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    DIJ Social Science Study Group

    The DIJ Social Science Study Group was a lecture series for early career researchers and Ph.D. candidates in the Social Sciences. Since May 2024 it has been part of the DIJ Study Group.

    2012

    January 11, 2012
    The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010

    Patricia L. Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin


    2011

    December 21, 2011
    Protecting Biodiversity: Global Challenges at the National Level

    Asuka Ashida, Technical University Munich


    October 19, 2011
    Are We in Control of Our Choices? Organ Donation in Japan and Germany

    Stefan Roesner, University of Bonn


    June 8, 2011
    Sexile to the Promised Land: Japanese Gay Migration to North America

    Kunisuke Hirano, University of Tokyo


    2010

    November 24, 2010
    Japan’s Policymaking System under the DPJ: Towards Westminster-Style Government?

    Patrick Köllner, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies


    September 29, 2010
    ‘Modern’ Labels and ‘Postmodern’ Roleplaying? Stereotyping the ‘otaku’ vs. learning from the stranger

    Björn-Ole Kamm, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    September 15, 2010
    Conservative contestations over gender equality and feminism: Discourses and practices

    Maria Sachiko Baier, University of Vienna
    Haruno Katō, Ochanomizu University


    June 30, 2010
    What Makes it OK to Leave: Explaining Divorce in Contemporary Japan

    Allison Alexy, Lafayette College


    March 31, 2010
    “Contradictive Femininity” and Self-harm – A Social and Literary Analysis

    Gitte Marianne Hansen


    February 24, 2010
    Blurring Boundaries: An Analysis of (In)dependent Contractors in Japan

    Shizuka Jäger-Dresen, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    2009

    December 2, 2009
    The Rise of China and Changes in Japan’s Identity Construction

    Kai Schulze, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    September 9, 2009
    Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Tokyo and London in comparative regional perspective

    Adrian Favell, UCLA


    July 22, 2009
    Equality-oriented policies in Japan

    Dan Tidten, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    April 1, 2009
    Playing Education Markets: Small Juku Operators, Ideology, and Resistance

    Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia


    March 11, 2009
    Civil Society Activities and the Social Integration of Immigrants: Juxtaposing Beppu and Halle

    Frauke Kempka, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg


    February 25, 2009
    Making Careers in the Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan’s Transnational Business

    Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ochanomizu University


    January 28, 2009
    Governing Beyond the Center: How Japan’s Local Democracy is Changing

    Carmen Schmidt, Osnabrück University


    2008

    December 10, 2008
    Aiming for Gender Equality: Strategies of Policy Implementation in Japanese Prefectures

    Phoebe Stella Holdgrün, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    October 29, 2008
    After the Trials: War Criminals and Social Integration in 1950s Japan and Germany

    Franziska Seraphim, Boston College


    September 10, 2008
    Better late than never! Making Sense of Japan’s (belated) accession to the International Criminal Court

    Kerstin Lukner, Duisburg-Essen University


    July 23, 2008
    The Role of Social, not Physical, Infrastructure: Civil Society and Post-Disaster Recovery

    Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University


    June 18, 2008
    Reinventing Culinary Heritage in Northern Japan: Slow Food and ‘Traditional Vegetables’

    Stephanie Assmann, Tohoku University, Sendai


    May 28, 2008
    Ikebana, Gender and International Identity

    Nancy Stalker, University of Texas, Austin


    April 23, 2008
    Apron-Advocacy for the Good of the Nation State? Patterns of Political Participation among Nationalist Women in Contemporary Japan

    Kimiko Osawa, University of Wisconsin, Madison


    March 19, 2008
    Intercultural Synergizers or Lost in Translation? American-Japanese Coworker Relations

    Adam Komisarof, International Christian University (ICU)


    February 20, 2008
    Defying predictions: Germany and Japan as regional actors in the post-Cold War era

    Alexandra Wittig, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    January 30, 2008
    Competition and Regulatory Politics in Japan’s Newspaper Market

    Falk Schäfer, Free University of Berlin


    2007

    December 12, 2007
    “I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion” – A study of unwed mothers in Japan -

    Ekaterina Korobtseva, University of Oxford


    October 31, 2007
    The politics of flexible labour markets in Germany and Japan: Evaluating the impact of globalisation on national social policy

    Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    September 19, 2007
    The other demographic time bomb: Japan's last generation of witnesses to war and its fading message

    Andrew Conning, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences


    August 22, 2007
    Military History and Memories in Japan's Post War Armed Forces

    André Hertrich, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg


    July 25, 2007
    The national rate of (re)production: gendered discourse in Japanese policy-making

    Sherry L. Martin, Cornell University


    June 4, 2007
    “Natural Principles of Law?” Reformist Governors Redefine the Local Sphere

    Kate Dunlop, Sophia University


    May 23, 2007
    Multicultural Coexistence: Japanese Roadmaps to a more inclusive and pluralistic society?

    Stephen Robert Nagy, Waseda University


    April 18, 2007
    Freeter and “Generation Praktikum” - Changing attitudes towards working life in Germany and Japan

    Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    March 7, 2007
    Civic Engagement and Postwar Reconstruction in Japan

    Rieko Kage, Kobe University


    February 21, 2007
    Migration and Citizenship in Japan

    Kristin Surak, University of California at Los Angeles / Atsuko Abe, Obirin University


    January 24, 2007
    Backgrounds and Beyond: Identity Management Among Minority Youth

    Christopher Bondy, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University


    2006

    July 19, 2006
    What role for women in shaping Japanese social policies?

    Patricia Boling, Purdue University


    July 5, 2006
    Japan's National Security Debate in the wake of 9/11: Same Old, Same New?

    Susanne Klien, German Institute for Japanese Studies


    June 7, 2006
    Business Associations in Japan – A network perspective on inter-personal exchange

    Andreas Schaumayer, Waseda University


    May 24, 2006
    Coffee, Culture, and the Ethnicity of Migration

    Mariko Iijima, University of Oxford


    March 29, 2006
    Japanese Americans living in Japan: national and ethnic identity formation in the ancestral homeland

    Jane H. Yamashiro, University of Hawai’i


    March 1, 2006
    Getting smart by napping in class – Social and cultural aspects of sleeping in the Japanese classroom

    Brigitte Steger, Vienna University


    2005

    December 14, 2005
    The end of LDP factionalism? Examining the decline since 1992

    Thomas Büttner, University of Heidelberg


    October 19, 2005
    The LDP at 50: Power Resources and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Political Party

    Patrick Köllner, Institute of Asian Affairs/German Overseas Institute, Hamburg


    June 1, 2005
    Building Parents of the Future: Japanese Policies to Boost the Birthrate

    Liv Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison


    April 27, 2005
    Slipping Through the Net: Regulation of Online Election Campaigns

    Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Tsukuba University


    March 29, 2005
    A Glimpse at Language Endangerment in Okinawa

    Masayuki Onishi, University of Sydney


    March 9, 2005
    Gained in Translation: An Interpretation of Japanese Women’s Mid-life Health Strategies

    Jan Zeserson, Cornell University, USA