31. Gender-Workshop zur Japanforschung 2025
31. Gender-Workshop im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V., (06.-07. November 2025)
Veranstaltungsort/Venue:
Day 1: University of Vienna Main Building, Marietta-Blau-Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
Day 2: Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus), 1090 Vienna
Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei, formlose Anmeldung ist erwünscht /
Participation is free of charge, registration is appreciated
Registration: schadsei[at]hhu.de
Annette Schad-Seifert, Kerstin Fooken
Programm
Donnerstag, 06.11.2025 / Thursday, November 6, 2025
Location: Marietta-Blau-Saal
Begrüßung / Welcome
13:00 Uhr
Annette Schad-Seifert, Kerstin Fooken
Panel I: Women, Media and Social Realities
13:30 Uhr
Adult Women’s Disconnection from Legacy Mass Media and Entertainment in Japan in the 2020s
Sharon Kinsella, University of Manchester (UK)
14:10 Uhr
Ageing Alone in Japan: The Precarity Faced by Middle-Aged Never Married Women
Caitlin Meagher, University of North Carolina (USA)
14:50 Uhr
“My Life Has Been Enriched”: Older Women as Digital Role Models
Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer, Universität Wien (Austria)
15:30 – 16:00 Uhr
Pause / Break
Panel II: Political Representation and Gender
16:00 Uhr
Legislative Representation of Women in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Issue Bill Initiation and Adoption
Elena Korshenko, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
16:40 Uhr
Little Divide in Views, Deep Divide in Practices: Institutions and Culture that Keep Gender Matter in Substantive Representation
Tanaka Shoko, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
17:20 Uhr
“Names are a Human Right”: Mapping Human Rights Framings in Parliamentary Debates on Separate Surnames with Computational Methods
Johanna Fritzi Momm, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
19:00 Uhr
Gemeinsames Abendessen / Restaurant Dinner
Wirtshaus Brösl, Wohlmutstraße 23, 1020 Wien
Freitag, 07.11.2025 / Friday, November 7, 2025
Location: Institut für Japanologie / Institute of Japanese Studies
Panel III: Who is Afraid of Gender?
09:00 Uhr
Transnational Transphobia: Anti-Transgender Discourses and their International Influences in Contemporary Japan
Lyman R.T. Gamberton, Independent Scholar (UK)
09:40 Uhr
*Solidarity Instead of ‘Eat or be Eaten’: Female Strategies Against Oppression and Exploitation in the Manga Series Yakusoku no Nebārando
Tim Heißenberger, Universität Wien (Austria)
Panel IV: Gender and Empire
10:50 Uhr
(Homo-)National Pasts? Male Queer Desire and/as Tradition in Imperial Japan
Andy Astakhova, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
11:30 Uhr
Fighting with Fantasy: Kazuko Murayama’s Use of The Absurd as Resistance to Gendered Inequality in Imperial Japan
Joe Nickols, SOAS University of London / The British Museum (UK)
12:10 Uhr
Abschlussdiskussion / Closing Discussion