6. November 2025, von AAI-Redaktion

Foto: VSJF – Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V.

Veranstaltungsort: Universität Wien

Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei, eine Anmeldung vorab ist nicht erforderlich

Programme

Thursday 06/Nov/2025

Venue: Marietta-Blau-Saal

13:00 h Welcome
Annette Schad-Seifert, Kerstin Fooken

Panel 1: Women, Media and Social Realities

13:30 h Adult Women’s Disconnection from Legacy Mass Media and Entertainment in Japan in the 2020s
Sharon Kinsella, University of Manchester (UK)

14:10 h Ageing Alone in Japan: the Precarity Faced by Middle-Aged Never Married Women
Caitlin Meagher, University of North Carolina (USA)

14:50 h “My Life Has Been Enriched”: Older Women as Digital Role Models
Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer, Universität Wien (Austria)

Panel 2: Political Representation and Gender

16:00 h 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 h 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 h “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 h Restaurant Dinner
(Wirtshaus Brösl, Wohlmutstr. 23, 1020 Wien)

Freitag/Friday 07/Nov/2025

Venue: Institute of Japanese Studies

Panel 3: Who is Afraid of Gender?

09:00 h Transnational Transphobia: Anti-Transgender Discourses and their International Influences in Contemporary Japan
Lyman R.T. Gamberton, Independent Scholar (UK)

09:40 h 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 4: Gender and Empire

10:50 h (Homo-)National Pasts? Male Queer Desire and/as Tradition in Imperial Japan
Andy Astakhova, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

11:30 h 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 h Closing Discussion

Kontakt/Contact:

Annette Schad- Seifert (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): schadsei[at]hhu.de

Kerstin Fooken (Universität Hamburg): kerstin.fooken[at]uni-hamburg.de

Homepage des Gender-Workshops auf den Seiten der VSJF: http://vsjf.net/tagungen/gender-workshop/