Events
2020
Assimilation Policies and Ainu Identity
Questioning Japan's Recognition of the Ainu People as Indigenous
Uwe Makino, Chuo University (Tokyo)
Improving Japan’s Disability Employment
From Separate to Inclusive Workplaces
Reiko Nishida, PhD, The University of Tokyo
The new Japanese Fishery Policies between Revitalization and Capitalization
Susanne Auerbach, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
2019
User-driven Innovation in Health- & Elderly Care in Japan
Sarah Cosentino, Waseda University
Nobu Ishiguro, Osaka University
The Future of Society – German and Japanese Perspectives
Image(-Text) correlations in the works of Natsume Sōseki
Kevin Schumacher, University of Munich / DIJ
Political Communication in the Age of New Media - Investigating the Reception of Right-Wing Populist Communication Strategies in the Japanese Blog Scene
Katharina Dalko, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Mobilities and the Geographicity of Law. Lessons for Japan
Mathis Stock
Leadership in a Digital World: Innovative – Human – Collaborative
A New Era of Immigration? Japan’s Guest Worker Programs in Comparative Perspective
Naoto Higuchi, Tokushima University
Kristin Surak, University of London
Autism in the Workplace - How the Diagnosis of a Developmental Disorder Affects Employment Situations in Japan
Charlotte Schaefer, University of Heidelberg
Environmental Local Scales: Women’s Writing in Northern Tōhoku, Present to Postwar
Eric Siercks, University of California, Los Angeles
Universities in the Digital Age
Bernd Huber, President of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Miho Funamori, Strategy Manager at the Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform at National Institute of Informatics
120. Geburtstag von Yasunari Kawabata
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
– Engaging civil society in social science and humanities research –
The Digital Transformation - Implications for the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Renewable Energy in Germany and Japan - Prospects for the Citizen Energy Movement
Carsten Herbes, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany
Jörg Raupach-Sumiya, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka
Eiji Oishi, Minna Denryoku, Tokyo
Shrinking but Happy? Investigating the Interplay of Social and Individual-Level Predictors of Well-Being in Rural Japanese Communities
Dionyssios Askitis, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
The Politics of Migration in Japan
Wielding Toxic Discourse: Insanity in the Nuclear Narratives of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
The Mountains Belong to Everybody? Conflicts about Recreational Forest Use in Austria and Japan
Yuichiro Hirano, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba
Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna
Contemporary Japanese Theatre Workshop
Studying Japan: The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation on methods, fieldwork and research ethics
Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools
Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University
Between Contributor and Competitor: Recent Trends in how the Chinese Government views Japan
Shi Ming, Berlin
Local Responses to the Revision of the Seed Law: The Seed Registration System, GMOs and Rice
Nicole L. Freiner, Bryant University
Making the Most of Scarcity? The Role of Natural Assets in Pre-WWII Japanese Economic Development
Jean-Pascal Bassino, ENS Lyon; CNRS research fellow at the French Research Institute on Japan at Maison Franco Japonaise
Farmers, Local Agency, and the Development of Peri-Urban Spaces
Aaron Kingsbury, PhD, Maine Maritime Academy
Technologies of Presence: Modeling Emotion in Robots with Heart
Daniel White, Freie Universität Berlin & Hirofumi Katsuno, Doshisha University
Androids and Virtual Reality – Simulations of the Human in Japanese Theatre
Mari Boyd, Sophia University, Tokyo
M. Cody Poulton, University of Victoria, Canada
Merits and Challenges of Deliberative Democracy in Japan
Momoyo Hüstebeck, University of Duisburg-Essen
How Can We Explain the Lag of Japan’s Sharing Economy?
Junxi Yao, University of Sheffield
Protecting Children in Family Separation
Yuko Nishitani, Kyoto University
Noriko Odagiri, Tokyo International University
Autonomy, Belonging and Long-Distance Relationships in Europe and Japan
Markus Klingel, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
国際シンポジウム「桑田熊蔵とその同時代人：社会思想・社会問題・社会政策（1890-1930）」、大阪大学
Yufei Zhou, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Regulating for a Better Work-life Balance: German and Japanese Experiences
Hartmut Seifert, WSI Düsseldorf
Katsutoshi Kezuka, Chuo University
Nō und Kyōgen
Writing (in) Iwate: Exploring a Local Literary Scene and its Fiction
Tamara Kamerer, University of Vienna
What Happens Abroad Stays Abroad? Expatriates’ Psychological Contracts
Tassilo Schuster, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Inscribing Edible Otherness: Intersections of Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Zainichi Poetry
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University / Trier University
2018
マルクス生誕200周年記念国際シンポジウム、法政大学
Yufei Zhou, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Labour Market Liberalisation after the Lehman Crisis: Comparing France, Germany and Japan
“Inner city life, inner city pressure”. Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses
Florian Purkarthofer, University of Vienna
日文研共同研究会「中国近代革命の思想的起源」(第四回研究会), 国際日本文化研究センター
Torsten Weber, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Anthropology on Japan in Japan Fall Meeting in Nagoya
Barbara Geilhorn, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
ジャパン・ウォッチャーが目撃した『平成ニッポン30年』
第一届日本研究青年学者论坛，中国社会科学院日本研究所
Yufei Zhou, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
公開ワークショップ「アジア主義・再考 ――近代思想史の視点から」共同研究プロジェクト「アジアの中の近代日本思想」東北大学
Torsten Weber, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Work Style Reform, Gender Time Gap, Work-Life Balance, and Gender Equality in Japan and Germany
Depictions of Beethoven in Japanese Anime: Japanese Visual Arts Transforming Western Iconography
Heike Hoffer, The Ohio State University