19th EAJS PhD Workshop at KU Leuven, 14-17 August 2023

19th EAJS PhD Workshop
Irish College, Leuven, 14-17 August 2023
Participants:Senior advisors
Dr. Marta FANASCA (University of Bologna/KU Leuven)Prof. Dr. FUJISAWA Murasaki (Kokugakuin University)
Prof. Dr. Daniel POCH (University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Dr. Jan SCHMIDT (KU Leuven)Prof. Dr. SHIMIZU Yuichirō (Keio University)

Observers, session chairs & advisors•Prof. Dr. AKASHI Tomonori (Kyushu University)•

MURAYAMA Midori, MA (Kyushu University)•Aurel BAELE, MA (KU Leuven)•Stevie POPPE, MA (KU Leuven)•

FUJII Natsumi, MA (Waseda University)•

Dr. Freya TERRYN (KU Leuven)•Prof. Dr. Deborah GIUSTINI (Hamad Bin Khalifa•

WATANABE Keiko, MA (Waseda University)

University)•

Jorinde WELS, MA (KU Leuven)Prof. Dr. MANABE Masayuki (Waseda University)•

Dr. YUAN Jiaxing (Waseda University)•

HUANG Shih-cheng, MA (SOAS University of•Doctoral students•

Stefan AICHHOLZER, MA (Osaka University)•

Mariangela CARPINTERI, MA (University ofLondon)

California, Santa Barbara)•

Artemii KUZNETSOV, MA (University of Oxford)•Federica CAVAZZUTI, MA (University of Turin)•LAN Wen-Wei, MA (Ludwig Maximilian University•

CHEN Ziru, MA (University of Oxford)•Peyton CHERRY, MA (University of Oxford)•LAU Sai Kiet Niki, MA (Heidelberg University)•

Giulia COLELLI, MA (University of Bologna)•

Daniel LOCHMAN, MA (Charles University)•

Katharina DREßEN, MA (Heinrich-Heine University•

Ludovica MARINCIONI, MA (Sapienza University ofof Munich)

Düsseldorf)

Rome)

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FENG Yingzi, MA (University of Edinburgh)•

NAKAMURA Kimihiko, MA (Heidelberg University)•Matteo GIACCHÈ, MA (Newcastle University)•NG Lin Yu, MA (Freie Universität Berlin)•Ben GRAFSTROM, MA (University of Oslo, IKOS)•SUN Yao, MA (University of Oxford)•Marie ULRICH, MA (Kanazawa University)1

19th EAJS PhD Workshop at KU Leuven, 14-17 August 2023

Program
Day 1, Monday, 14 August 2023
18:00 – 18:30
18:30 – 19:15
19:30

Welcome and orientation (Jan SCHMIDT)
Round of brief self-introduction (Chair: Jorinde WELS)
Dinner at restaurant “Timory”

Day 2, Tuesday, 15 August 2023
9:00 – 9:20

Short welcome and information (Jan SCHMIDT)
Session 1 (Chair: Deborah GIUSTINI)

9:20 – 10:00

Stefan AICHHOLZER: Why are Japanese hesitant to marry foreigners? - Explaining the lowinternational marriage rate in Japan (Comment: Marta FANASCA)

10:00 – 10:40 Peyton CHERRY: Intimate Boundaries: Youth Grassroots Organisations Tackling Sexual
Consent in Tokyo (Comment: Marta FANASCA)
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session 2 (Chair: YUAN Jiaxing)
11:00 – 11:40 NG Lin Yu: Precarity and Hope: Migration of People into Fukushima’s former No-Go zones(Comment: SHIMIZU Yuichirō)
11:40 – 12:20 LAU Sai Kiet Niki: Reforms in the local context: Sumiyoshi as a case study for the research
about the implementation of the buraku-measurement policies between 1969 to 2002
(Comment: SHIMIZU Yuichirō)
12:20 – 13:00 Lunch buffet at Irish College
13:00 – 14:00 Individual consultations
Session 3 (Chair: MURAYAMA Midori)
14:00 – 14:40 Katharina DREßEN: Japan’s participation in international sanctions: A comparative study ofJapan’s involvement in economic sanctions’ cases since the second Abe administration(Comment: SHIMIZU Yuichirō)219th EAJS PhD Workshop at KU Leuven, 14-17 August 2023

