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
Hanno Jentzsch
Nora Kottmann
Daniel Kremers
2020
February 27, 2020The Last Cowboys of Aso? Problems of Grassland Management in Contemporary Commons
Johannes Wilhelm, Kumamoto University (Kumamoto)
February 5, 2020
Assimilation Policies and Ainu Identity
Questioning Japan's Recognition of the Ainu People as Indigenous
Uwe Makino, Chuo University (Tokyo)
January 29, 2020
Improving Japan’s Disability Employment
From Separate to Inclusive Workplaces
Reiko Nishida, PhD, The University of Tokyo
January 15, 2020
The new Japanese Fishery Policies between Revitalization and Capitalization
Susanne Auerbach, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2019
November 14, 2019Political 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
October 29, 2019
Autism in the Workplace - How the Diagnosis of a Developmental Disorder Affects Employment Situations in Japan
Charlotte Schaefer, University of Heidelberg
September 18, 2019
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
July 10, 2019
Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools
Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University
June 14, 2019
Local Responses to the Revision of the Seed Law: The Seed Registration System, GMOs and Rice
Nicole L. Freiner, Bryant University
June 5, 2019
Farmers, Local Agency, and the Development of Peri-Urban Spaces
Aaron Kingsbury, PhD, Maine Maritime Academy
June 3, 2019
Technologies of Presence: Modeling Emotion in Robots with Heart
Daniel White, Freie Universität Berlin & Hirofumi Katsuno, Doshisha University
May 22, 2019
Merits and Challenges of Deliberative Democracy in Japan
Momoyo Hüstebeck, University of Duisburg-Essen
March 13, 2019
Autonomy, Belonging and Long-Distance Relationships in Europe and Japan
Markus Klingel, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
2018
December 12, 2018“Inner city life, inner city pressure”. Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses
Florian Purkarthofer, University of Vienna
October 10, 2018
Sexuality among Marital and Extra-Marital Couple Relationships in Contemporary Japan
Alice Pacher, Meiji University
September 26, 2018
Scientific Advice in Environmental Politics: A Comparative Study of Japanese Policy-Making
Manuela Hartwig, University of Tsukuba
July 25, 2018
Impact of shareholder-value pursuit on labor policies of large companies listed in the Nikkei 400
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, University of Tsukuba
June 27, 2018
The 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