15th EAJS PhD Workshop, University College Cork, 20–23 August 201915th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students– Final Program –University College Cork, Ireland
20–23 August 2019

Participants
Workshop Director
Dr. Till Weingärtner, University College Cork
Senior Advisors
Prof. Dr. Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School
Prof. Dr. Gergana Petkova, Sofia University
Dr. Barbara Pizziconi, SOAS, University of London
Prof. Dr. Christian Tagsold, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Doctoral Students• Aya Adachi (AREA Ruhr)• Carolin Becke (School of East Asian Studies,University of Sheffield)• Melissa Boiko (Ruhr-University Bochum)• Nicholas James Bradley (University of EastAnglia)• Yosuke Buchmeier (Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich & University of Tokyo)• Yuqi Chen (Ludwig Maximilian University ofMunich)• Moeko Hayashi (University of Oxford)• Tamara Kamerer (University of Vienna)• Viktor Koehlich (Hamburg University)• Elena Korshenko (Graduate School of East
Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)• Ksenia Kurochkina (Waseda University
Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies)

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Elisabeth Marx (HCAS Multiple Secularities
University of Leipzig)
Dario Minguzzi (Sapienza University ofRome)
Christoph Schimkowsky (University ofSheffield)
Chaline Timmerarens (Graduate School ofEast Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
Agathe Tran (University Paris DiderotFrance)
An Huy Tran (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Christopher Tso (University of Cambridge)
Jing Wang (University of Sheffield)
Marie Weishaupt (Graduate School of East
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Transportation to the accommodation from the airport and train station
You can use the public bus to reach your accommodations from the airport. Take bus no. 226 or 226atowards Kent Station. Change at Cork Bus Station to bus no. 208 towards Curraheen. For the doctoral
students’ accommodation (Victoria Lodge), get out at Victoria Cross bus stop. It’s about a one minutewalk from the bus stop to Victoria Lodge.

To get to the senior advisors’ accommodation (Garnish House), use also bus no. 226 or 226a towards
Kent Station and get out at Cork Bus Station. Change here to bus no. 205 (towards Bishopstown, CITCampus) or 208 (towards Curraheen) and get out at bus stop Western Road (College Gates). It’s abouta one minute walk from the bus stop to Garnish House.

If you arrive by train at Kent Station, take bus no. 208 towards Curraheen and get out at Victoria Cross
bus stop to reach Victoria Lodge. To reach Garnish House, use the same bus and get out at WesternRoad (College Gates).
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More information on the accommodations can be found below. More information on Ireland’s public
transport system, travel fares, an app for Android devices and a journey planer can be found athttps://www.transportforireland.ie/.

Locations of accommodations, workshop sessions and dinners
1) Accommodation for Doctoral StudentsAll PhD candidates will stay in the student accommodation “Victoria Lodge” in the vicinity of the UCC
campus (about a 20 minute walk). It is building no. 80 on the attached UCC campus map.
You can find more info (including a virtual tour) and directions here:
http://www.ucccampusaccommodation.com/accommodation/victoria-lodge/
Address: Victoria Lodge, Victoria Cross, Cork, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)21 494 1200
Email: victorialodge@ucc.ie
Information on breakfast:
The breakfast is delivered to the refrigerators of the accommodation units - so there are no fixed
breakfast times and no central breakfast room.
2) Accommodation for Senior Advisors
Senior advisors will be accommodated in the “Garnish House” which is also close to the UCC campus(about a 10 minute walk). You can find more information here: http://www.garnish.ie/
Address: Garnish Guesthouse, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)21 4275111.
Fax: +353 (0)21 4273872
Email: info@garnish.ie3) Welcome dinner on 20 August 2019
The welcome dinner will take place in the “Metropole Hotel Cork”. It can be reached from the VictoriaLodge and also from the Garnish House by bus no. 208 (bus stop “Saint Patricks Quay“).
Address: MacCurtain Street, Victorian Quarter, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)21 464 3700
4) Workshop venue
The workshop sessions will take place in the “CACSSS Seminar Room”. The room is located on the UCC
Campus in the “O'Rahilly Building”, room G.27. In this building, the “School of Asian Studies” of UCC’s
department for “Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences” is located. It is in building no. 62 on theattached campus map. On the map, the directions to the O'Rahilly Building have been marked blue3

15th EAJS PhD Workshop, University College Cork, 20–23 August 2019(from Victoria Lodge) and purple (from Garnish House). Please take not that one of UCC’s main
entrances at Gaol Bridge (41 on the campus map) is currently not accessible due to construction
works.
You can find more maps and other useful information on the UCC’s website athttps://www.ucc.ie/en/discover/visit/maps/.
5) Dinner on 21 August
Restaurant "Thali Nepal"
Address: 31 Popes Quay, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)21 455 3389
6) Dinner on 22 August
Restaurant "Luigi Malones"
Address: 1-2 Emmett Pl, Centre, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 21 427 8877
7) Lunch on 21 and 22 August
Lunch takes place in the “Main Restaurant” on the UCC campus. It is located in building no. 57 on thecampus map.
8) Pub recommendations
Tom Barry's, 113 Barrack Street
The Oval, 25 South Main Street
Bodega, 44-45 Cornmarket Street4

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Workshop Program
DAY 1, Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Until afternoon

Arrival at accommodation

19:00

Welcome Dinner at Restaurant “Metropole Hotel Cork”, MacCurtain Street,Victorian Quarter, Cork.

