Events
2022
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
Comparing Labour-Cost Retrenchments in Times of Crisis: How Investors React to the Flexible and Rigid Strategies of Innovative Firms
Cornelia Storz, Goethe University Frankfurt
Silk-Making Knowledge in Amami Ōshima as Critical Archipelagic Heritage
Lisa Onaga, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / DIJ Tokyo
Art in the Countryside
Symposium on Art and Regional Revitalization through Case Studies from Japan
The Taboo of All Taboos: Regretting Motherhood in Japan
Forum Mithani, Cardiff University & Waseda University
Data protection regulation in Japan against the background of international trends
Ana Gascón Marcén, University of Zaragoza
Actors, Networks, and where to find them
Timo Thelen, Kanazawa University
The Future of Liberalism
Japan, France and Germany in global context
Cultural Specificity & Planetary Thinking: Reading Ishimure Michiko's Final Work
Christine L. Marran, University of Minnesota
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
Isabel Fassbender, Doshisha Women’s College, Kyoto
Health Infrastructure and Asia’s Epidemiological Transitions: Historical Perspectives
‘The Visible College of Urbanists’: Imagining Tokyo as a World City
Eric Häusler, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
Digital Currencies in Asia: Lessons for Europe
Masaki Bessho, Bank of Japan
Oriol Caudevilla, Digital Euro Association
Richard Turrin, Consultant
Hiromi Yamaoka, Future Corporation
Moderated by Jonas Gross, Digital Euro Association and Markus Heckel, DIJ
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
Chris McMorran, National University of Singapore
Digital Technologies in the COVID-19 pandemic: A Transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan (TechCo-Project), Ruhr Universität Bochum (cooperation partner Susanne Brucksch)
Joint book exhibition 'The City of Tokyo: Past and Present'
Toxic Food and Slow Violence in Japan’s Post-3/11 Literature
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University
Aidana Bolatbekkyzy, University of Oregon
2021
Globalizing the Social Sciences
German-East Asian Entanglements in the 19th and 20th Century
Japan und Deutschland in der Sars-CoV2-Pandemie (Universität Mainz): Familienleben in der Pandemie / Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy-Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Japan and Germany
Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Thomas Ash: ‘Ushiku’
‘Emerging from the mist’: Dissemination and Transition of Contemporary Shugendō
Josko Kozic, Heidelberg University
Digital Humanities in the Max Weber Foundation
Harald KÜMMERLE (DIJ)
Esther MEIER and Sebastian KINDLER (German Historical Institute Moscow)
Jörg HÖRNSCHEMEYER (German Historical Institute Rome)
Mareike KÖNIG (German Historical Institute Paris)
Anne KLAMMT (DFK Paris)
Jana KECK (German Historical Institute Washington)
moderated by Harald KÜMMERLE (DIJ)
What the D does to History - The Digital Age as a New Temporal Regime?
Andreas FICKERS (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)
moderated by Harald KÜMMERLE (DIJ)
The Future of Society – National Ambitions and Strategies
Yuko HARAYAMA (RIKEN)
Dietmar HARHOFF (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
Ulrike SCHAEDE (University of California San Diego)
moderated by Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ)
From learning good manners to training one’s own apprentices: Female rakugo performers on Tokyo’s stages
Sarah Stark, University of Ghent
Data Infrastructures and Open Science
Miho FUNAMORI (National Institute of Informatics)
Jeroen SONDERVAN (Utrecht University)
Helmuth TRISCHLER (Deutsches Museum and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
moderated by Harald KÜMMERLE (DIJ)
Fascism in Motion: Concepts, Agents and the Global Experiences
Japan’s economic management: decades of self-induced paralysis?
Brieuc Monfort, Sophia University
Joint book exhibition 'World Heritage in Japan'
Governance in the Digital Age
Kaori HAYASHI (University of Tokyo)
Melike ŞAHINOL (OI Istanbul)
Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ)
moderated by Harald KÜMMERLE (DIJ)
Touching the Unreachable: Love of the Object and of the Self through Kawabata
Fusako Innami, Durham University
Studying Japan. Perspectives from 'Inside' and 'Outside'
Knowledge Production in a Data Driven Society
Yoshiaki FUKAMI (Gakushuin University/Keio University)
Itty ABRAHAM (National University of Singapore)
Nadin HEÉ (Osaka University)
moderated by Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ)
Mobile professionals and their families: The making of transnational spaces in Tokyo from a male perspective
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on Surveys in Japan: Methods and Epistemologies
Daiki Hiramori, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle
Saori Kamano, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo
(in cooperation with Laura Dales, University of Western Australia)
Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond
Croft, Quiet, and Kantai Collection: Female Bodies in Japanese Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
Worshipping the Kami at a Distance: World-Wide Shinto and the Global Pandemic
Kaitlyn Ugoretz, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Data and Values
German and Japanese perspectives
Axel v.d. Bussche, Taylor Wessing
Stefan Heumann, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Hitomi Iwase, Nishimura & Asahi
Koichi Sumikura, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Moderated by Franz Waldenberger, DIJ
Mental mapping: Rediscovering and reframing a geographical method for mobility patterns
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
‘Radioactive Aesthetics’: Distance and Avisuality in Post-Fukushima Literature
Chiara Pavone, University of California, Los Angeles
Visions and Expectations of Autonomous Driving by Policy Makers in Japan
Yukari Yamasaki, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region
Knowledge, Policies, and Transfers (1970s – Present)
VSJF Annual Conference 2021: Continuity and Change 10 years after 3.11
Joint book exhibition ’10 Years after 3.11′