14:40 – 15:20 Giulia COLELLI: Surviving the catastrophe: hybridity and ‘in-betweeness’ in Japanesedystopias after Fukushima (Comment: Daniel POCH)
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break
Session 4 (Chair: Aurel BAELE)
15:40 – 16:20 Ben GRAFSTROM: The Effects of Japan’s Population Crisis on Rural Folk Religious Festivals(Comment: Marta FANASCA)
16:20 – 17:00 Mariangela CARPINTERI: A Purification Ritual: The Creation and Evolution of the Ōharae(Comment: FUJISAWA Murasaki)
17:00 – 17:20 Coffee break
Session 5 (Chair: WATANABE Keiko)
17:20 – 18:00 Marie ULRICH: Following the kami: Mythology and its utilization in contemporary Japan(Comment: Jan SCHMIDT)
18:00 – 18:40 SUN Yao: New Speakerhood of the Kansai Dialect: Teaching and Learning a Non-Standard
Language in Japan (Comment: Jan SCHMIDT)
18:40 – 19:00 Break
19:00 – 20:00 Individual Consultations
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner buffet at Irish College
Day 3, Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Session 6 (Chair: FUJII Natsumi)
9:00 – 9:40

Ludovica MARINCIONI: Women’s playwriting debut in kabuki theatre and its
linguistic and representational role in the modern Japanese theatre development(Comment: Daniel POCH)

9:40 – 10:20

FENG Yingzi: Japanese Writing on China in the 1950s: A Reflection on‘Collectivism’ and ‘Individualism’ as Different Approaches to Development(Comment: Jan SCHMIDT)

10:20 – 11:00 NAKAMURA Kimihiko: Abstracting Wartime Past: The Transwar Art and Careersof Inokuma Gen’ichirō, Kawabata Minoru, Okada Kenzō, and Takai Teiji(Comment: FUJISAWA Murasaki)
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11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
Session 7 (Chair: Freya TERRYN)
11:20 – 12:00 HUANG Shih-cheng: Alternative Documentary: The Representation of Body inJapanese Photography, 1930s-1960s (Comment: FUJISAWA Murasaki)
12:00 – 12:40 CHEN Ziru: The Sensory Aesthetic of Contemporary East Asian Art Cinema(Comment: Marta FANASCA)
12:40 – 13:20 Lunch buffet at Irish College
13:20 – 14:20 Individual consultations
Session 8 (Chair: Stevie POPPE)
14:20 – 15:00 Federica CAVAZZUTI: The development of female photography in Japan from the1970s to contemporary times (Comment: FUJISAWA Murasaki)
15:00 – 15:40 Matteo GIACCHÈ: The Role of Music in the Novels of Murakami Haruki(Comment: Daniel POCH)
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session 9 (Chair: AKASHI Tomonori)
16:00 – 16:40 LAN Wen-Wei: Female Power in the Empire: Female Japanese Physicians inGermany in the Meiji Era (Comment: Jan SCHMIDT)
16.40 – 17:20 Daniel LOCHMAN: A Fading Friendship: Czechoslovak-Japanese Political andDiplomatic Relations 1929-1939 (Comment: SHIMIZU Yuichirō)
17:20 – 18:00 Artemii KUZNETSOV (University of Oxford): Referential Structure in Japanese: aDiachrony (Comment: Daniel POCH)
18:00 – 18:20 Coffee break
18:20 – 19:20 Individual consultations
19:20 – 19:50 Feedback round and closing words (Fanasca, Fujisawa, Poch, Schmidt, Shimizu)
20:00 – 22:00 Concluding dinner at restaurant Palmyra

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SCHEDULE FOR INDIVIUAL CONSULTATIONSTime

PhD Student
Day 2, Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Senior advisor:

13:00 – 13:30
13:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:00
13:30 – 14:00

For sessions 1-2:
Stefan AICHHOLZER
NG Lin Yu
Peyton CHERRYLAU Sai Kiet NikiMarta FANASCA
SHIMIZU YuichirōMarta FANASCA
SHIMIZU Yuichirō

19:00 – 19:30
19:00 – 19:30
19:00 – 19:30
19:30 – 20:00
19:30 – 20:00
19:30 – 20:00

For sessions 3-5:
Katharina DREßEN
Giulia COLELLIMarie ULRICH
Ben GRAFSTROM
Mariangela CARPINTERISUN Yao

SHIMIZU Yuichirō
Daniel POCH
Jan SCHMIDTMarta FANASCA
FUJISAWA Murasaki
Jan SCHMIDTDay 3, Wednesday, 16 August2023
For sessions 6-7:
13:20 –13:50 Ludovica MARINCIONI
13:20 –13:50 HUANG Shih-cheng
13:50 – 14:20 NAKAMURA Kimihiko
13:50 – 14:20 FENG Yingzi
13:50 – 14:20 CHEN Ziru

18:20 – 18:50
18:20 – 18:50
18:20 – 18:50
18:50 – 19:20
18:50 – 19:20

Daniel POCH
FUJISAWA Murasaki
FUJISAWA Murasaki
Jan SCHMIDT
Marta FANASCA

For sessions 8-9:
Federica CAVAZZUTI
Matteo GIACCHÈLAN Wen-Wei
Daniel LOCHMAN
Artemii KUZNETSOVFUJISAWA Murasaki
Daniel POCH
Jan SCHMIDTSHIMIZU Yuichirō
Daniel POCH

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