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DIJ History & Humanities Study Group
The DIJ History & Humanities Study Group was an informal forum for scholars and Ph.D. candidates working in any field of history or the humanities. Since May 2024 it has been part of the DIJ Study Group.
2024
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
Christ, Codices, Coding: Applying AI to Jesuit Written Artefacts
Sophie Takahashi, Ruhr University Bochum/DIJ Tokyo
From Tokyo to Marburg: Japanese Female Doctors during the Meiji Era
Wen-Wei Lan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU Munich)
2023
Spatial Dynamics in Japanese Poetry amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sarah Pützer, University of Oxford/DIJ Tokyo
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 (c)harms of Artificial Intelligence: an arts-based research approach to regulating emerging technologies
Freyja van den Boom
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
2022
Silk-Making Knowledge in Amami Ōshima as Critical Archipelagic Heritage
Lisa Onaga, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / DIJ Tokyo
Data protection regulation in Japan against the background of international trends
Ana Gascón Marcén, University of Zaragoza
‘The Visible College of Urbanists’: Imagining Tokyo as a World City
Eric Häusler, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
2021
‘Emerging from the mist’: Dissemination and Transition of Contemporary Shugendō
Josko Kozic, Heidelberg University
From learning good manners to training one’s own apprentices: Female rakugo performers on Tokyo’s stages
Sarah Stark, University of Ghent
Touching the Unreachable: Love of the Object and of the Self through Kawabata
Fusako Innami, Durham University
Croft, Quiet, and Kantai Collection: Female Bodies in Japanese Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
‘Radioactive Aesthetics’: Distance and Avisuality in Post-Fukushima Literature
Chiara Pavone, University of California, Los Angeles
2020
Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman
Discussing Gender Identity and Society in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Ronald Saladin, Trier University
Cute Masculinity - Investigating the Meaning of Virtual Shōjo and Girl Parody by Young Men in the 2010s
Sharon Kinsella, The University of Manchester
Learning to be funny: Training and social relationships in Rakugo - POSTPONED -
Sarah Stark, Ghent University
Why Is It So Difficult to Buy a Ticket for the Musical? Adaptive Innovation in Japanese Musical Theater from the 1960s to the Present
Rina Tanaka, Meiji University
2019
Image(-Text) correlations in the works of Natsume Sōseki
Kevin Schumacher, University of Munich / DIJ
Environmental Local Scales: Women’s Writing in Northern Tōhoku, Present to Postwar
Eric Siercks, University of California, Los Angeles
Wielding Toxic Discourse: Insanity in the Nuclear Narratives of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
Between Contributor and Competitor: Recent Trends in how the Chinese Government views Japan
Shi Ming, Berlin
Writing (in) Iwate: Exploring a Local Literary Scene and its Fiction
Tamara Kamerer, University of Vienna
Inscribing Edible Otherness: Intersections of Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Zainichi Poetry
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University / Trier University
2018
Depictions of Beethoven in Japanese Anime: Japanese Visual Arts Transforming Western Iconography
Heike Hoffer, The Ohio State University
Japanese studies as an occupation: Career planning for Early Career Researchers in theory and practice (A lecture and practical exercise)
Peter Matanle, University of Sheffield
[CANCELLED] Representations of Gender and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Korean-Japanese Narratives
Maren Haufs-Brusberg, Trier University
Fūdo 風土: From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept
David W. Johnson, Boston College
History-writing and the Public Sphere in Japan: 1945-1955
Curtis Anderson Gayle, Waseda University
Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse
Jana Katzenberg, University of Cologne
Informal Figures of Japanese Imperialism: the political activism of the Gen'yōsha
Grégoire Sastre, Waseda University
German Prisoners of War in Japan 1914-1920: towards a new narrative
Frank Käser, JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo
Japan's Industrial Policy toward Technology Transfers and Business History: Signalling and Administrative Guidance, 1950-1975
Jonathan Krautter, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2017
Prisons and Forced Labour on Hokkaido
Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
The transfer of knowledge between Germany and Japan in the late Meiji and early Taishō eras: A case study of Georg Würfel (1880-1936)
Reik Jagno, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Prolonging Youthfulness: An Investigation of the bimajo Phenomenon in Japan
Satoshi Ota, Tama University
Transcultural Potentials of Japanese Fan Work: First Field Results
Katharina Hülsmann, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Gender Representations in East Asian Television Advertisements: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
Michael Prieler, Hallym University
Womenomics - Remedy or Illusion?
Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School
Revolution and Empire: the Northern Expedition in the Japanese Press, 1926-28
Andrea Revelant, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/Keio University SGUP
Seoul's Namsan under Japanese Influence - Japanese Ritual Life and Assimilation Policy in Korea, 1890-1945
Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
Towards an Intellectual History of Japan’s 1980s Bubble Culture and Economy
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Freie Universität Berlin
The Ideologue and Activist Ōkawa Shūmei (1886-1957)
Florian Neumann, Kagawa University, Takamatsu
2016
Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War
Noriko Kawamura, Washington State University
Negotiating “Superstition” and “Religion”: The Case of the “Immoral Heresies Tenrikyō and Renmonkyō” in Meiji Japan
Franziska Steffen, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Collective Subjectivity and Apology Under the Gaze of the ‘International Community’: A Lacanian Analysis of the Apology Issue in Japan-China Relations
Hai Guo, University of Leeds
What is human dignity? And could it provide a common ethical foundation between cultures? The examples of Germany and Japan
Ralf Stoecker (Bielefeld University) together with Miki Aoyama (DIJ)