26/08/2026 Sparking Global Japanese Studies: Bodies, Limits, and Linguistic Boundaries

Kategoria: Konferencje

Nichibunken-AMU-UW-EAJS Pre-Symposium

13.30 Opening remarks

Beata Bochorodycz (AMU) & Manami Yasui (Nichibunken)

13.40-14.20 Keynote lecture (Aula)

• Shoji Yamada (Nichibunken), “From Digitization to the Eureka Moment”

Moderator: Mai Kataoka (Nichibunken)

14.40-16.40 Panel Sessions

I. Bodies, Health, Politics  (Room 801)

Coordinators: Manami Yasui (Nichibunken) & Ken Daimaru (Université Paris Cité)

Session Overview: Manami Yasui

• Ken Daimaru “Social Studies of Health and Diseases in Contemporary Japan: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives seen from France”
• Angelika Koch (Leiden University) “Picture-Book Medicine: Commercial Medicines and Advertising in Late Edo Popular Fiction”
• Kathryn Tanaka (University of Hyogo) “Their Place in Japan: Handwritten Magazines from the National Sanatorium for Hansen’s Disease, Oshima Seishō-en 1944-1948”

Comment: Matthias Hayek (École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL)
Moderator: Minhyeok Kwon (Nichibunken)

II. Limits of Japanese Democracy (Room 802)

Coordinators: Ayako Kusunoki (Nichibunken) & Katarzyna Starecka (University of Warsaw)

Session Overview: Ayako Kusunoki

• Roundtable

Participants: Kaoru Iokibe (University of Tokyo), Alexander Bukh (Waseda University), Yasuko Miyazaki (Hiroshima Shudo University)

Moderator: Yufei Zhou (Nichibunken)

III. Categorizing Japonic Linguistics (Room 803)

Coordinators: Aleksandra Jarosz (AMU) & Zahra Moharramipour (Nichibunken)

Session Overview: Aleksandra Jarosz

• Arkadiusz Jabłoński (AMU) “Categorization (and its Lack) in Basic Terms of Japanese Linguistics”
• Akiko Yokoyama (NINJAL) “Challenges of Local Diversity in Ryukyuan Language Revitalization”
• Hanna Jaśkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń) “Categorizing Social Perceptions of Japanese Dialects in Fiction”

Discussion and Q&A

17.00-17.30  General discussion (Aula)
Coordinators: Manami Yasui & Ayako Kusunoki (Nichibunken)

• Summaries of the three panels
• General discussion
• Research topics for the next EAJS conference

Location: Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznań

Organizers: Nichibunken, Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Warsaw, and the Consortium for Global Japanese Studies, with the support of EAJS