International Workshop: The Intimate in and beyond Pandemic Times, DIJ Tokyo, 5 Nov. 2022

The Intimate in and beyond Pandemic Times: Family, Personal Relationships
and SinglehoodSpeakers (in alphabetical order)
Laura Dales is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her
main research interests include agency, sexuality, friendship and dating across Asia, as wellas singlehood and marriage in contemporary Japan. She is currently writing a book based on
an ARC-funded project examining intimacy beyond the family in contemporary Japan andworking on a DIJ-funded research project with Dr Nora Kottman, on intimate practices
among unmarried individuals in Japan during COVID.
Daiki Hiramori is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies
at Hosei University. His research interests include quantitative sociology, queer and feminist
studies, sexuality and gender stratification, and the demography of sexual orientation andgender identity. In addition to a PhD in Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Feminist
Studies from the University of Washington, he holds a BA in Sociology with a minor inMathematics from International Christian University.
Saori Kamano obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford University. She is currently aSenior Researcher at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research inTokyo, Japan. Her fields of interest include Family, Sexuality, and Gender, and her recent
research focuses on the demography of sexual orientation and gender identity, quantitative
analyses of the well-being of sexual and gender minorities, as well as relationships and livesof same-gender couples.
Nora Kottmann is principal researcher and head of the research group “Methods andMethodologies” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo. Her research
focuses on issues related to gender, personal relationships, intimacy, mobility, and (not)belonging. She is currently conducting research on (digital) family practices of highly mobile,transnational families and working on a DIJ-funded research project with Dr. Laura Dales, on
intimate practices among unmarried individuals in Japan during COVID.

南後由和（Nango Yoshikazu）明治⼤学情報コミュニケーション学部准教授。社会学、都市・建築論。主な著書に『ひとり空間の都市論』、『商業空間は何の夢を⾒たか』（共著）、『建築の際』（編）など。

International Workshop: The Intimate in and beyond Pandemic Times, DIJ Tokyo, 5 Nov. 2022

鈴⽊七海 (Suzuki Nanami) 2020 年京都⼤学経済学部卒業。2022 年お茶の⽔⼥⼦⼤学
⼤学院人間文化創成科学研究科ジェンダー社会科学専攻卒業。

WANG

ZI XUAN王 紫璇（オウ シセン）
京都⼤学⼤学院 総合⽣存学館（思修館）
五年⼀貫制博⼠課程・３回⽣
研究テーマキーワード：⼥性に対する暴⼒

家庭内暴⼒

東アジア地域

Akiko Yoshida holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma. She recently
retired from, and is to be Professor Emeritus at, the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.
Her research foci are singlehood, gender roles, parenthood, and transnational family care.
Her publications include a research monograph entitled Unmarried Women in Japan: The
Drift into Singlehood (Routledge, 2017), a co-authored referred article, “Gender Role
Attitudes: An Examination of Cohort Effects in Japan” (Journal of Marriage and Family,2019), and a chapter in Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork andMethods (Nomos, 2020).