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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:
Susanne Brucksch
Sonja Ganseforth
Nora Kottmann
2015
Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and NPOs: The Case of Food Banks in Japan
Nadine Vogel, German Institute for Japanese Studies
A New Dawn for Direct Democracy in Japan? Action and Mobilization Strategies of a Grassroots Movement
Juliane Schulz, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg/DIJ
Deceleration: Phenomena and discourses in present-day Japan from cultural and literary perspectives
Evelyn Schulz, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Is Japan Transforming into a “Leisure Society”? Investigating Changes in Work and Leisure Values
Simon Essler, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
The Art of Living– Disaster Experience and Emotions in Artist`s Biographies in Contemporary Japan
Wiebke Grimmig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
How to Analyze the Distribution of Risks? Social Inequality Theory Re-Visited
Kenji Kawabata, University of Tokyo
2014
North Korea and the Evolution of Japan’s Post-Cold War National Security Policy
Sebastian Maslow, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Nationalism in Okinawa. Case Study of the Futenma base relocation
Ra Mason, University of Central Lancashire
Augmented Reality – Stakeholders of a new technology
Sarah Jacoby, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Challenge of ´Work-Food-Balance´: Working Mothers and their familial Meal-Supply Strategies
Stefanie Reitzig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Japan’s Single Women and the Disembedding Economic System
Kumiko Endo, The New School for Social Research, New York
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
The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement – Mobilization Processes After Fukushima
Anna Wiemann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Japan’s Official Development Assistance: Strategies in Changing National and Global Contexts
Raymond Yamamoto, German Institute for Japanese Studies
A Swallow Does Not Make a Summer, Or Why Japan May Not Quite Be Germany When It Comes to Renewables
New Approaches to Elderly Care and Senior Citizens Engagement
Sebastian Hofstetter, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Inger M. Bachmann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Impact of 3-11 on Japanese Public Opinion toward Energy
Paul Midford, University for Science and Technology, Trondheim
Gender socialization at primary school in contemporary Japan
Aline Henninger, INALCO, Waseda University
2013
The Political Discourse of Regional Disparity in Japan: 1993-2013
Ken Victor Leonard Hijino, Keio University
Ikumen Generation – Support Networks for Japanese Fathers
Tabea Bienek, Free University Berlin
Shadow Education in Japan: the Juku-Phenomenon
Steve R. Entrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Absence of Armed Conflict in the East China Sea
Roland Löchli, German Institute for Japanese Studies
How Wars Create Welfare: The Pacific War and Social Policy-Making in Japan
Anna K. Skarpelis, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine
Political Shocks and their Effects on Japan-China Economic Relations – The Senkaku-Dispute of 2010 and 2012
Franziska Schultz, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Social Democracy in Japan – What’s Left?
Felix Spremberg, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Japan’s search for security: Building ‘strategic partnerships’ in the Asia-Pacific
Thomas S. Wilkins, University of Sydney
2012
Civil-Military Relations in Japan - From Ignorance to Embrace?
Simon Schwenke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Fiji Islanders in Japan: Transnational Ties and Ideas of Community in a Micro-Migrant Group
Dominik Schieder, Hitotsubashi University
Football fandom in Japan. An ethnographic study
Martin Lieser, University of Bonn
Housewives and Salarymen in Post-bubble Japan: A Changing Gender Contract?
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University
Better Half: Political Candidacy and the Electoral Role of the Spouse in Japan
Dyron Dabney, Albion College, Michigan
Why Japan's "Agile Youth" Will Lead Social Innovation in East Asia: New Possibilities & Outstanding Challenges
Tuukka Toivonen, University of Oxford
Mapping Descent, Reconciling with the Past: Half-Japanese Descendants visiting their Fatherland
Eveline Buchheim, National Institute for War-, Holocaust- and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Amsterdam
Continuity and Transformation of Cultural Distinction in Contemporary Japan - The Case of Classical Music Fans and Architects
Yuki Fukiage and Jun Matsumura, Kwansei Gakuin University
Urban-Rural Relations in Contemporary Japan
Hiroe Kihara and Chika Sano, Kwansei Gakuin University
The Project "Healthy Japan 21" and the Japanese Health Promotion Law
Thomas Hüllein, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010
Patricia L. Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin
2011
Protecting Biodiversity: Global Challenges at the National Level
Asuka Ashida, Technical University Munich
Are We in Control of Our Choices? Organ Donation in Japan and Germany
Stefan Roesner, University of Bonn
Sexile to the Promised Land: Japanese Gay Migration to North America
Kunisuke Hirano, University of Tokyo
2010
Japan’s Policymaking System under the DPJ: Towards Westminster-Style Government?
Patrick Köllner, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
‘Modern’ Labels and ‘Postmodern’ Roleplaying? Stereotyping the ‘otaku’ vs. learning from the stranger
Björn-Ole Kamm, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Conservative contestations over gender equality and feminism: Discourses and practices
Maria Sachiko Baier, University of Vienna
Haruno Katō, Ochanomizu University
What Makes it OK to Leave: Explaining Divorce in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy, Lafayette College
“Contradictive Femininity” and Self-harm – A Social and Literary Analysis
Gitte Marianne Hansen
Blurring Boundaries: An Analysis of (In)dependent Contractors in Japan
Shizuka Jäger-Dresen, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2009
The Rise of China and Changes in Japan’s Identity Construction
Kai Schulze, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Tokyo and London in comparative regional perspective
Adrian Favell, UCLA