DAY 2, Wednesday, 21 August 2019
The Workshop sessions take place in the “CACSSS Seminar Room”. The room is located on the UCC
Campus in the “O'Rahilly Building”, room G.27.
8:30 – 8:40

Workshop start and welcome by Till Weingärtner

8:40 – 10:40

Session 1: Literature (1)•Dario Minguzzi: “From Above the Clouds to the Plain of Reeds: Poetry and Power in Ninth-Century
Japan: Textual Representations of the Early Heian Court from Ryōunshū (Collection Soaring Above
the Clouds, 814) to Kanke bunsō (Literary Drafts of the Sugawara House, 900)” (Petkova)•Agathe Tran: “Verbal and Visual crossings in Sôseki’s Literary Aesthetics” (Petkova)•Nicholas Bradley: “The Cat & The City: Exploring Japanese culture as an outsider from within
through the figure of the cat in Japanese literature” (Weingärtner)

10:40 – 11:00

Coffee and tea break

11:00 – 12:20

Session 2: Literature (2)•Yuqi Chen: “Reshaping the War: Landscapes of Postmemory in Contemporary Japanese Fiction”(Weingärtner)•Tamara Kamerer: “Writing (in) Iwate: Exploring a Local Literary Scene and its Fiction” (Petkova)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch5

15th EAJS PhD Workshop, University College Cork, 20–23 August 201914:00– 14:40•Session 3: Religion

Elisabeth Marx: “Notions of the Secular in Intellectual Discourse on Japan” (Petkova)

14:40 – 14:50

Short break

14:50 – 16:10

Sessions 4: Language•

Melissa Boiko: “The Tōhoku Gairin dialects and what they can tell us about the history of theJapanese language” (Pizziconi)•Viktor Koehlich: “Nominal Modification in Modern Standard Japanese” (Pizziconi)

16:10 – 16:30

Coffee and tea break16:30 – 17:50

Session 5: Minorities•Chaline Timmerarens: “The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Migrants in Japan” (Hidasi)•An Huy Tran: “Negotiating Sexualities and Masculinities in Transnational Migration: VietnameseMale Migrants in Contemporary Japan” (Tagsold)

19:00

Dinner at Restaurant "Thali Nepal"

DAY 3, Thursday, 22 August 20198:40 – 10:40•

Session 1: Politics and Society

Elena Korshenko: “Perpetual Instability? Life Cycles of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 20052016” (Tagsold)•Christoph Schimkowsky: “Friendly but pervasive: regulatory signage and the maintenance ofpublic order in Tokyo” (Pizziconi)•Ksenia Kurochkina “Resettlement of Young People to the Countryside in Japan: Alternative Life
Choices in the Changing Society” (Hidasi)

10:40 – 11:00

Coffee and tea break6

15th EAJS PhD Workshop, University College Cork, 20–23 August 201911:00 – 12:20•Session 2: Economy and Society

Aya Adachi: “Domestic Actors and Institutional Settings of Regional Trade Policy-Making: aComparative Case Study of China and Japan” (Tagsold)•Jing Wang: “Elderly care management in Japan and China” (Tagsold)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:40

Session 3: Media•

Yosuke Buchmeier: “The Construction of Reality on NHK Television News” (Pizziconi)

14:40 – 14:50

Short Break

14:50 – 16:10

Session 4: Society•Christopher Tso: “Grooming at work: white-collar men’s experiences of grooming and bodily
appearance in contemporary Japan” (Hidasi)•Marie Weishaupt: “Defying the ‘New Normal’? (In)Visibility, Risk Perception and Social
Appropriateness in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” (Hidasi)

16:10 – 16:30

Coffee and tea break

16:30 – 17:50

Session 5: Culture•Carolin Becke: “Kimono and its representations in contemporary Japanese society”(Weingärtner)•Moeko Hayashi: “British Musical Representations of Japan from the Late Nineteenth Century tothe Present” (Weingärtner)

19:00

Dinner at Restaurant "Luigi Malones"

DAY 4, Friday, 23 August 2019
Breakfast
Individual departure after breakfast
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We gratefully acknowledge financial support for this event from:8