We were inspired by the Cultural Typhoon, an international conference that unites academics, artists and activists for a few days every year at a location in Japan. Our conference honours the Cultural Typhoon and its ideas, yet we do not want to copy the concept, but seek to create something new by swirling in some aspects of Europe, some East Asian Studies, and a great portion of inter- and anti-disciplinary cooperation. The wind is rising and the typhoon is going to arrive in Vienna this September, but it is highly likely that the Cultural Typhoon will be spotted again somewhere else in Europe in the future.
This conference provides a platform for young researchers and scholars (from more than 10 different nations and over 25 different institutions) from the fields of East Asian Studies, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences to debate, connect and network, by discussing the topic of Places and Spaces of Cultural Production in East Asia.
Thursday, 22nd of September
Programme
Thursday, 22nd of September |
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12:00 | Registration starts |
14:00 | Inaugural Address: THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM |
14:30 | PANEL 1 [expert panel]: “Movie Theatres in Japan” |
16:00 | ART-Slot 1: “Abandonment is Human” |
17:00 | Opening KEYNOTE: MŌRI Yoshitaka (Tokyo University of the Arts) |
Friday, 23rd of September |
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10:00 | PANEL 2: “art/stage/space” PANEL 3: “Placed History” |
12:00 | PANEL 4: “Cultured Consumption” PANEL 5: “Workers, Verses, Wastelands” |
14:30 | PANEL 6: “Constructing Japaneseness” PANEL 7: “Gendered Spaces” |
16:30 | PANEL 8: “Media Shaping Identities” ART-Slot 2: “Documentaries of Japanese Artisans in Aachen” |
18:00 | ART-Slot 3: “Dance Performance” |
18:30 | Talk and Discussion: Steffi RICHTER & Martin ROTH (University Leipzig) |
Saturday, 24th of September |
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10:00 | Vienna KEYNOTE: KOMIYA Masayasu (Yokohama National University) » subsequent » PANEL 9: “Vienna Calling” |
12:30 | ART-Slot 4: “Cosmic Drama” |
14:30 | PANEL 10: “House, Heritage and Material Spaces” PANEL 11: “The Space of the Unsaid” |
16:30 | PANEL 12: “Cultivating Safe Spaces” PANEL 13: “Translocal Multiculturalism” |
18:30 | Final Discussion: AFTER THE STORM |
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
JAP 1, JAP 2, Studierraum
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