CANCELLATION NOTICE

We regret to inform you that the u:japan lecture by Gill Steel, scheduled for Thursday, June 25, has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.

| Abstract |

Two issues are essential to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown – keep fossil fuel in the ground and significantly reduce industrialised animal agriculture. My climate change research and youth activist project began in 2023 with a focus on meat consumption and engaged theory in the context of Japan. I argue that the question of the ‘animal’ is central to achieving sustainability. Carnivorism here presents an interconnected macro-micro level praxis that pivots around silencing its impact. As one of the wealthiest and most significant participants in globalised imports and world trade – in raw materials, meat and other food stuff – Japan’s biophysical metrics make it a major contributor to climate change. Climate discourses, however, far outstrip climate action, resulting in less attention being paid to the central contradiction of mainstream corporate and political culture that hail increasing GDP and consumer demand while also claiming support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As climate data focus primarily on effects rather than causes, narratives of inevitability dominate and in Japan little attention is paid to overconsumption as the major driver of climate change. Here the environmental problems of animal agriculture are framed as issues to be resolved by improved technology, avoiding critique of corporate and government drives that simultaneous increase meat production and consumption for capital growth.

This project investigates the sustainability contradictions of the growth paradigm that go largely unquestioned as particular discursive and embodied social practices normalise everyday consumption. Based on reviews of political discourses, policies, climate data, and fieldwork with youth groups in Tokyo and Okinawa, and ethnographic interviews with around 50 Japanese and 40 international youth interlocutors, as well as short surveys conducted after public lectures, this talk shows ‘carnivorism’ to be a multifaceted macro-micro level praxis underpinned by a ubiquitous ‘common sense’ of silencing the interdependent issues of global injustice, climate breakdown and the almost exclusive relations of exploitation involved in industrialised meat production. This talk explores how as interlocutors un-silence [for themselves and their peers] these strategically hidden consequences and begin to “not eat like everyone else,” they enter embodied social sensibilities of hitherto unquestioned Japanese identity structures that involve facing an embodied social discomfort when causing meiwaku, or trouble to others as social taboos surrounding meat are broken. The research illuminates how placing the ‘animal’ at the centre of critical pedagogy gives rise to a new cosmopolitan consciousness with implication for claims to global citizenship and new demands from interlocutors when they ‘awaken’ to how their everyday consumption creates the Capitalocene.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e01
Thursday 2026-03-19, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e01.

| Abstract |

Drawing on a collected archive of Punk Rock Issue Bollocks, the only magazine publication (雑誌) dedicated to punk music and culture in Japan in the present, this presentation will explore how the punk music-culture scene in Japan is imagined and represented through print media and in what ways this mediated form contributes to and delimits the function of such representations. Print materials and commentaries are frequent references within studies of musical scenes in Japan, but are not commonly implicated in supporting the creation of the genre which they address. On the other hand, zine and magazine commentaries written by and for community consumption in punk scenes are well-known attendant aspects of punk culture. As frequent productions associated with punk music, how do these materials circulate, how are they valued, and who do they target?

The presentation makes use of dissertation research on punk music and culture in Japan begun at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the vital role of print materials in identifying and arbitrating the outline of a musical scene. The example of Punk Rock Issue Bollocks offers a distinct processual viewpoint onto the work of bringing communities of practice to life as they develop in-person and when distanced from a physical site of enactment. Based on both collected materials and ethnographic observation of punk places and events, this presentation offers interventions in studies of music, Japan, and punk to suggest that ephemeral materials can play a role beyond archival reference in ethnographic exploration.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e02
Thursday 2026-03-26, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e02.

| Abstract |

History is an exceedingly complex and challenging endeavor, a critical writing process that must inevitably struggle with the (re)presentation of its subject matter. Video game studies, whether through writing the history of the medium or from the perspective of representations of the past in video games, continues to encounter this ongoing challenge. This presentation is not, however, directly concerned with these approaches but rather in the broader question of the relationship between history and video games, or in other words, how video games engage with the problem of history. Influenced by historians and theorists such as Harry Harootunian, David Harvey, and Henri Lefebvre, I consider how video games engage with the problem of history through the two concepts of everyday life and unevenness. I am invested in the potential of video games for experimenting with the production of history via these two key concepts through form and content dialectically.

