1090 Wien
Florian Purkarthofer
Non-academic staff, External lecturer
- Corporate Communications
- Department of East Asian Studies
Employment
Non-academic staff
Corporate Communications
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Oct 2025 → present
External lecturer
Department of East Asian Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Sept 2016 → present
Predoc
Department of East Asian Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Dec 2019 → 31 May 2025
Independent contractor/trainee
Dean's office of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Sept 2019 → 30 Nov 2019
Independent contractor/trainee
Department of East Asian Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Mar 2011 → 14 Dec 2018
Student assistant
Department of East Asian Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Sept 2010 → 29 Feb 2012
Research Scholarship
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)Tokyo, Japan
1 Jul 2018 → 28 Feb 2019
Guest Researcher
Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1 Apr 2014 → 31 Mar 2016
Publications
Heisei City: Ein Blick auf 30 Jahre urbaner Veränderungen
Purkarthofer, F., 19 Aug 2021, In: Minikomi: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies. 88, p. 58 67 p.Chasing the Locals in Urban Japan: An Anthropocentric Approach to Conceptualizing Multilayered Locals in Contemporary Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F., 2021, In: Asien: the German journal on contemporary Asia. 158/159, p. 134 160 p.„Reden ist Silber, Zuhören ist Gold“: Durchführung und Analyse qualitativer Interviews in Japan
Purkarthofer, F. & Polak-Rottmann, S., 1 Oct 2020, Wiener Selektion japanologischer Methoden: Jahrgang 2020. Wien, Vol. 48. p. 127-156 29 p. (Beiträge zur Japanologie. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Japanologie der Universität Wien).Tokyo’s architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city
Purkarthofer, F., 1 May 2020, Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics. Holthus, B., Gagné, I., Manzenreiter, W. & Waldenberger, F. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 47-51 5 p.The Narrow Streets behind the Doors of Perception: Everyday Urban Spaces Studied through Multisensory Perception and Fragmented Discourses
Purkarthofer, F., 2 Apr 2020, Jaws Newsletter (Japan Antropology Workshop).An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network: by Michael Fisch, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press
Purkarthofer, F., 2020, Contemporary Japan: journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, 32, 1, p. 145-147 3 p.Tokyo behind Screens: Participant Observation in a City of Mobile Digital Communication
Purkarthofer, F., 17 Mar 2019, In: International Quarterly for Asian Studies. 50, 3-4, p. 55–78 24 p.Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs): Innenansicht politischen Engagements, dessen Erfolg und Ende
Purkarthofer, F., Mühleder, P. & Eder, A., Jan 2017, In: Minikomi Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan. 86, p. 5 - 10EDITORIAL: Themenschwerpunkt: Kritik — 評論・批評
Purkarthofer, F., Mühleder, P. & Kamerer, T., 2014, In: Minikomi Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan. 84Activities
VSJF Annual Conference 2024 - Sustainability in Japan (Event)
Purkarthofer, F. (Other role) & Reiher, C. (Other role)
Disentangling the relationships between race, propertyand climate finance Workshop
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
The curious case of evicted, acquired and abandoned land in Japan
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Sound control, authoritarian listening and sonorous negotiations in Western Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Asian Sound Cultures Conference
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
16th Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH 2024)
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Life on the line: Inquiries into the daily struggles of urban communities along commuter train tracks in Tokyo through the social space of ‘eki-mae’
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
ICAS 13 - Crossways of Knowledge
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Multi-Sensory Nexus eki-mae: A Case Study of Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces in three Western Tokyo Neighbourhoods
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Joint Symposium 2024 Kyoto University - University of Vienna
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Von machiaruki (まち歩き) zu machizukuri (まちづくり) – von Stadtbegehung zu Stadtgestaltung: eine außereuropäische Perspektive auf die Möglichkeiten einer multisensorischen mobile Methode
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Tagung für Neue Kulturgeographie in Münster 2024
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
17th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (Event)
Purkarthofer, F. (Other role) & Klien, S. (Other role)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Journal)
Purkarthofer, F. (Reviewer)
Urban planning (Journal)
Purkarthofer, F. (Reviewer)
On the Road (Again): Plädoyer für kritisch-involvierte Feldforschung an Orten des alltäglichen Lebens und gegen einen misanthropischen Wissenschaftsbetrieb
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Tōno–Tōkyō und retour: Reflexionen über räumliche und geographische Ausdrucksformen sozialer Differenzierung in japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Kamerer, T. (Speaker)
Post-Human anthropology of the senses: An attempt to disentangle Tokyo’s localities from jumbled line(s), split screens, and (dis-)connections
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Gentrification or what? Refining Gentrification in the Context of Japanese Cities
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Imai, H. (Speaker)
To Whom It May Concern: Rethinking the Questions of ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ Through Sensation, Affect and Involvement
