadeschda Bachem, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
21. Mai 2015
Samurai, Castles, and the Search for the Soul of Japan
Oleg Benesch, University of York
17. April 2015
To Fight or Not to Fight: The Role of Intelligence in Japan’s Decision for Pearl Harbor
Tosh Minohara, Kobe University
26. Februar 2015
How Meiji Japan Governed Foreigners: Determining Failure and Success of Treaty Revision
Kaoru Iokibe, University of Tokyo
2014
22. Mai 2014Fujita Tsuguharu’s Troubled Choices
Doug Slaymaker, Meiji University/University of Kentucky
22. April 2014
Historical Legacies of Yasukuni Shrine
Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky
8. April 2014
A ‘MAD’ age: War, Student Protest and Consumer Culture in 1960s Japan
Martyn Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
21. Januar 2014
Cabaret as an Artistic Beachhead: The Case of Butoh
Bruce Baird, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2013
10. Dezember 2013Introducing Nuclear Power – The Struggle of Japan`s Physicists
Franziska John, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
28. November 2013
Channelling Influence through Experts: British and German Oyatoi in Meiji Japan
Kristin Meißner, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
24. Oktober 2013
Prisoners of war from Tsingtao during the First World War: A Comparative Perspective
Mahon Murphy, London School of Economics and Political Science
3. September 2013
Prospects of the Coastal Fishery in Northern Pacific Tōhoku in the Aftermath of 3.11
Johannes Wilhelm, University of Vienna
18. Juli 2013
Media representations of Okinawa: a postcolonial perspective
Ina Hein, University of Vienna
11. Juli 2013
The Bullet Train and Techno-internationalism
Jessamyn R. Abel, Pennsylvania State University
11. Juni 2013
Intellectuals and the ‘Happiness’ of the People
Simone Müller, Zurich University
17. Mai 2013
Another Part of the Axis? Japan’s Wars and Spain, 1937-45
Florentino Rodao, Complutense University (Madrid)
17. April 2013
Early Modern Japanese-Spanish Relations between Micro and Macro History
Birgit Tremml, University of Tokyo
27. März 2013
Spatializations of Food Safety in Contemporary Japan
Cornelia Reiher, Halle University
27. Februar 2013
The Invisible Hand of the Writer: The Advent of the Japanese Typewriter and the Anonymity of Information Exchange in Japanese Corporations
Raja Adal, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
30. Januar 2013
Terayama Shūji as Global Artist and his Impact on Postwar Japan’s Culture
Carolin Fleischer, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien