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DIJ History & Humanities Study Group
The DIJ History & Humanities Study Group is an informal forum for scholars and Ph.D. candidates working in any field of history or the humanities. Speakers are asked to give a 45 min presentation, which is followed by a discussion session. Presentations are usually given in English.
If you are interested in presenting, please contact the Study Group organizers:
2016
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, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Channelling Influence through Experts: British and German Oyatoi in Meiji Japan
Kristin Meißner, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
Media representations of Okinawa: a postcolonial perspective
Ina Hein, University of Vienna
The Bullet Train and Techno-internationalism
Jessamyn R. Abel, Pennsylvania State University
Intellectuals and the ‘Happiness’ of the People
Simone Müller, Zurich University
Another Part of the Axis? Japan’s Wars and Spain, 1937-45
Florentino Rodao, Complutense University (Madrid)
Early Modern Japanese-Spanish Relations between Micro and Macro History
Birgit Tremml, University of Tokyo
Spatializations of Food Safety in Contemporary Japan
Cornelia Reiher, Halle University
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
Terayama Shūji as Global Artist and his Impact on Postwar Japan’s Culture
Carolin Fleischer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2012
Negotiating Nuclear Disaster - Japanese Theater after 3.11
Barbara Geilhorn, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Contemporary Pilgrims' Perceptions of the 88 Temple Pilgrimage on Shikoku Island
Ryofu Pussel
You’ve got sp@m: A corpus-linguistic analysis of Japanese dating invitation mails
Peter Backhaus, Waseda University
Shimazaki Toson as Writer and Educator: Double-faced or Multifaceted?
Irina Holca, Osaka University
Rakugo: Contemporary Entertainment or Classical Performing Art?
Till Weingaertner, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Russian-Japanese Borderlands and the Change of National Consciousness in Japan around 1800
Julian Plenefisch, Freie Universität Berlin
Female same-sex attraction in manga: Yuri – exploring the mechanisms of a genre
Verena Maser, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2011
Rite of Redemption? Japanese Canadians, Remembrance Day, and the Restorative Power of Ritual
Hisako Omori, Meiji Gakuin University
Golf Clubbing in Modern Japan
Angus Lockyer, SOAS, University of London
Earthquakes and Art ― The Great Kantō Earthquake in the Work of Takehi sa Yumeji
Sabine Schenk, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Ubugami – Gods of Childbirth in Japanese Folk Belief
Christian Göhlert, Munich University/Seijo University Tokyo
The Early Asian Games and Predecessors (1913-1978): Sport and Media Orchestration between Transnational Experience and Representations of the Nation
Stefan Hübner, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Traveling Protagonists: Trains as Metaphor in the Fiction of Natsume Soseki and Tawada Yoko
Christine Glensted and Annette Vilslev, Waseda University / University of Copenhagen
Rethinking Haiku Analysis: Neocybernetic Approaches
Nami Ohi, University of Tokyo
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 1945-1995: The Creation and Transformation of a lieu de mémoire in Socio-Political Perspective
Stefanie Schäfer, Free University Berlin
2010
Contemporary Japanese Theatre: A “post-sociocritical” Stage?
Lisa Mundt, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Discursive constructions of masculinities, past and present
Emma Cook, Waseda University; Ronald Saladin, Trier/Musashi University
Biru David Binder, German Institute for Japanese Studies
“Chinese Knowledge” and the Meiji Restoration
Michael Facius, Freie Universität Berlin
On Sages and Sageness in the Eyes of the European Orientalists
Thorsten Pattberg, Harvard University
Happy New Japan: The Ideology and Aesthetics of Happiness in Takarazuka Revue
Maria Grajdian, Heidelberg University
Hiraizumi Kiyoshi and the ‘Spiritual’ Consolidation of the Nation, 1931-1936
Kiyoshi Ueda
Moments of Misunderstanding: Intercultural Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior in Japan
Elke Hayashi, Sophia University
2009
Assessment in Japanese Conversation: Relationality and the Expanded Notion of Self
Rie Suzuki, University of Essex
The Two Bodies of the Tenno – Nation and Politics During the Long 1930's in Japan
Anja Osiander, Freie Universität Berlin
“Robophily” as National Character? Discussing the Popularity of Robots in Japan
Cosima Wagner, Goethe University Frankfurt
Looking Through the Flower: Vision and Voice in Ōba Minako’s Novels
Daniela Tan, Zürich University
Mythic Archetypes and Modernist Architectures of the Anime Metropolis
Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State University