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
u:japan lectures (Event)
Purkarthofer, F. (Editorial assistant), Leitner, B. (Editorial assistant) & Kummer, C. (Editorial assistant)
Trains of Thought: Inquiries into the Social Space of eki-mae through the Everyday Practices of Waiting, Meeting and Leaving
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Erlesenes Erforschen: "Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics"
Purkarthofer, F. (Contributor), Manzenreiter, W. (Contributor), Holthus, B. (Contributor) & Gallmetzer, C. (Selected presenter)
Entangled Im/Mobilities
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Sources of Disaster
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
u:japan lectures (Event)
Purkarthofer, F. (Editorial assistant), Leitner, B. (Editorial assistant) & Kummer, C. (Editorial assistant)
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Arts-Based Research in der Stadt- und Raumforschung
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Purkarthofer, F. (Reviewer)
Publication strategy in Japanese Studies
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
u:japan
Manzenreiter, W. (Participant) & Purkarthofer, F. (Organiser)
u:japan lectures (Event)
Purkarthofer, F. (Editorial assistant), Leitner, B. (Editorial assistant) & Kummer, C. (Editorial assistant)
The Narrow Streets Behind the Doors of Perception: Unscrambling Everyday Urban Space Through Senses and Discourses
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Shifts in Urban Transformation: Tokyo’s Architecture and Urban Structure Analyzed Through the 2020 Olympic Games
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
The City Behind the Screens: Digitally Shared Perceptions and Networks of Imagined Tastes and Smells
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Tokyo Topoi – Was urbane Orte ausmacht und was aus Orten gemacht wird
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
“Inner city life, inner city pressure” Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses (DIJ Social Science Study Group)
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Home is where the hatred is: Rendering ‘the local’ through proximity and affect in urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
From Transport to Movement and Noise to Sound: Researching Western Tokyo through Conflicting Auditory Sensations
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Multisensorische Räume im Zeitalter des Virtuellen: Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion von urbanen Räumen in Zeiten vermehrter und vermischter Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Promovierendenworkshop für interdisziplinäre Japanforschung
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Purkarthofer, F. (Visiting researcher)
Minikomi: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies (Journal)
Purkarthofer, F. (Reviewer)
Communicating Public Spaces – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Die Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit: Wahrnehmungen und Konstruktionen von urbanen Räumen im gegenwärtigen Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
The 24th Nichibunken International Symposium
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Theorie Café
Purkarthofer, F. (Organiser), Kamerer, T. (Organiser) & Mühleder, P. (Organiser)
Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Mühleder, P. (Speaker)
“Space Oddity – Fragmented Discourses on Socially Constructed Urban Spaces in Western Tokyo”
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
VSJF Annual Conference 2017
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Utopian Critique and Critical Urban Utopias – about the paradox of utopian critique (not) becoming a lived urban utopia
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Cultural Typhoon in Europe 2017
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS 2017)
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
13th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students (2017)
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Whose Games? Whose City? Whom should we ask? - Questioning contemporary forms of decision making and public participation in urban planning projects
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
London, Rio, Tokyo Olympics Symposium - Goldsmiths, University of London 8-10th June 2017
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Literatur im Herbst 2016: Echos aus Japan
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Rural Areas between Decline and Resurgence
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
„Die Verarbeitung von Katastrophen und Traumata in Literatur und fiktionalen Medienproduktionen“
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Cultural Typhoon in Europe
Purkarthofer, F. (Organiser) & Kamerer, T. (Organiser)
5th International Postgraduate Conference at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University: „Whose Voice? Theory & Practice“
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
“Shimokita Voice” but Meidaimae Silence? - An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
19th Asian Studies Conference Japan
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Minikomi Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan (Journal)
Purkarthofer, F. (Editorial assistant), Kamerer, T. (Editorial assistant) & Mühleder, P. (Editorial assistant)
Cultural Typhoon 2014
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Purkarthofer, F. (Visiting researcher)
Heterotopoi in Japan
Purkarthofer, F. (Participant)
Hyôron 評論
Purkarthofer, F. (Organiser), Kamerer, T. (Organiser) & Mühleder, P. (Organiser)
Prizes
JASSO Scholarship - Student Exchange Support Program (Scholarship for Short-term Study in Japan)
Purkarthofer, F. (Recipient), 1 Sept 2008
MEXT Schoolarship for Research Students
Purkarthofer, F. (Recipient), 1 Apr 2014
Press/Media
Soziales und ästhetisches Tokyo: Japanische Impressionen im Olympiajahr 2021
Purkarthofer, F.
