u:japan lectures | Season 03 | Fall-Winter 2021/22

• #11 | 2022-01-13 [coming soon]
  Adrian Favell - ISLANDS FOR LIFE: Art Projects and Post-Growth Philosophies in Japan
  
  
• #9 | 2021-12-09
  Junko Fukumoto - Community-based Renewable Energy Structures: A Case of Small Hydropower in a Japanese Rural Community

• #8 | 2021-12-02
  Michael Strausz - Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
  
  
• #7 | 2021-11-25
  Christoph Schimkowsky - “Manner Posters” and the Management of Passenger Etiquette on Japanese Urban Railways
  
  
• #6 | 2021-11-18
  Maren Haufs-Brusberg - Japankoreanische hibakusha als Irritation nationaler Narrative: Die Erzählung Saihate no futari („Zwei Menschen am Rande“, 1999) von Sagisawa Megumu
  
  
• #4 | 2021-11-04
  Ronald Saladin - Das Ende des Intimen: Raumkonstruktionen in Murata Sayakas Satsujin Shussan
  
  
• #3 | 2021-10-28
  Frauke Kempka & André Hertrich - What Does the Individual Stand for? Victims, Survivors and Noble Spirits in Japanese Memorial Museums
  
  
• #2 | 2021-10-21
  Anna-Lena von Garnier - Frauen als groteske Monster – Weiblichkeit und Abjektion in den Werken Kirino Natsuos
  
  
• #1 | 2021-10-14
  Yola Gloaguen - Tatamis and Concrete – Antonin Raymond and the challenges of early modern architecture in interwar Japan

u:japan lectures | Season 02 | Spring 2021

• #13 | 2021-06-24
  Brigitte Steger - A hug on trash day (ハグは資源ゴミの日): Actualising social order through household waste disposal practices
  
  
• #12 | 2021-06-17
  Cornelia Reiher - Revitalizing rural Japan through crafts
  
  
• #11 | 2021-06-10
  Brian Victoria - Zen and the Art of Ending Taishō Democracy
  
  
• #10 | 2021-05-27
  Christoph Brumann - From Private to Public and Back? The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
  
  
• #8 | 2021-05-06
  Aya Homei - Science for Governing Japan’s Population

• #6 | 2021-04-22
  Katarzyna J. Cwiertka - From Glass to Plastics: The Packaging Revolution of Postwar Japan
  
  
• #5 | 2021-04-15
  Gabriele Vogt | LMU Munich - Local Governance in Okinawa
  
  
• #3 | 2021-03-18
  Anne Aronsson - Conceptualizing Robotic Agency: Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan
  
  
• #1 | 2021-03-04
  Jasmin Rückert - Geschlecht und Faschismus in Darstellungen der japanischen Siedlungsaktivitäten in der Mandschurei

u:japan lectures | Season 01 | Autumn-Winter 2020/21

• #11 | 2021-01-28
  Stefan Würrer - The Single-Gender Worlds of Suzuki Izumi, Kurahashi Yumiko and Shōno Yoriko – A Short History of Ambivalence Towards All-Female Worlds in Japanese Speculative Fiction 
  
  
• #10 | 2021-01-14
  Asahi Yoshiyuki - Japanese in the Age of Post-Standardization: Language Trends in the 21st Century
  
  
• #09 | 2021-01-07
  Sarah Terrail Lormel - The fear of others – Taijinkyōfu: Emergence, development and demise of a psychiatric diagnosis
  
  
• #07 | 2020-12-10
  Paulina Kolata - Storehouses of value: materiality of belonging in Japanese Buddhist temples
  
  
• #06 | 2020-11-26
  Shilla Lee - ‘Creativity’ in rural Japan: Sōzō nōson and its implications in regional revitalization policies
  [available until 2021-01-31]
  
  
• #05 | 2020-11-19
  Daniel White - Model Emotion: Android Perspectives on Affect in Japan
  
  
• #03 | 2020-10-29
  William W. Kelly - 85 years of Suye Mura: The life history of a Japanese village—and its anthropology

• #02 | 2020-10-22
  Maria Roemer - Abe Kazushige’s Male Homosocial Worlds: Duels and Complaints
  
  
• #01 | 2020-10-15
  Anna Lughezzani - Work "like a woman": The construction of femininity and the female body in the Japanese job hunting

u:japan lectures | Pre-Season (s00) | Spring-Summer 2020

• #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