Forschungskolloquium

Name: Vortrag von Prof. Shinichi Aizawa: „What Kind of Class Society Is Japan? Rethinking Social Stratification through Capitals and Lifestyles“
Start: 2026-05-07T18:15:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-07T19:45:00+02:00
Location: https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw7070/map?room=707001151_

Januar 2025
Vortrag von Prof. Masato Takahashi, Ph.D.: „Distanzierung zwischen Regierung und Sachverständigen in Japan“

30. Januar 2025 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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Die japanische Politik basierte traditionell auf der Ausbalancierung verschiedener Interessen, die außerhalb der demokratischen Repräsentation der Bevölkerung lagen. Dazu gehörten „Staatswohl“ im Rahmen der Allianz mit den USA, wirtschaftliche Interessen von Industrieverbänden sowie Interessen von religiösen Organisationen. Zusätzlich zu diesen Einflüssen begann die japanische Regierung seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre verstärkt, politische Maßnahmen durch private...
Februar 2025
Filmvorführung I: „Watashitachiwa Ningenda! We Are Human!“ – A Film by Ko Chanyu

6. Februar 2025 @ 18:00 - 21:00

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In his nearly two-hour long documentary, director Ko Chanyu connects the long struggle of Zainichi Koreans for formal recognition of Korean schools in post-war Japan with the death of the Sri Lankan woman Wishma Sandamali during detention at the Nagoya Immigration Center in March 2021. In his film, Ko examines in detail how legal and...
Filmvorführung II: „Finding their Niche – Unheard Stories of Migrant Women“ – A Film by Dr. Megha Wadhwa

7. Februar 2025 @ 18:00 - 20:30

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The hour-long film documents the life of two Indian women migrants who moved to Japan more than a decade ago as trailing spouses. The women were excited to move to a foreign country and to be with their husbands, but they had no prior knowledge of Japan. Having witnessed at a distance the lives of...
Mai 2025
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer: „Rechtsruck in Japan? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der digitalen Diskursanalyse“

8. Mai 2025 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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In meinem Vortrag befasse ich mich der Frage eines Rechtsrucks in Japan aus politolinguistischer Perspektive. Dabei skizziere ich zunächst die Diskursfelder, in denen sich ein solcher Rechtsruck im Diskurs vollzieht. Das sind Nativismus und Nationalismus, Geschichtsrevisionismus, Anti-Feminismus und Misogynie und gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit, insbesondere antikoreanische und antichinesische Einstellungen. In einem nächsten Schritt skizziere ich anhand von...
Vortrag von Dr. Shohei Saito: „Connecting Siberia with the West: A.V. Baikalov’s Thoughts on the Cooperative Movement and the Northern Sea Route“

15. Mai 2025 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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The lecture focuses on the theory of cooperation and Siberia by A.V. Baikalov, a Siberian intellectual who became an emigrant after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It explains the characteristics of his plans for the Northern Sea Route in the early 1920s. Dr. Shohei Saito is Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City...
Vortrag von Prof. Aeneas Zi Wang, Ph.D.: „Defining skills in the context of nation-building and talent competition: An analysis of Chinese skilled immigration policies and implications for comparative migration studies“

22. Mai 2025 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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As countries in East Asia are increasingly entering the global talent competition, there is still a paucity of information on how the notion of skill is construed in these less-studied destinations. This talk examines the concept of skill that has been embedded in China’s immigration policies since the late 1970s. It illustrates how the understanding...
Juni 2025
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci: „‚Foreigners Are Committing Very Heinous Crimes‘: Framing of Deviance and Order in Japan’s Immigration Policy“

26. Juni 2025 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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In recent decades, following the terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, a securitization of immigration policy has been identified in many Western industrialized countries. In the case of Japan, however, issues of public and national security have played a central role in immigration policy since the early 1950s and have helped to...
Dezember 2025
Vortrag von Dr. Peter Matanle: „Researching Population Decline: Japan as Depopulation Vanguard Country for East Asia“

15. Dezember 2025 @ 16:15 - 17:45

Oettingenstraße 67, Room 161

In Asia, Japan was the first to encounter depopulation, beginning in 2008. Other East Asian countries, including China and South Korea are following suit. With similar geographies and developmental pathways, can we think of Japan as the forerunner for understanding the outcomes of depopulation in Northeast Asia – what I term a ‘Depopulation Vanguard Country’...
Mai 2026
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Aeneas Zi Wang: „Elective Liminality: Chinese Study Mothers and the Strategic Inhabitation of Temporariness in Southeast Asia“

Mai 5 @ 12:15 - 13:45

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Das Japan-Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2026 zu folgendem Gastvortrag herzlich ein: Prof. Dr. Aeneas Zi Wang (Nanjing University) 05. Mai 2026: 12:15 – 13:45 Uhr Liminality has long been treated in migration scholarship as a condition structurally inseparable from precarity, with the in-between state of temporariness understood...
Vortrag von Prof. Shinichi Aizawa: „What Kind of Class Society Is Japan? Rethinking Social Stratification through Capitals and Lifestyles“

Mai 7 @ 18:15 - 19:45

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Das Japan-Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2026 zu folgendem Gastvortrag herzlich ein: Prof. Shinichi Aizawa (Sophia University, Tokyo) 07. Mai 2026: 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr How can we better understand contemporary Japanese society through the re-analysis of existing large-scale survey data? While Japan has often been described as...

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