I do so by examining the long-running video game series Legend of Heroes developed by Nihon Falcom. More specifically, I argue that the Legend of Heroes series’ formal structure and content-specific differences for each entry provide a singularly fruitful terrain to engage with the problem of history as a critical production and writing process defined by everyday storytelling and uneven world-building. In the first section, I establish the problem of history as a practice that must critically engage with the notions of time and space. The next two sections examine the everyday storytelling and uneven world-building of Legend of Heroes respectively.

| Speaker Bio |

Alexandre Paquet is a scholar of Japanese popular culture with an emphasis on videogames, anime and manga whose research is rooted at the intersection of transnational media studies and critical cultural theory. The core of his work is informed by a utopian framework of social change, engages in an exploration into the depths of popular culture as a productive playground for such change, and advances speculations on new ways of being together. He has published articles on a variety of topics from popular culture in Mechademia, Video Game Art Reader, and more. Alexandre is also the French representative for the Canadian Game Studies Association.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e03
Thursday 2026-04-16, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e03.

| Abstract |

What counts as a “school attendance problem”? Exploring how Japan and other countries define, measure, and respond to student absence

School attendance problems (SAPs) are a global phenomenon, yet they are conceptualised and addressed in markedly different ways across national contexts. In Japan, long-term school absence (futōkō) has received attention for decades, with official statistics on students absent for 30 days or more dating back to the 1950s. Research and public debate remain extensive and ongoing. In contrast, SAPs were only relatively recently highlighted as a “hidden problem” in Sweden, underscoring the need for international comparative perspectives.

Our study “School Attendance Problems in International Comparison” examined national, organisational, and individual dimensions of SAPs among secondary school students in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. It applied a mixed-methods design, combining analyses of national statistics and large-scale datasets with qualitative case studies at organisational and individual levels.

Focusing on Japan within this comparative framework, the presentation explores how SAPs are defined, measured, and interpreted. Drawing on comparative statistics and a reanalysis of PISA data, it problematises the categories used to capture school absence. Case studies from Sweden and Germany illustrate different approaches to addressing SAPs and forms of collaboration among school actors. Across all countries, the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have left lasting traces in students’ motivation to attend school in person. Interviews with students who have recently returned to school add further perspectives.

The presentation discusses recent policy developments in Japan, particularly within MEXT, concerning students who do not fit within mainstream schooling. It will also invite discussion on how comparative research on Japan can be designed to both deepen understanding of Japanese contexts and generate insights into researchers’ own societies.

| Speaker Bio |

Dr. Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg is Associate Professor in International and Comparative Education at Stockholm University. She has previously worked as a research associate at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo and has taught at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Linköping University in Sweden. Her research focuses on youth, comparative education, and higher education, with particular emphasis on gender and education. She has extensive experience with both qualitative and quantitative methods in international research contexts. Among her recognitions, she received the Tamaki Prize at Vienna University for her work on youth suicide in Japan and Germany. Most recently, she led the project International Comparative Perspectives on School Attendance Problems, funded by the Swedish Research Council. This collaborative project involved partners at the University of Tokyo, Leipzig University, and the University of Birmingham, and reflects her ongoing engagement in research on education in Japan from a comparative perspective.

More information about the project can be found here:
https://www.su.se/english/research/research-catalogue/research-projects/f/school-attendance-problems-in-an-international-comparative-perspective

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e04
Thursday 2026-04-23, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e04.

| Abstract |

Japan’s immigration policy has undergone a rapid transformation since the late 2010s. Facing severe labor shortages driven by demographic decline, the government introduced the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) visa in 2019, initiating a series of reforms completed in 2024 that expanded pathways for blue-collar migrants and introduced a more merit-based system for settlement and advancement. However, following the 2025 Upper House election, immigration became highly politicized as far-right actors framed it as a “foreigner problem,” prompting the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to adopt more restrictive rhetoric.

How have such changes occurred over a relatively short period? This study examines the politicization of immigration by focusing on shifts within the policy mainstream. While the 2018 revision of the Immigration Law was driven by clientelistic ties between the business community and the LDP, it can also be interpreted as a leftward shift in immigration policy. This shift, however, generated a backlash: from 2023 onward, a growing faction within the LDP began to prioritize law and order over rights. Although far-right actors such as Sanseito contributed to the politicization of immigration, the ruling LDP had already undergone a process of internal radicalization, as its right-wing faction became increasingly mainstream.

| Speaker Bio |

Naoto Higuchi is Professor of sociology at Waseda University, Japan. His underlying research interest lies in xenophobia and migration politics. Among his works in English are Japan’s Ultra-Right (Trans Pacific Press, 2016) and The Digital Rise of the Far Right in Japan (Manchester University Press, forthcoming in 2026). His recent publication includes “Far Right Movements in Asia: The Case of Japan” (The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements of the Far Right, Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2026), “Immigration and Nationalism in Japan,” (Migration and Nationalism, Edward Elgar, 2024). “What Is New about Japan’s New Migration Policy?” Social Science Japan Journal, 28(1), 2025.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e05
Thursday 2026-04-30, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e05.

| Abstract |

This presentation brings together two readings of contemporary Japanese speculative fiction to examine how reproductive dystopias negotiate the tension between biopolitical control and practices of resistance. Situated within the broader critical framework of twenty-first-century dystopian studies, and particularly within the tradition of critical dystopias that combine systemic critique with residual utopian possibility, both texts are read as interventions in ongoing debates around gendered governance, bodily autonomy, and the limits of liberal agency.

