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Thursday 23 May
09:45-10:00 Registration (badge pickup) (1441-113 Aud. 3)
10:00-10:20 Opening of the conference: A word from the NAJS Steering Committee, The Global Studies Head of Department. (group photo)
10:30-12:00 Parallel Session 1 & 2
Session 1 Theater, Film (Room 1465-215)
Chair: Jens Sejrup
1: Dunja Jelesijevic – Mad Mothers and Ghostly Children: Japanese Horror Film as Modern Mother/Child Monogurui (Stegewerns, Hamano)
2: Rebecca Suter – Two-world Cinema: from Kurosawa Akira’s Ikiru to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Living (Prusa, Puntervold)
Session 2 Economics (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Patrik Ström
1: Keiko Toya – A Study of Servitization and Corporate Culture (Hansen, Malmstrom Rognes)
2: Marco Zappa – Policy diffusion from South to North? The case of Japanese Special Economic Zones (Baradel & Breuer, Hedegaard)
3: Åsa Malmström Rognes – Economic Security – the revival of industrial policy? (Bochorodycz, Panda)
12:00-13:00 Lunch break (sandwiches)
13:00-14:30 Parallel Sessions 3 & 4
Session 3 Narcotics, Animals, Parenting (Room 1465-215)
Chair: Dick Stegewerns
1: Martina Baradel & Niles Breuer – Follow the drugs: methods, routes, and entry of narcotics into Japan (Prusa, Ström)
2: Michal Kolmaš – Contested Environmental Norms: Cultural Narratives and Animal Protection in Modern Japan (Kolata, Stone)
3: Takeshi Hamano – Ambiguities of Post-Divorce Families: A Challenge of Co-parenting with Support Organisation in Japan (Baradel & Breuer, Kolmaš)
Session 4 Japan, China, Taiwan (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Raymond Yamamoto
1: Jacob Hedegaard – Friendship Group Delegations and the Deinstitutionalization of Resentment in Japan-China Relations (Bochorodycz, Panda)
2: Jagannath Panda – Taiwan in Japan’s Post-Abe Foreign Policy: Between “Red Line” and “Cross-Strait” Line (Sejrup, Zappa)
3: Zdenka P. Kyselova – Rethinking Human Rights in Japanese Foreign Policy: Japan's Response to Human Rights Violations in China (Suter, Stortini)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:30 Parallel Sessions 5 & 6
Session 5 Heroes, Gender (Room 1465-215)
Chair: Raymond Yamamoto
1: Dick Stegewerns – Shigenobu Fusako and Nagata Hiroko - Heroine and Villaine of the Revolutionary Left (Yamamoto, Malmstrom Rognes)
2: Miklas Fahrenwaldt – Portraying Victimised Women and Nationalist Men: Gender and Visuality in the Narration of Japan’s “Abduction Issue” (Farina, Kyselova)
3: Sri Ayu Wulansari – Human Rights Activist Women’s Practice in Japan and Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis with Special Reference to their Advocacy of Gender Equality (Hamano, Hedegaard)
Session 6 Space, Time, City (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Jonathan Puntervold
1: Jens Sejrup – Palace of Time: Temporal Symbolism at the Reconstructed Imperial Palace in Nara, Japan (Honda, Suter)
2: Patrik Ström – A service ecology as a framework to capture multi-layered smart city initiatives in Japan and Sweden: A literature review (Toya, Kolmaš)
16:45-18:00 Keynote lecture 1 (1441-113 Aud. 3)
Chair: Raymond Yamamoto
18:00-19:00 Reception (Outside 1441-113 Aud. 3)
20:00 Dinner - Madklubben Aarhus
https://www.madklubben.dk/restauranter/aarhus/madklubben/aarhus
Friday 24 May
09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions 7 & 8
Session 7 Meiji (Room 1465-215 + online)
Chair: Amanda Brødsgaard
1: Andreas Eichleter – Royalty, Railways and Modernity - The role of Emperor Meiji in the eyes of foreigners (Arora, Hansen)
2: Eiko Honda – Multispecies intellectual History of Cellular Metaphysics: Minakata Kumagusu's Slime Moulds, Buddhist Science and the First Principles, 1893-1894 (Arora, Larsson)
3: Shweta Arora – In Search of Freedom: Migration and Gender Norms in Yosano Akiko's Keshimochi (Poppyseed rice cake, 1910) (Wulansari, De Gennaro)
Session 8 Diplomacy, World Order (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Jacob Hedegaard
1: Beata Bochorodycz – The “Invented Trauma”: Gulf War Experience and Foreign Policy Change in Japan after the Cold War (Zappa, Fahrenwaldt)
2: Pekka Korhonen – Japanese Visions of World Order (Stegewerns, Ström)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Keynote Lecture 2 (1441-113 Aud. 3)
Chair: Eiko Honda
12:00-13:00 Lunch break (Tokyo Kitchen)
13:00-14:30 Parallel Sessions 9 & 10
Session 9 Literature, Poetry, Linguistics (Room 1465-215)
Chair: Jiro Tomioka (TBC)
1: Alana Stone – Fractures of the 1950s: Disjointed body parts and the anthropofugal in Abe Kobo's “The Sheep's Appendix” (Stortini, De Gennaro)
2: Damiana De Gennaro – Thirty-one-syllable Japanese Poetry Addressing Gender Troubles (Stone, Wulansari)
3: Jonathan Puntervold – ‘The true nature of our language’: Yamada Yoshio and the Japanese revolt against Western linguistics in the early 20th century (Eichleter, Farina)
Session 10 Politics (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Jens Sejrup
1: Ernils Larsson – The Association of Shinto Shrines and the "Shinto Right" in Postwar Japan (Jelesijevic, Kolata)
2: Igor Prusa – Political Corruption in Japan and the LDP Funding Scandal (Fahrenwaldt, Yamamoto)
3: Raymond Yamamoto – Coast Guard Capacity Building Under Abe Shinzō: Between Power, Money and Norms (Kyselova, Korhonen)
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-16:15 Parallel Sessions 11 & 12
Session 11 Food (Room 1465-215)
Chair: Dick Stegewerns
1: Felice Farina – From hunger to hope: the rhetoric of food in the American Psychological Warfare against Japan (Brødsgaard, Puntervold)
2: Paulina Kolata – Consuming Buddhist Excess: Life Stories of Rot, Loss, and Reuse from Japan’s Temple Kitchens (Jelesijevic, Larsson)
Session 12 ODA, Migration (Room 1465-218)
Chair: Raymond Yamamoto
1: Annette Hansen – Telling Successes: Negotiating what counts as successful impact of ODA funded overseas technical and management trading (Toya, Korhonen)
2: Paride Stortini – Remembering Restless Souls: Agency, Identity, and Religion in a Buddhist Memorial for Japanese Migrant Sex Workers to South Asia in Shimabara (Eichleter, Sejrup)
16:30-17:00 NAJS in the future (1441-113 Aud. 3)
Closing of the conference
