Events
2024
Promise of Freedom: Rethinking Modernity and World War II
Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University (Washington, DC) / Kokugakuin University (Tokyo)
Inhabiting the Interstice: the Regulation of Post-Bubble Housing Insecurity in Tokyo
Lenard Görögh, Freie Universität Berlin
Captured in Reflection – Japanese photography in Manchuria
Jasmin Rückert, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf/DIJ Tokyo
“Give Us Our Blue Skies Back!” The extraordinary anti-pollution movement of ordinary Japanese housewives (1950-1969)
Anna Schrade, independent scholar
Who Drives the Green Shift? Environmental Attitudes in Japan from 1993 to 2020
Carola Hommerich & Joanna Kitsnik (both Sophia University)
The Political Economy of Green Industrial Policies in East Asian Neo-Developmental States
Thomas Kalinowski, Ewha Womans University
Moving to rural Japan – Film Screening and Discussion
Sonja Blaschke, freelance journalist
Tomoo Matsuda, Mitsubishi Research Institute
How to deal with China － A Dialogue between European and Japanese experts on China
Socialising the Soldier: Negotiating History, Tradition, and Identity at Japan’s National Defense Academy
Ben Moeller, University of Oxford/DIJ Tokyo
Japanese Career Women’s Persistent Identity Conflict
Helene Tenzer, LMU Munich School of Management
Christ, Codices, Coding: Applying AI to Jesuit Written Artefacts
Sophie Takahashi, Ruhr University Bochum/DIJ Tokyo
Feminist Foreign Policy in Japan? The Localisation of Pro-Gender Norms in Japanese Foreign Policy
Annika Clasen, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf/DIJ Tokyo
From Tokyo to Marburg: Japanese Female Doctors during the Meiji Era
Wen-Wei Lan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU Munich)
The Japanese like to sue, but they do not have to: An Analysis of Traffic Accident Disputes in Japan
Julien Schickling, Goethe University Frankfurt/DIJ Tokyo
Religion in Japan’s Cultural Heritage Campaign: Latest Trends and Perspectives
Josko Kozic, Heidelberg University/DIJ Tokyo
2023
Conceptualizing communicative spaces in rural areas in Japan and Germany
Japanese Politics – What Keeps Women Out?
Emma Dalton, La Trobe University
Naoko Oki, Sugiyama Jogakuen University
Japan’s Economic Security Policy – A Perspective from Germany
Hanns Günther Hilpert, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
National Identity Discourses in Japan: Challenging Mono-ethnicity in the 2019 Rugby World Cup
Jane Khanizadeh, LMU Munich/DIJ Tokyo
Mediated Social Touch. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Digital Touch to Connect Humans
Building peace with weapons. Germany’s New Security Policy and Japan’s Take
Claus Leggewie, Giessen University
Hideshi Tokuchi, Research Institute for Peace and Security
Spatial Dynamics in Japanese Poetry amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sarah Pützer, University of Oxford/DIJ Tokyo
Discursive and material dimensions of the digital transformation: Perspectives from and on Japan
Japan’s Strategic Partnerships and Great Power Competition in South East Asia
Thomas Wilkins, University of Sydney
Takashi Terada, Doshisha University
The Sublime and Wabi-Sabi
Philippe Bürgin, State University of Fine Arts Stuttgart/DIJ Tokyo
Patronage and “Confucian Diplomacy”: New Perspectives on Early Modern Scholarship in Kaga Domain between 1650 and 1720
Michael Dietrich, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg/DIJ Tokyo
The Realization and Implementation of the “Growth-oriented Carbon Pricing Concept” in Japan
Tokutaro Nakai, Nippon Steel Corporation
with comments by Nobuyuki Kinoshita, Tokyo Financial Exchange
Caught yet blind in Indra’s Net: Reflections on Interconnected Crises in the Late Capitalist Anthropocene
The Diversity of Japanese Churches: Examining Differences and Similarities in their Socio-Spatial Arrangements
Dunja Sharbat, Ruhr-University Bochum
Transnational Research in a Multipolar World
International Conference of the Max Weber Foundation
The (c)harms of Artificial Intelligence: an arts-based research approach to regulating emerging technologies
Freyja van den Boom
Patchwork Ethnography: Interpenetrations of the Personal and the Professional in Research
Chika Watanabe, University of Manchester
Panel Discussion 'Human-Machine Interaction and Responsibility'
Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan
Joint book exhibition 'Mori Ōgai - 160th Anniversary of Birth and Centenary of Death'
Japanese-Thai Defense Relations in the Indo-Pacific Era
Digital Hermeneutics and the Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues in the Digital Humanities: From Trading Zone to Contact Zone
Andreas Fickers, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History / DIJ Tokyo
The Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues for the Digital Humanities
2022
The non-internationalization of East Asian start-ups: the role of resources, strategies and context
Martin Hemmert, Korea University/DIJ Tokyo
Shinzo Abe's Legacy for the Future of Japanese-Southeast Asian Relations
'Caring Machines'
Giulia De Togni, The University of Edinburgh Medical School
Generation Z and sustainable consumption – results from interviews and a comparative online survey in Japan and Germany
Carsten Herbes, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany/DIJ Tokyo
Film Stardom and Representation: Takamine Hideko and Women in Post-War Japan
Till Weingärtner, University College Cork, Ireland
Ageing and long-term care in German and Japanese communities
Inclusion of elderly citizens in German and Japanese Communities: civic engagement and the COVID pandemic
The Intimate in and beyond Pandemic Times: Family, Personal Relationships and Singlehood
Smoke without a Fire? The Search for Populism in Japan
Axel Klein, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Joint book exhibition 'Ryukyu/Okinawa: 50 years since the reversion of Okinawa'
Unearthing Multispecies Intellectual History: Minakata Kumagusu, Queer Nature and the Microbial Paradigm, 1887-1892
Eiko Honda, Aarhus University
Using Delphi Survey to Predict how Technology May Transform Unpaid Domestic Work
Lulu Shi, Oxford University and Nobuko Nagase, Ochanomizu University