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:
Susanne Brucksch
Sonja Ganseforth
Steffen Heinrich
Hanno Jentzsch
Daniel Kremers
2018
June 27, 2018The Value and Meaning of a “Useless” Robot: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Communication Robots
Keiko Nishimura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
June 13, 2018
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Return Migrants in Japan
Chaline Timmerarens, Freie Universität Berlin
January 18, 2018
Politicians and Bureaucrats in Contemporary Japan: New Twists on a Tumultuous Relationship
Arnaud Grivaud, French National Institute of Asian Language and Civilisation (INALCO)
2017
November 9, 2017Outgrowing 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
October 25, 2017
School’s out Forever – Examining Career Guidance and Transition Mechanisms at Japanese Senior High Schools
Vincent Lesch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 20, 2017
Evolution and Transformations of Japan’s Multilateral Diplomacy
Sarah Tanke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 19, 2017
Local Anti-Nuclear Movements in Japan. The Diverging Cases of Maki and Rokkasho
Tina Hügel, German Institute for Japanese Studies
June 21, 2017
"The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighbourhoods"
Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
April 25, 2017
Culture at work. On the interplay of cultural change and job satisfaction in a Japanese multinational company
Matthias Huber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 28, 2017
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
November 29, 2016Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Alternative Lifestyles in Rural Japan
Ludgera Lewerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 21, 2016
Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Japanese Labour Activism
Jan Niggemeier, Freie Universität Berlin
September 15, 2016
Disaster, Law and Justice in Japan: In the Tsunami of Debt and Lost Homes
Julius Weitzdörfer, University of Cambridge
September 1, 2016
Managing One’s Own Death: The Shūkatsu Industry and the Enterprising Self in an Ageing Society
Dorothea Mladenova, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 13, 2016
Logics of Liberalization: Tracing Japan's Trajectory of Socio-Economic Institutional Change
Stefan Heeb, University of Geneva
July 6, 2016
Journalism and Disaster from a Cultural Perspective. A comparative reflection of German and Japanese media reporting on 'Fukushima'
Florian Meißner, Dortmund Technical University
June 29, 2016
Informative Activism and the Blogosphere in Japan after 311
Natalia Novikova, University of Tsukuba
May 19, 2016
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
March 16, 2016
Democracy, Diversity, and Disaster Resilience: Towards a Theory of 3-Dimensional (3D) Risk Governance
Jackie F. Steele, University of Tokyo
February 3, 2016
Language and Institutions: Exploring the Origins of Seniority-Based Hierarchical Relations in Japanese School Club Activities
Zi Wang, University of Duisburg-Essen
January 20, 2016
“Coeds Ruining the Nation”: The Contested Postwar Politics of the Female Student
Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Meiji University
2015
December 9, 2015Framing and Networks in Japanese Nuclear Power Reporting
Tobias Weiss, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 30, 2015
Why do the Young Stay? ‘Home-orientation‘ and Social Capital in Okinawa
Adam Jambor, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 24, 2015
Harmony with Nature? Satoyama Satoumi and Its Impact on Local Communities in Japan
Timo Thelen, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
September 10, 2015
Nuclear Power in Japan after 3/11: An Inconspicuous Transformation
Florentine Koppenborg, Freie Universität Berlin
July 22, 2015
Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and NPOs: The Case of Food Banks in Japan
Nadine Vogel, German Institute for Japanese Studies
June 24, 2015
A New Dawn for Direct Democracy in Japan? Action and Mobilization Strategies of a Grassroots Movement
May 26, 2015
Deceleration: Phenomena and discourses in present-day Japan from cultural and literary perspectives
Evelyn Schulz, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
May 20, 2015
Is Japan Transforming into a “Leisure Society”? Investigating Changes in Work and Leisure Values
Simon Essler, German Institute for Japanese Studies
April 15, 2015
From Solidaristic to Neoliberal Values? Responses to Income Inequality in Japan, Germany, Sweden, and the US
Nate Breznau, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 18, 2015
The Art of Living– Disaster Experience and Emotions in Artist`s Biographies in Contemporary Japan
Wiebke Grimmig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 4, 2015
How to Analyze the Distribution of Risks? Social Inequality Theory Re-Visited
Kenji Kawabata, University of Tokyo
2014
December 3, 2014North Korea and the Evolution of Japan’s Post-Cold War National Security Policy
Sebastian Maslow, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 5, 2014
Nationalism in Okinawa. Case Study of the Futenma base relocation
Ra Mason, University of Central Lancashire
September 24, 2014
Augmented Reality – Stakeholders of a new technology
Sarah Jacoby, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 23, 2014
The Challenge of ´Work-Food-Balance´: Working Mothers and their familial Meal-Supply Strategies
Stefanie Reitzig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 2, 2014
Japan’s Single Women and the Disembedding Economic System
Kumiko Endo, The New School for Social Research, New York
June 4, 2014
Meanings of graduate education for women in Japan: A study of University of Tokyo Alumnae in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Yuki Yamamoto, University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 14, 2014
The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement – Mobilization Processes After Fukushima
Anna Wiemann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
April 2, 2014
Japan’s Official Development Assistance: Strategies in Changing National and Global Contexts
Raymond Yamamoto, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 5, 2014
A Swallow Does Not Make a Summer, Or Why Japan May Not Quite Be Germany When It Comes to Renewables
February 19, 2014
New Approaches to Elderly Care and Senior Citizens Engagement
Sebastian Hofstetter, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Inger M. Bachmann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 13, 2014
The Impact of 3-11 on Japanese Public Opinion toward Energy
Paul Midford, University for Science and Technology, Trondheim
January 29, 2014
Gender socialization at primary school in contemporary Japan
Aline Henninger, INALCO, Waseda University
2013
November 27, 2013The Political Discourse of Regional Disparity in Japan: 1993-2013
Ken Victor Leonard Hijino, Keio University
October 30, 2013
Ikumen Generation – Support Networks for Japanese Fathers
Tabea Bienek, Free University Berlin
September 25, 2013
Shadow Education in Japan: the Juku-Phenomenon
Steve R. Entrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 18, 2013
The Absence of Armed Conflict in the East China Sea
Roland Löchli, German Institute for Japanese Studies
June 26, 2013
How Wars Create Welfare: The Pacific War and Social Policy-Making in Japan
Anna K. Skarpelis, German Institute for Japanese Studies
June 12, 2013
Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine