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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:
2002
A Battle against Tradition? The Establishment of the Air Wing of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Jens Sagen, International Christian University (ICU)
Life History Narratives of First Generation Korean Immigrant Women in Japan
Reviving Oriental Culture and Cultivating Patriotic Gentlemen: Yasuoka Masahiro, Conservative Political Morality and Right-Wing Nationalism in the Taishō Period
Roger Brown, University of Southern California
Feminine Internationalism and the International Body Politic: Consumers as Diplomats in Japan, 1919-1960
Michael A. Schneider, Knox College/Waseda University
2001
Fighting for Kyoto: Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape in the Former Imperial Capital
Christoph Brumann, Cologne University
Abe Isoo's Idealistic Views of Switzerland and Democratic Ideas in Late Meiji- and Taisho-Japan
Harald Meyer, Universität Zürich/Kanazawa University
Report on the Peaceboat North South Korea Voyage – “Setting sail for a new Asia”
Nicola Liscutin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Japanese National Government Park System - More Than Just Another Public Works Project?
Nicole Altmeier, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Miki Kiyoshi and the Crisis of Cultural Consciousness
John Namjun Kim, Cornell University
Competing Conceptions of Modern Selfhood
Melek Ortabasi, University of Washington
The Bunson-Movement in the 1930s and 1940s:How Japanese Bureaucrats Tried to Bring Millions of Agricultural Settlers to Manchuria
Anke Scherer, Ruhr-University Bochum
Television Audiences and National Identity in Postwar Japan
Jayson Chun, University of Oregon
Military and Politics in Modern Japan: The Imperial Army during the Meiji and Taisho Era
Sven Saaler, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's "Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle"
Dr. Gaye Rowley, Kyoto University
Re-locating Civilization. Western Learning, Nationalist Thought and the Discourse on the "Civilized" and "Barbarian" in Late Tokugawa Japan
Susanne Koppensteiner, University of Vienna
2000
How to move the hearts of a 100 million - Yamamoto Kajiro's war and propaganda film
Reglindis Helmer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Cinema, State and "National Culture" in Wartime Japan: Fictional Narratives of Self and Other as Recommended by the Ministry of Education, 1940-44
Harald Salomon, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Some Literary and Political Considerations of Ri Kai Sei
Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne
Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period
Nancy Stalker, Stanford University
Liquid Diplomacy: Germans and the Meiji Beer Industry, 1869-1949
Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village
Sarah Teasley
National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu; Kenkoku kinen no hi) in Modern Japan
Ken Ruoff, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Portland State University
The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Katrin Paul (Photographer), Tama Art University
Living in a box: Danchi dwellers as the pioneers of the modern lifestyle in Japan in the 1950's
Katja Schmidtpott, Ph.D. candidate at Bochum University
Fukuoka Domain and the Road to Restoration
Noell Wilson, Harvard University, PhD Candidate
"Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."
David Averbach, University of Berkeley
Kanakogi Kazunobu and the Natur of Japanese Radicalism
Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Takushoku University
"The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"
David Lurie, Columbia University
Where are the Giants and Monoculi? Knowledge and Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japanese Maps of the World
Robert Eskildsen, Smith College, Assistant Professor
"What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"
Youngmi Lim, City University of New York
Nakano Seigo and his Fascination with European Fascism
Stefano von Loe (Harvard University)
1999
Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō
Ted Mack, Harvard University
Rule by Quotation: The Power of Genroku Culture
Michael Eastwood, Chicago University
The dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature
Laura Moretti, University of Venice
Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature
Alisa Freedman, University of Chicago
Writing minority/Reading minority
Tracey Gannon, Ritsumeikan University
The "Other Hara": Hara Yoshimichi, the Imperial Lawyers Association,and the Politics of Compromise
Darryl Flaherty, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?
Katja Cassing Nakamura, Universität Trier
Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations(1900-1945)
Christan Spang, Freiburg University
The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System
Bettina Gildenhard, Universität Heidelberg
"Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando
Ruth Jäschke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert
Dr. Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek, FU Berlin
The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan
Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
Religious Desputes in Medieval Japan
Claudia Romberg, Leiden University
Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"
Ina Hein, Universität Trier
Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German)
Susanne Phillipps, Freie Universität Berlin
Enomoto Takeaki and Emigrant-led Colonization: Overseas Expansion in Meiji Japan
Henry Todd, Sophia University
1998
Distant Friends: Britain and Japan in the Age of Globalization, 1958-1998
Chris Braddick, Musashi University
Inoue Tetsujirō and the Ideology of Shinkoku (Divine Country) in Early Showa
Johann Nawrocki, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Politico-Business Relations in Taisho- Early Showa Japan: An Explanatory Framework
Peter von Staden, London School of Economics