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
Nora Kottmann
Daniel Kremers
2014
March 5, 2014A 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
March 13, 2013
Political Shocks and their Effects on Japan-China Economic Relations – The Senkaku-Dispute of 2010 and 2012
Franziska Schultz, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 20, 2013
Social Democracy in Japan – What’s Left?
Felix Spremberg, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 23, 2013
Japan’s search for security: Building ‘strategic partnerships’ in the Asia-Pacific
Thomas S. Wilkins, University of Sydney
2012
December 19, 2012Civil-Military Relations in Japan - From Ignorance to Embrace?
Simon Schwenke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 14, 2012
Fiji Islanders in Japan: Transnational Ties and Ideas of Community in a Micro-Migrant Group
Dominik Schieder, Hitotsubashi University
October 31, 2012
Football fandom in Japan. An ethnographic study
Martin Lieser, University of Bonn
October 10, 2012
Housewives and Salarymen in Post-bubble Japan: A Changing Gender Contract?
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University
June 27, 2012
Better Half: Political Candidacy and the Electoral Role of the Spouse in Japan
Dyron Dabney, Albion College, Michigan
May 30, 2012
Why Japan's "Agile Youth" Will Lead Social Innovation in East Asia: New Possibilities & Outstanding Challenges
Tuukka Toivonen, University of Oxford
March 19, 2012
Mapping Descent, Reconciling with the Past: Half-Japanese Descendants visiting their Fatherland
Eveline Buchheim, National Institute for War-, Holocaust- and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Amsterdam
February 29, 2012
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
February 8, 2012
Urban-Rural Relations in Contemporary Japan
Hiroe Kihara and Chika Sano, Kwansei Gakuin University
January 25, 2012
The Project "Healthy Japan 21" and the Japanese Health Promotion Law
Thomas Hüllein, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 11, 2012
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
December 21, 2011Protecting Biodiversity: Global Challenges at the National Level
Asuka Ashida, Technical University Munich
October 19, 2011
Are We in Control of Our Choices? Organ Donation in Japan and Germany
Stefan Roesner, University of Bonn
June 8, 2011
Sexile to the Promised Land: Japanese Gay Migration to North America
Kunisuke Hirano, University of Tokyo
2010
November 24, 2010Japan’s Policymaking System under the DPJ: Towards Westminster-Style Government?
Patrick Köllner, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
September 29, 2010
‘Modern’ Labels and ‘Postmodern’ Roleplaying? Stereotyping the ‘otaku’ vs. learning from the stranger
Björn-Ole Kamm, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 15, 2010
Conservative contestations over gender equality and feminism: Discourses and practices
Maria Sachiko Baier, University of Vienna
Haruno Katō, Ochanomizu University
June 30, 2010
What Makes it OK to Leave: Explaining Divorce in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy, Lafayette College
March 31, 2010
“Contradictive Femininity” and Self-harm – A Social and Literary Analysis
Gitte Marianne Hansen
February 24, 2010
Blurring Boundaries: An Analysis of (In)dependent Contractors in Japan
Shizuka Jäger-Dresen, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2009
December 2, 2009The Rise of China and Changes in Japan’s Identity Construction
Kai Schulze, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 9, 2009
Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Tokyo and London in comparative regional perspective
Adrian Favell, UCLA
July 22, 2009
Equality-oriented policies in Japan
Dan Tidten, German Institute for Japanese Studies
April 1, 2009
Playing Education Markets: Small Juku Operators, Ideology, and Resistance
Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia
March 11, 2009
Civil Society Activities and the Social Integration of Immigrants: Juxtaposing Beppu and Halle
Frauke Kempka, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
February 25, 2009
Making Careers in the Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan’s Transnational Business
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ochanomizu University
January 28, 2009
Governing Beyond the Center: How Japan’s Local Democracy is Changing
Carmen Schmidt, Osnabrück University
2008
December 10, 2008Aiming for Gender Equality: Strategies of Policy Implementation in Japanese Prefectures
Phoebe Stella Holdgrün, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 29, 2008
After the Trials: War Criminals and Social Integration in 1950s Japan and Germany
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College
September 10, 2008
Better late than never! Making Sense of Japan’s (belated) accession to the International Criminal Court
Kerstin Lukner, Duisburg-Essen University
July 23, 2008
The Role of Social, not Physical, Infrastructure: Civil Society and Post-Disaster Recovery
Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University
June 18, 2008
Reinventing Culinary Heritage in Northern Japan: Slow Food and ‘Traditional Vegetables’
Stephanie Assmann, Tohoku University, Sendai
May 28, 2008
Ikebana, Gender and International Identity
Nancy Stalker, University of Texas, Austin
April 23, 2008
Apron-Advocacy for the Good of the Nation State? Patterns of Political Participation among Nationalist Women in Contemporary Japan
Kimiko Osawa, University of Wisconsin, Madison
March 19, 2008
Intercultural Synergizers or Lost in Translation? American-Japanese Coworker Relations
Adam Komisarof, International Christian University (ICU)
February 20, 2008
Defying predictions: Germany and Japan as regional actors in the post-Cold War era
Alexandra Wittig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 30, 2008
Competition and Regulatory Politics in Japan’s Newspaper Market
Falk Schäfer, Free University of Berlin