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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.

    2009

    March 10, 2009
    Kurokawa Noh: Self-perception, Self-presentation and the Outside Gaze

    Eike Grossmann, Goethe University Frankfurt


    2008

    December 17, 2008
    Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago) and Japanese Art Photography in the 1990’s

    Lena Fritsch, Bonn University


    October 22, 2008
    Liberated Women or Keepers of “Japanese Tradition”? Actresses of Kyōgen and their Strategies of Public Profiling

    Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University


    October 15, 2008
    The Moral Subject Under Japanese Colonialism

    John Treat, Yale University


    June 25, 2008
    Practices of Transferring German Medical Culture to Meiji Japan

    Hsiu-Jane Chen, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Center for Human and Health Sciences of Charité (Berlin)


    May 14, 2008
    National Heroes and the Struggle for Masculinization in Meiji Japan

    Jason G. Karlin, University of Tokyo


    March 6, 2008
    Manzai – Analysing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy

    Till Weingärtner, University of Kansai


    February 6, 2008
    Japan’s Conservatives and the Quest for Constitutional Reform

    Chris Winkler, University of Munich


    2007

    October 24, 2007
    Shono Yoriko’s Pure Literature Debate – or, hyper-personal imagination as a tool against neo-liberalism

    Robin Tierney, University of Iowa


    September 26, 2007
    Homogeneous Social Evaluations? Japanese University Students' Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties

    Robert McKenzie, University of Glasgow


    March 6, 2007
    Contemporary Human Rights Education in Japan: What Do Textbooks Teach?

    Bettina C. Rabe, doctoral student, Heidelberg University


    January 26, 2007
    Changing Traditions: The Role of Japanese Village Women in the Modernization of Japan

    Christina Ghanbarpour, University of California, Irvine


    January 17, 2007
    Writing Technology as Alternative Modernity: Transparency, Transcriptive Realism and Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows

    Seth Jacobowitz, Harvard University


    2006

    November 22, 2006
    Communication with Foreigners in Japan: A Sociolinguistic Discussion

    Teja Ostheider, Kinki University


    June 14, 2006
    Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography

    Bettina Lockemann, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    February 15, 2006
    Between Identity Formation and Alienation – Landscape in Japanese Literature, 1894-1905

    Thomas Hackner, Trier University


    2005

    November 30, 2005
    A Vision of Horror or a Source of Salvation? Encounters with China in Japanese Film and TV Drama

    Griseldis Kirsch, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    October 18, 2005
    Family, Home, and Memories: On Shamanistic (De-) Constructions of Identity in Yu Miri's Hachigatsu no hate

    Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    October 4, 2005
    The Origins of Media and Communications Research in Pre-war Japan: Constructivist and Critical Perspectives

    Fabian Schaefer, University of Leipzig, University of Tokyo


    August 3, 2005
    Who Speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku Leadership in 19th-Century Japan

    Mark McNally, University of Hawaii at Manoa


    July 13, 2005
    The Concept of Value-Creating Education in the Pedagogy of Sōka Gakkai

    Sybille Höhe, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    May 11, 2005
    “Bio-sophers”? German Physicians as “Ethnographers” of Meiji Japan

    Hoi-eun Kim, Harvard University


    March 30, 2005
    Men in Metal — A Topography of Japanese Public Statuary in Bronze

    Sven Saaler, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    March 2, 2005
    The Takarasienne and Moga: Modernity in the Prewar Girls' Culture

    Makiko Yamanashi, University of Edinburgh


    February 2, 2005
    Multilingualism in Tokyo – Reading the Signs

    Peter Backhaus, University of Duisburg-Essen


    January 5, 2005
    In Search of the Perfect Body: Intersexuality as Trope for Reading the Female Subject

    Leslie Winston, Dickinson College


    2004

    October 20, 2004
    Women on the Noh-Stage: Pioneers after a Century of Performing

    Barbara Geilhorn, Trier University


    October 6, 2004
    Writing Women into Religious Histories: Re-reading Representations of Chūjōhime in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

    Monika Dix, University of British Columbia / Kokugakuin University


    August 25, 2004
    Dream of dreams, becoming Disney of Asia

    Hu Tze Yue, Waseda University/ Nanyang Technological University, College of Engineering


    July 7, 2004
    A Woman's Critique of Male Academics in Early Nineteenth Century Japan

    Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Tübingen University/Wesleyan University CT


    June 23, 2004
    Discourse Networks of the Post in Meiji Japan

    Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University


    May 19, 2004
    Japan's Relations with the Arab Countries

    Ahmed Naili, Graduate School of Commerce, Meiji University


    April 19, 2004
    Early Postwar Japanese Reconciliation with China: Was the Glass Half Full?

    Daqing Yang, George Washington University


    April 7, 2004
    Answers to Big Questions: Contemporary Buddhist Guides to Life Management

    Katja Triplett, Marburg University


    March 22, 2004
    Meiji-period kokugaku: activities of Hirata-school scholars, Iida Takesato and the Oyashima-gakkai

    Michael Wachutka, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen


    February 18, 2004
    'Positive Policy,' 'Negative Policy,' and the Economics of Taishō Democracy

    Mark Metzler, Assistant Professor of History, Oakland University


    January 21, 2004
    The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and Japanese Perceptions of the People's Republic of China

    Robert Hoppens, University of Washington


    2003

    December 10, 2003
    The Making of a Heroic War Myth in the Russo-Japanese War

    Shimazu Naoko, Birkbeck University of London


    November 12, 2003
    China's Role in the Process of Japan's Cultural Self-Identification, 1895-1904

    Matthias Zachmann, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg/DIJ


    October 8, 2003
    Shugendo and the Separation of Buddha and kami Worship (shinbutsu bunri): the case of Hagurosan 1870-1875

    Gaynor Sekimori, The University of Tokyo


    July 3, 2003
    Digesting Postwar Japan Media

    Barak Kushner, Davidson College


    June 6, 2003
    The History of the Reception of the Confucianism in Germany since early Enlightenment

    Eun-Jeung Lee, University of Halle-Wittenberg


    April 23, 2003
    From Kamikaze Aircraft to the Bullet Train: Social Variables for Technology Transfer in post-World War II Japan

    Nishiyama Takashi, Ohio State University/Tōkyō University


    March 19, 2003
    The "Japanese Workers' School" as an Example of Workers' Education in Prewar Japan

    Oliver Loidl, University of Tübingen


    March 5, 2003
    The Aesthetics of the Momoyama Period and Its Appeal to Contemporary German Ceramists

    Eva Kaminski, University of Hamburg


    February 12, 2003
    Fusing Western Culture and Japanese Religion: The Religious Experience of Musicians in Sōka Gakkai

    Levi McLaughlin, Kokugakuin University


    January 15, 2003
    The Zone of Peace in the East Asian International System?

    Shogo Suzuki, Australian National University


    2002

    December 4, 2002
    Women Missionaries' Activities and Christian Education for Girls in early Meiji Japan

    Mara Patessio, University of Cambridge


    November 13, 2002
    How to live a happy life – morality and conduct of life in a Japanese New Religion

    Monika Schrimpf, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    September 19, 2002
    Dismissal, Reinstatement, Resignation. The Politics of Higher Education Personnel from Prewar to Occupation Period Japan, 1930 to 1952

    Hans Martin Krämer, Ruhr-University Bochum/Tōkyō University