• s09e09 | 2025-01-09
  Gabriele Vogt | An Aging Democracy: How Young Japanese Engage with Politics
• s09e08 | 2024-12-12
  Ferran de Vargas | What are the origins of Japanese fascism? Exploring the postwar debates through political theory and film practice
• s09e07 | 2024-12-05
  Aimi Muranaka|  Staying without permanent settlement among Vietnamese IT professionals in Japan  
• s09e06 | 2024-11-28
  Chiara Fusari | Anti-rape activism in Japan from the 1980s
• s09e04 | 2024-11-07
  Junki Nakahara | Struggles over national memory and “shame”-based nationalism in Japan: Analysis of audience reception of the documentary film Shusenjo
• s09e03 | 2024-10-31
  Wolfram Manzenreiter | You‘ll never walk alone? The meaning of social relations and belonging for happiness in rural Japan
• s09e02 | 2024-10-24
  Nanase Shirota | Precarious stepping stones: Transnational Japanese Hostesses in London and their labour, career and gendered migration
• s09e01 | 2024-10-17
  Florentine Koppenborg | Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance: Why Japan Struggles to Revive Nuclear Power

• #14 | 2023-06-29 
  Zen in den Kampfkünsten, oder wie verhält sich Religion zum Krieg?
  
  
• #13 | 2023-06-22
  User Engagement Against Online Hate Speech: The #Netto-uyo BAN Matsuri since 2018
  
  
• #12 | 2023-06-15
  Higuchi Ryuichi: "Über meinen Großvater und dessen Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit der jüdischen Emigration nach Osten"
  
  
• #10 | 2023-05-25
  Climate Change: Trends, Policies, and Japan‘s Efforts in the Global Endeavours towards Net-Zero
  
  
• #09 | 2023-05-11
  Women and Martial Art in Japan
  
  
• #08 | 2023-05-04
  Yakuwarigo – real or fictionalized speech? How real Japanese influences role languages and how role languages are reflected in real Japanese
  
  
• #06 | 2023 -04-20
  The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities
  
  
• #04 | 2023-03-23
  Carmen Sapunaru Tămaș - It’s a (Gentle)Men’s World: Gendered Communities within Tenjin Matsuri
  
  
• #03 | 2023-03-16
  Roland Domenig - Jüdische Filmemacher im Shanghaier Exil während der japanischen Okkupation: Betrachtungen zum Dokumentarfilm Driven People/ Sokoku o owarete (1940) von Gertrud Wolffsohn
  
  
• #02 | 2023-03-09
  Wolfgang Herbert - Die Yakuza im Aussterben: Neu(un)ordnung der japanischen Unterwelt
  
  
• #01 | 2023-03-02
  坪井秀人 Tsuboi Hideto - キャンプ文学の構想：旧満洲、シベリアその他 - Ein kleines Konzept von Lager-Literatur: Mandschurei, Siberien usw
  
  

Season 4 Booklet (all posters, abstracts, and biographies combined in a single pdf)

 

• #13 | 2022-06-30
  Heide Imai - Neighborhood Tokyo: Creative Urban Milieus as Places of Innovation and Polarization

 

• #12 | 2022-06-23
  Yuki Asahina - Millennials’ Senses of Inequality: Class, Gender, and Legitimation of Differences in Tokyo

 

• #10 | 2022-06-02
  Takahashi Shin - Japanesia (Yaponesia), the Arc of Ryūkyū, and Shimao Toshio’s Cultural Resistance against the Colonial Politics of the Past

 

• #09 | 2022-05-19
  Alfred Gerstl, Olga Khomenko, Steven Denney & Martin Mandl, moderated by Agnes S. Schick-Chen - East Asian Reactions to Russia’s War in Ukraine: Governmental and Civil Society Responses

• #08 | 2022-05-12
  Polina Ivanova - International students and their organisations in Japan during the pandemic and beyond

• #07 | 2022-05-05
  Maiko Kodaka - Oshi-katsu, Supporting activity: Recognition and Intimacy as Commodities from the Anthropological Study of Japanese josei-muke Adult Video Fan Communities

• #05 | 2022-04-07
  Miloš Debnár - Let's make it an inconvenient place here: Opposing over-tourism in Kyoto’s Gion before and during the pandemic

• #03 | 2022-03-24
  Olga Khomenko - Ukrainian Diaspora in Occupied Manchuria: Articulating the Needs for the Independent State (1932-1945)
  

• #02 | 2022-03-17
  Susanne Klien - Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society

• #01 | 2022-03-10
  Andrea de Antoni - They Heard it Through the Grapevine: Rumour Spreading, Poisonous Knowledge and the Political Ecology of Hauntings in Contemporary Japan

• #04 | 2020-06-26
  Arthur Mitteau - From Fenollosa to Kokubungaku
  
  
• #03 | 2020-06-18
  Marc Yamada - Locating Heisei in Japanese Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades 
  [available until 2020-08-31]
  
  
• #02 | 2020-06-04
  Marianna Zanetta - Shamanic practices in contemporary Japan: Local habits and national fascination
  
  
• #01 | 2020-05-18
  Maika Nakao - Tracing Atomic Utopia and Dystopia in Japan