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DIJ Social Science Study Group
The DIJ Social Science Study Group is a forum for young scholars and Ph.D. candidates in the Social Sciences. Presentations on a scholar’s research project are about 45 minutes, followed by about 45 minutes of Q&A. The DIJ Social Science Study Group usually meets once a month, on a Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
If you are interested in presenting, please contact the Study Group organizers:
2022
'Caring Machines'
Giulia De Togni, The University of Edinburgh Medical School
Smoke without a Fire? The Search for Populism in Japan
Axel Klein, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Actors, Networks, and where to find them
Timo Thelen, Kanazawa University
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
Isabel Fassbender, Doshisha Women’s College, Kyoto
2021
Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Thomas Ash: ‘Ushiku’
Mobile professionals and their families: The making of transnational spaces in Tokyo from a male perspective
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on Surveys in Japan: Methods and Epistemologies
Daiki Hiramori, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle
Saori Kamano, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo
(in cooperation with Laura Dales, University of Western Australia)
Worshipping the Kami at a Distance: World-Wide Shinto and the Global Pandemic
Kaitlyn Ugoretz, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mental mapping: Rediscovering and reframing a geographical method for mobility patterns
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Visions and Expectations of Autonomous Driving by Policy Makers in Japan
Yukari Yamasaki, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2020
Agenda-Cutting in Media News Coverage of Covid-19:
A Case Study from Japan
Yosuke Buchmeier, LMU Munich/DIJ Tokyo
Future Visions of a (Digital) Public Sphere:
Findings from Japan
Michel Hohendanner, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Chiara Ullstein, Technical University of Munich
Towards a Transnational Sexual Field: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan
An Huy Tran, University of Duisburg-Essen/Waseda University
The Last Cowboys of Aso? Problems of Grassland Management in Contemporary Commons - POSTPONED -
Johannes Wilhelm, Kumamoto University (Kumamoto)
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, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2019
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
Autism in the Workplace - How the Diagnosis of a Developmental Disorder Affects Employment Situations in Japan
Charlotte Schaefer, University of Heidelberg
Shrinking but Happy? Investigating the Interplay of Social and Individual-Level Predictors of Well-Being in Rural Japanese Communities
Dionyssios Askitis, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools
Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University
Local Responses to the Revision of the Seed Law: The Seed Registration System, GMOs and Rice
Nicole L. Freiner, Bryant University
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
Merits and Challenges of Deliberative Democracy in Japan
Momoyo Hüstebeck, University of Duisburg-Essen
Autonomy, Belonging and Long-Distance Relationships in Europe and Japan
Markus Klingel, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
2018
“Inner city life, inner city pressure”. Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses
Florian Purkarthofer, University of Vienna
Sexuality among Marital and Extra-Marital Couple Relationships in Contemporary Japan
Alice Pacher, Meiji University
Scientific Advice in Environmental Politics: A Comparative Study of Japanese Policy-Making
Manuela Hartwig, University of Tsukuba
Impact of shareholder-value pursuit on labor policies of large companies listed in the Nikkei 400
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, University of Tsukuba
The Value and Meaning of a “Useless” Robot: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Communication Robots
Keiko Nishimura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Return Migrants in Japan
Chaline Timmerarens, Freie Universität Berlin
Politicians and Bureaucrats in Contemporary Japan: New Twists on a Tumultuous Relationship
Arnaud Grivaud, French National Institute of Asian Language and Civilisation (INALCO)
2017
Outgrowing the “triple helix” – The effects of international cooperation on the emergence of Japanese regional high-tech innovation clusters
Benjamin Rabe, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
School’s out Forever – Examining Career Guidance and Transition Mechanisms at Japanese Senior High Schools
Vincent Lesch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Evolution and Transformations of Japan’s Multilateral Diplomacy
Sarah Tanke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Local Anti-Nuclear Movements in Japan. The Diverging Cases of Maki and Rokkasho
Tina Hügel, German Institute for Japanese Studies
"The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighbourhoods"
Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
Culture at work. On the interplay of cultural change and job satisfaction in a Japanese multinational company
Matthias Huber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Are the elderly a cost factor for society or its safety net? A comparison of family regimes and National Transfer Accounts data in Germany and Japan
Felix Lill, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2016
Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Alternative Lifestyles in Rural Japan
Ludgera Lewerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Japanese Labour Activism
Jan Niggemeier, Freie Universität Berlin
Disaster, Law and Justice in Japan: In the Tsunami of Debt and Lost Homes
Julius Weitzdörfer, University of Cambridge
Managing One’s Own Death: The Shūkatsu Industry and the Enterprising Self in an Ageing Society
Dorothea Mladenova, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Logics of Liberalization: Tracing Japan's Trajectory of Socio-Economic Institutional Change
Stefan Heeb, University of Geneva
Journalism and Disaster from a Cultural Perspective. A comparative reflection of German and Japanese media reporting on 'Fukushima'
Florian Meißner, Dortmund Technical University
Informative Activism and the Blogosphere in Japan after 311
Natalia Novikova, University of Tsukuba
Reproductive Decision-Making in Japan’s Low Birth Rate Society: Education about Family Planning and Fertility as a Remedy?
Isabel Fassbender, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Democracy, Diversity, and Disaster Resilience: Towards a Theory of 3-Dimensional (3D) Risk Governance
Jackie F. Steele, University of Tokyo
Language and Institutions: Exploring the Origins of Seniority-Based Hierarchical Relations in Japanese School Club Activities
Zi Wang, University of Duisburg-Essen