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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.

    2002

    July 9, 2002
    A Battle against Tradition? The Establishment of the Air Wing of the Imperial Japanese Navy

    Jens Sagen, International Christian University (ICU)


    March 27, 2002
    Life History Narratives of First Generation Korean Immigrant Women in Japan

    February 13, 2002
    Reviving Oriental Culture and Cultivating Patriotic Gentlemen: Yasuoka Masahiro, Conservative Political Morality and Right-Wing Nationalism in the Taishō Period

    Roger Brown, University of Southern California


    January 16, 2002
    Feminine Internationalism and the International Body Politic: Consumers as Diplomats in Japan, 1919-1960

    Michael A. Schneider, Knox College/Waseda University


    2001

    December 4, 2001
    Fighting for Kyoto: Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape in the Former Imperial Capital

    Christoph Brumann, Cologne University


    November 7, 2001
    Abe Isoo's Idealistic Views of Switzerland and Democratic Ideas in Late Meiji- and Taisho-Japan

    Harald Meyer, Universität Zürich/Kanazawa University


    September 26, 2001
    Report on the Peaceboat North South Korea Voyage – “Setting sail for a new Asia”

    Nicola Liscutin, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    July 11, 2001
    The Japanese National Government Park System - More Than Just Another Public Works Project?

    Nicole Altmeier, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    June 20, 2001
    Miki Kiyoshi and the Crisis of Cultural Consciousness

    John Namjun Kim, Cornell University


    May 23, 2001
    Competing Conceptions of Modern Selfhood

    Melek Ortabasi, University of Washington


    May 16, 2001
    The Bunson-Movement in the 1930s and 1940s:How Japanese Bureaucrats Tried to Bring Millions of Agricultural Settlers to Manchuria

    Anke Scherer, Ruhr-University Bochum


    April 25, 2001
    Television Audiences and National Identity in Postwar Japan

    Jayson Chun, University of Oregon


    March 14, 2001
    Military and Politics in Modern Japan: The Imperial Army during the Meiji and Taisho Era

    Sven Saaler, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    February 14, 2001
    Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's "Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle"

    Dr. Gaye Rowley, Kyoto University


    January 24, 2001
    Re-locating Civilization. Western Learning, Nationalist Thought and the Discourse on the "Civilized" and "Barbarian" in Late Tokugawa Japan

    Susanne Koppensteiner, University of Vienna


    2000

    December 13, 2000
    How to move the hearts of a 100 million - Yamamoto Kajiro's war and propaganda film

    Reglindis Helmer, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    November 15, 2000
    Cinema, State and "National Culture" in Wartime Japan: Fictional Narratives of Self and Other as Recommended by the Ministry of Education, 1940-44

    Harald Salomon, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    October 11, 2000
    Some Literary and Political Considerations of Ri Kai Sei

    Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne


    July 12, 2000
    Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period

    Nancy Stalker, Stanford University


    June 29, 2000
    Liquid Diplomacy: Germans and the Meiji Beer Industry, 1869-1949

    Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    June 21, 2000
    Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village

    Sarah Teasley


    June 7, 2000
    National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu; Kenkoku kinen no hi) in Modern Japan

    Ken Ruoff, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Portland State University


    May 17, 2000
    The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

    Katrin Paul (Photographer), Tama Art University


    May 10, 2000
    Living in a box: Danchi dwellers as the pioneers of the modern lifestyle in Japan in the 1950's

    Katja Schmidtpott, Ph.D. candidate at Bochum University


    April 19, 2000
    Fukuoka Domain and the Road to Restoration

    Noell Wilson, Harvard University, PhD Candidate


    March 2, 2000
    "Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."

    David Averbach, University of Berkeley


    March 1, 2000
    Kanakogi Kazunobu and the Natur of Japanese Radicalism

    Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Takushoku University


    February 10, 2000
    "The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"

    David Lurie, Columbia University


    February 2, 2000
    Where are the Giants and Monoculi? Knowledge and Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japanese Maps of the World

    Robert Eskildsen, Smith College, Assistant Professor


    January 20, 2000
    "What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"

    Youngmi Lim, City University of New York


    January 12, 2000
    Nakano Seigo and his Fascination with European Fascism

    Stefano von Loe (Harvard University)


    1999

    December 9, 1999
    Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō

    Ted Mack, Harvard University


    December 1, 1999
    Rule by Quotation: The Power of Genroku Culture

    Michael Eastwood, Chicago University


    November 10, 1999
    The dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature

    Laura Moretti, University of Venice


    October 21, 1999
    Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature

    Alisa Freedman, University of Chicago


    July 8, 1999
    Writing minority/Reading minority

    Tracey Gannon, Ritsumeikan University


    July 7, 1999
    The "Other Hara": Hara Yoshimichi, the Imperial Lawyers Association,and the Politics of Compromise

    Darryl Flaherty, PhD Candidate, Columbia University


    June 10, 1999
    Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?

    Katja Cassing Nakamura, Universität Trier


    June 2, 1999
    Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations(1900-1945)

    Christan Spang, Freiburg University


    May 13, 1999
    The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System

    Bettina Gildenhard, Universität Heidelberg


    April 22, 1999
    "Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando

    Ruth Jäschke, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    March 18, 1999
    Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert

    Dr. Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek, FU Berlin


    March 3, 1999
    The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan

    Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University


    February 23, 1999
    Religious Desputes in Medieval Japan

    Claudia Romberg, Leiden University


    February 10, 1999
    Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"

    Ina Hein, Universität Trier


    January 21, 1999
    Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German)

    Susanne Phillipps, Freie Universität Berlin


    January 13, 1999
    Enomoto Takeaki and Emigrant-led Colonization: Overseas Expansion in Meiji Japan

    Henry Todd, Sophia University


    1998

    November 4, 1998
    Distant Friends: Britain and Japan in the Age of Globalization, 1958-1998

    Chris Braddick, Musashi University


    October 28, 1998
    Inoue Tetsujirō and the Ideology of Shinkoku (Divine Country) in Early Showa

    Johann Nawrocki, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    September 2, 1998
    Politico-Business Relations in Taisho- Early Showa Japan: An Explanatory Framework

    Peter von Staden, London School of Economics