Events
2017
October 31, 2017 - November 2, 2017Rural Japan Revisited: Autonomy and Heteronomy in the Peripheries
October 6, 2017 - October 7, 2017
Do labour market inequalities erode support for democracy? Experiences and perspectives from France, Germany and Japan
September 28, 2017
Changing dynamics of multilevel democracy in Japan
Ken Victor Leonard Hijino, Kyoto University
Yamada Kyohei, Rikkyo University
September 21, 2017 - September 23, 2017
Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial
August 17, 2017
Transcultural Potentials of Japanese Fan Work: First Field Results
Katharina Hülsmann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 28, 2017
Migration and East Asian Societies: Comparative Perspectives
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
Tina Hügel, German Institute for Japanese Studies
July 6, 2017
Gender Representations in East Asian Television Advertisements: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
Michael Prieler, Hallym University
June 26, 2017
Womenomics - Remedy or Illusion?
Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School
June 21, 2017
"The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighbourhoods"
Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
June 9, 2017
EJARN (European Japan Advanced Research Network) Conference 2017
Franz Waldenberger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
June 8, 2017
Revolution and Empire: the Northern Expedition in the Japanese Press, 1926-28
Andrea Revelant, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/Keio University SGUP
May 25, 2017
Seoul's Namsan under Japanese Influence - Japanese Ritual Life and Assimilation Policy in Korea, 1890-1945
Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
May 16, 2017
ICS Lecture
Franz Waldenberger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
İpek İpekçioğlu, DJ, producer and curator, Berlin & Istanbul
Tomoya Hosoda, Councilor of Iruma City, Saitama
Professor Akiko Shimizu, PhD, The University of Tokyo
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
March 31, 2017
Humans & Machines in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan
March 27, 2017
DJW Japan Seminar
Franz Waldenberger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 23, 2017
Towards an Intellectual History of Japan’s 1980s Bubble Culture and Economy
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Freie Universität Berlin
March 22, 2017
The Status of Japanese Career Women in their Professional and Private Life
Markus Pudelko, The University of Tübingen
Noelle Takahashi, Women’s Leadership Advocate
March 18, 2017
76th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Toronto, Canada
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 16, 2017
Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Panel "Envisioning a Future for the Countryside: Chinese and Japanese Perspectives" chaired by Elena Meyer-Clement, Toronto, Canada
Hanno Jentzsch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 15, 2017
SMLC Seminar Series, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The University of Hong Kong
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 9, 2017
Energiewende エネルギー転換 - The Future of Energy Transition in Germany and Japan
Dimitri Pescia, Agora Energiewende
Mika Ōbayashi, Renewable Energy Institute
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
Felix Lill, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 23, 2017
Who pays for whom? Intergenerational Transfers in Japan and Germany
Naohiro Ogawa, The University of Tokyo
Gerhard Naegele, Technical University of Dortmund
February 20, 2017
Staatsverschuldung – Warum setzt Deutschland auf Konsolidierung?
Bernhardt Schulte-Drüggelte, MdB
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)
Florian Neumann, Kagawa University, Takamatsu
January 13, 2017
International Workshop on Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives. The University of Hong Kong
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 12, 2017
Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, Program Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. The University of Hong Kong
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2016
December 13, 2016International Workshop, Diversity in the Japanese Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities, Waseda University, Tokyo
Vincent Lesch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
December 8, 2016
Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War
Noriko Kawamura, Washington State University
December 2, 2016
Anthropology Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
Ludgera Lewerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 19, 2016
VSJF Jahrestagung 2016, Fachgruppe Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Jana Katzenberg, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
Jie-Hyun Lim, Sogang University Seoul
Andrew Horvat, Josai International University
November 2, 2016
Conference “Rural Areas Between Decline and Resurgence - Lessons from Japan and Austria
Hanno Jentzsch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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
Ilse Lenz, Professor emeritus at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Glenda Roberts, Professor at Waseda University
September 27, 2016
Department of Asian and American Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton. Binghamton, NY
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 26, 2016
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, State University of New York, Cortland. Cortland, NY
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies