Events

2017

September 21, 2017 - September 23, 2017
Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial

July 26, 2017
The Development of (Social) Robots for Health Care Scenarios: Hopes, Concerns and Limits

July 19, 2017
Local Anti-Nuclear Movements in Japan. The Diverging Cases of Maki and Rokkasho

July 6, 2017
Gender Representations in East Asian Television Advertisements: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea

June 26, 2017
Womenomics - Remedy or Illusion?

June 21, 2017
"The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighbourhoods"

June 8, 2017
Revolution and Empire: the Northern Expedition in the Japanese Press, 1926-28

May 25, 2017
Seoul's Namsan under Japanese Influence - Japanese Ritual Life and Assimilation Policy in Korea, 1890-1945

May 12, 2017
Demographischer Wandel als kommunalpolitische Herausforderung – Lösungsstrategien japanischer und deutscher Gemeinden

May 11, 2017
Living Diversity: A Comparative View on Identity, Gender and Sexual Orientation in Contemporary Japan and Germany

April 25, 2017
Culture at work. On the interplay of cultural change and job satisfaction in a Japanese multinational company

March 31, 2017
Humans & Machines in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan

March 23, 2017
Towards an Intellectual History of Japan’s 1980s Bubble Culture and Economy

March 22, 2017
The Status of Japanese Career Women in their Professional and Private Life

March 18, 2017
76th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Toronto, Canada

March 15, 2017
SMLC Seminar Series, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The University of Hong Kong

March 9, 2017
Energiewende エネルギー転換 - The Future of Energy Transition in Germany and Japan

March 1, 2017 - April 7, 2017
The Bakumatsu - the end of the Edo period

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

February 23, 2017
Who pays for whom? Intergenerational Transfers in Japan and Germany

February 20, 2017
Staatsverschuldung – Warum setzt Deutschland auf Konsolidierung?

February 7, 2017
Book Launch: Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan. Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation

January 26, 2017
The Ideologue and Activist Ōkawa Shūmei (1886-1957)

January 13, 2017
International Workshop on Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives. The University of Hong Kong

January 12, 2017
Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, Program Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. The University of Hong Kong

2016

December 13, 2016
International Workshop, Diversity in the Japanese Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities, Waseda University, Tokyo

December 8, 2016
Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War

December 2, 2016
Anthropology Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong

November 30, 2016
Effects of Zero Interest Rate Monetary Policy on Banks and Society

November 29, 2016
Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Alternative Lifestyles in Rural Japan

November 26, 2016
Corporate Governance – Comparing Japan and Germany

November 24, 2016
Diversity – Limits and Opportunities

November 21, 2016
Forschungskolloquium zur Vergleichs- und Verflechtungsgeschichte, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin

November 19, 2016
VSJF Jahrestagung 2016, Fachgruppe Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen

November 15, 2016
The Relevance of Area Studies for the Sciences and Public Policy: Examples from Europe & Asia

November 10, 2016
Victimhood Nationalism in the Transnational Memory Space

November 2, 2016
Conference “Rural Areas Between Decline and Resurgence - Lessons from Japan and Austria

November 2, 2016
Deutsch-Japanisches Symposium zu Klimaschutz und regionaler Entwicklung

October 13, 2016
Changing Gender Orders and Diversity in Comparative Perspective: Growing Flexibility of Work and Life Strategies

September 27, 2016
Department of Asian and American Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton. Binghamton, NY

September 26, 2016
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, State University of New York, Cortland. Cortland, NY

September 25, 2016
2nd EAJS in Japan Conference

September 23, 2016
New York Conference of Asian Studies. Utica College. Utica, NY

September 21, 2016
Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Japanese Labour Activism

September 15, 2016
Disaster, Law and Justice in Japan: In the Tsunami of Debt and Lost Homes

September 8, 2016
Joint East Asian Studies Conference

September 8, 2016
Governance and Financial Aspects of Catastrophic / Systemic Risks

September 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016
Natsume Sōseki Centennial

September 1, 2016
Managing One’s Own Death: The Shūkatsu Industry and the Enterprising Self in an Ageing Society

August 18, 2016
International Workshop Translating the Occupation: Texts from Wartime China