4/08/21
1 item of Media coverage
Stadtgeschichte Tokyos
Purkarthofer, F.
6/08/20
1 Media contribution
The curious case of evicted, acquired and abandoned land in Japan
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Sound control, authoritarian listening and sonorous negotiations in Western Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Life on the line: Inquiries into the daily struggles of urban communities along commuter train tracks in Tokyo through the social space of ‘eki-mae’
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Multi-Sensory Nexus eki-mae: A Case Study of Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces in three Western Tokyo Neighbourhoods
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Von machiaruki (まち歩き) zu machizukuri (まちづくり) – von Stadtbegehung zu Stadtgestaltung: eine außereuropäische Perspektive auf die Möglichkeiten einer multisensorischen mobile Methode
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
On the Road (Again): Plädoyer für kritisch-involvierte Feldforschung an Orten des alltäglichen Lebens und gegen einen misanthropischen Wissenschaftsbetrieb
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tōno–Tōkyō und retour: Reflexionen über räumliche und geographische Ausdrucksformen sozialer Differenzierung in japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Kamerer, T. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Post-Human anthropology of the senses: An attempt to disentangle Tokyo’s localities from jumbled line(s), split screens, and (dis-)connections
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Gentrification or what? Refining Gentrification in the Context of Japanese Cities
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Imai, H. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
To Whom It May Concern: Rethinking the Questions of ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ Through Sensation, Affect and Involvement
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Trains of Thought: Inquiries into the Social Space of eki-mae through the Everyday Practices of Waiting, Meeting and Leaving
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Narrow Streets Behind the Doors of Perception: Unscrambling Everyday Urban Space Through Senses and Discourses
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Shifts in Urban Transformation: Tokyo’s Architecture and Urban Structure Analyzed Through the 2020 Olympic Games
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The City Behind the Screens: Digitally Shared Perceptions and Networks of Imagined Tastes and Smells
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokyo Topoi – Was urbane Orte ausmacht und was aus Orten gemacht wird
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
“Inner city life, inner city pressure” Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses (DIJ Social Science Study Group)
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Home is where the hatred is: Rendering ‘the local’ through proximity and affect in urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
From Transport to Movement and Noise to Sound: Researching Western Tokyo through Conflicting Auditory Sensations
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Multisensorische Räume im Zeitalter des Virtuellen: Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion von urbanen Räumen in Zeiten vermehrter und vermischter Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Communicating Public Spaces – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Die Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit: Wahrnehmungen und Konstruktionen von urbanen Räumen im gegenwärtigen Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Mühleder, P. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Space Oddity – Fragmented Discourses on Socially Constructed Urban Spaces in Western Tokyo”
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Utopian Critique and Critical Urban Utopias – about the paradox of utopian critique (not) becoming a lived urban utopia
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Whose Games? Whose City? Whom should we ask? - Questioning contemporary forms of decision making and public participation in urban planning projects
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Shimokita Voice” but Meidaimae Silence? - An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information
Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of East Asian Studies
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