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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:
2009
Kurokawa Noh: Self-perception, Self-presentation and the Outside Gaze
Eike Grossmann, Goethe University Frankfurt
2008
Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago) and Japanese Art Photography in the 1990’s
Lena Fritsch, Bonn University
Liberated Women or Keepers of “Japanese Tradition”? Actresses of Kyōgen and their Strategies of Public Profiling
Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University
The Moral Subject Under Japanese Colonialism
John Treat, Yale University
Practices of Transferring German Medical Culture to Meiji Japan
Hsiu-Jane Chen, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Center for Human and Health Sciences of Charité (Berlin)
National Heroes and the Struggle for Masculinization in Meiji Japan
Jason G. Karlin, University of Tokyo
Manzai – Analysing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy
Till Weingärtner, University of Kansai
Japan’s Conservatives and the Quest for Constitutional Reform
Chris Winkler, University of Munich
2007
Shono Yoriko’s Pure Literature Debate – or, hyper-personal imagination as a tool against neo-liberalism
Robin Tierney, University of Iowa
Homogeneous Social Evaluations? Japanese University Students' Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties
Robert McKenzie, University of Glasgow
Contemporary Human Rights Education in Japan: What Do Textbooks Teach?
Bettina C. Rabe, doctoral student, Heidelberg University
Changing Traditions: The Role of Japanese Village Women in the Modernization of Japan
Christina Ghanbarpour, University of California, Irvine
Writing Technology as Alternative Modernity: Transparency, Transcriptive Realism and Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows
Seth Jacobowitz, Harvard University
2006
Communication with Foreigners in Japan: A Sociolinguistic Discussion
Teja Ostheider, Kinki University
Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography
Bettina Lockemann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Between Identity Formation and Alienation – Landscape in Japanese Literature, 1894-1905
Thomas Hackner, Trier University
2005
A Vision of Horror or a Source of Salvation? Encounters with China in Japanese Film and TV Drama
Griseldis Kirsch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Family, Home, and Memories: On Shamanistic (De-) Constructions of Identity in Yu Miri's Hachigatsu no hate
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Origins of Media and Communications Research in Pre-war Japan: Constructivist and Critical Perspectives
Fabian Schaefer, University of Leipzig, University of Tokyo
Who Speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku Leadership in 19th-Century Japan
Mark McNally, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Concept of Value-Creating Education in the Pedagogy of Sōka Gakkai
Sybille Höhe, German Institute for Japanese Studies
“Bio-sophers”? German Physicians as “Ethnographers” of Meiji Japan
Hoi-eun Kim, Harvard University
Men in Metal — A Topography of Japanese Public Statuary in Bronze
Sven Saaler, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Takarasienne and Moga: Modernity in the Prewar Girls' Culture
Makiko Yamanashi, University of Edinburgh
Multilingualism in Tokyo – Reading the Signs
Peter Backhaus, University of Duisburg-Essen
In Search of the Perfect Body: Intersexuality as Trope for Reading the Female Subject
Leslie Winston, Dickinson College
2004
Women on the Noh-Stage: Pioneers after a Century of Performing
Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University
Writing Women into Religious Histories: Re-reading Representations of Chūjōhime in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Monika Dix, University of British Columbia / Kokugakuin University
Dream of dreams, becoming Disney of Asia
Hu Tze Yue, Waseda University/ Nanyang Technological University, College of Engineering
A Woman's Critique of Male Academics in Early Nineteenth Century Japan
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Tübingen University/Wesleyan University CT
Discourse Networks of the Post in Meiji Japan
Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University
Japan's Relations with the Arab Countries
Ahmed Naili, Graduate School of Commerce, Meiji University
Early Postwar Japanese Reconciliation with China: Was the Glass Half Full?
Daqing Yang, George Washington University
Answers to Big Questions: Contemporary Buddhist Guides to Life Management
Katja Triplett, Marburg University
Meiji-period kokugaku: activities of Hirata-school scholars, Iida Takesato and the Oyashima-gakkai
Michael Wachutka, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
'Positive Policy,' 'Negative Policy,' and the Economics of Taishō Democracy
Mark Metzler, Assistant Professor of History, Oakland University
The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and Japanese Perceptions of the People's Republic of China
Robert Hoppens, University of Washington
2003
The Making of a Heroic War Myth in the Russo-Japanese War
Shimazu Naoko, Birkbeck University of London
China's Role in the Process of Japan's Cultural Self-Identification, 1895-1904
Matthias Zachmann, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg/DIJ
Shugendo and the Separation of Buddha and kami Worship (shinbutsu bunri): the case of Hagurosan 1870-1875
Gaynor Sekimori, The University of Tokyo
Digesting Postwar Japan Media
Barak Kushner, Davidson College
The History of the Reception of the Confucianism in Germany since early Enlightenment
Eun-Jeung Lee, University of Halle-Wittenberg
From Kamikaze Aircraft to the Bullet Train: Social Variables for Technology Transfer in post-World War II Japan
Nishiyama Takashi, Ohio State University/Tōkyō University
The "Japanese Workers' School" as an Example of Workers' Education in Prewar Japan
Oliver Loidl, University of Tübingen
The Aesthetics of the Momoyama Period and Its Appeal to Contemporary German Ceramists
Eva Kaminski, University of Hamburg
Fusing Western Culture and Japanese Religion: The Religious Experience of Musicians in Sōka Gakkai
Levi McLaughlin, Kokugakuin University
The Zone of Peace in the East Asian International System?
Shogo Suzuki, Australian National University
2002
Women Missionaries' Activities and Christian Education for Girls in early Meiji Japan
Mara Patessio, University of Cambridge
How to live a happy life – morality and conduct of life in a Japanese New Religion
Monika Schrimpf, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Dismissal, Reinstatement, Resignation. The Politics of Higher Education Personnel from Prewar to Occupation Period Japan, 1930 to 1952
Hans Martin Krämer, Ruhr-University Bochum/Tōkyō University