The first part focuses on Murata Sayaka’s Shōmetsu sekai (Vanishing World, 2015), a speculative uchronia in which artificial reproduction has rendered sex obsolete, and the heteronormative family structure has been supplanted by the genderless, computer-regulated Eden System. Drawing on Foucauldian frameworks of discipline, biopolitics, and resistance, I argue that the novel’s female protagonist enacts a form of sacrificial, instinctual defiance against a society that treats bodies as databases. Rather than a straightforwardly dystopian text, Vanishing World is reframed here as a reproductive ustopia, a hybrid form in which undisciplined bodies resist power.

The second part turns to Li Kotomi’s Sei o iwau (Celebration of Life, 2021), a near-future narrative governed by a Consensual Birth System that relocates reproductive agency from women to juridically recognized fetuses. By drawing on Guattari’s ecosophy, I show how the novel reconfigures rather than dismantles biopolitical hierarchies, encoding environmental precarity, parental identity, and heteronormative legibility into probabilistic metrics of anticipated happiness. Yet Li’s text resists nihilism: through the protagonist’s ethical acceptance of her fetus’s refusal to be born, Celebration of Life articulates a counter-ethic of care grounded in relationality, non-proprietary kinship, and a reimagining of life as process rather than possession.

Read together, these two novels illuminate a shared preoccupation in contemporary Japanese speculative fiction: the entanglement of reproductive politics, algorithmic or bureaucratic surveillance, and the stubborn persistence of resistance – bodily, instinctual, or ethical – within systems that seek to foreclose it.

| Speaker Bio |

Anna Specchiois an Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Torino, where she coordinates the MA Programme in Translation Studies. She is also a member of the board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies (CIRSDe) of the same University and of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA). Her research focuses on contemporary Japanese women’s writing, with particular attention to representations of women, feminism, posthuman, dystopia and utopia. She edited 『現代女性作家読本㉑ 村田沙耶香』(2024) and Nel nome della luna. Origini, Rivoluzioni ed eredità di Sailor Moon (2025). As a translator of Japanese literature into Italian, she has worked on authors including Sakuraba Kazuki, Hayashi Mariko, Matsuura Rieko, Kashimada Maki, Iwaki Kei, Ono Miyuki, Yagi Emi, Li Kotomi, and Murata Sayaka.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e06
Thursday 2026-05-07, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e06.

| Abstract |

Longevity is variously conceived as an ideal and a social good, but also as a considerable social problem. As people live longer lives, questions of work, productivity, and dependence increasingly come to structure debates about ageing. In the context of Japan, which has often been described as a ‘super‑aged society’, these questions are particularly acute; increasing numbers of people participate both in the voluntary sector and, more recently, in the workforce, often well beyond the conventional age of retirement. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 2019 and 2025 in the Kansai region of Japan, including interviews with people aged 65 and over, observations at senior employment fairs, job centres, and local organisations, I explore some of the motivations for working that older people shared with me, both remunerated and unremunerated.

On the one hand, work in its various forms may serve as a source of meaning in later years and offer ways to remain socially engaged. For some, work provides sociality, routine, and a sense of contribution at a time when other roles may be receding. At the same time, work is a necessity for many, shaped by insufficient pensions, insecure livelihoods, and limited opportunities to withdraw from paid labour. Drawing on the work of Jennifer Johnson Hanks (2002), I reconsider the role of ‘retirement’ in the framing of older age as a life stage in Japan, treating retirement not as a stable analytical category but as an increasingly uneven and contested transition. While retirement has long structured expectations about later life, it is gradually becoming a luxury available to ever smaller numbers of people, rendering older age more heterogeneous and less predictable. Attending to everyday experiences of work and the affective relations to time and future they engender, the paper complicates normative ideals of ‘active’ or ‘successful’ ageing. Rather than emphasizing choice or motivation alone, it highlights endurance, ambivalence, and perseverance as central features of working longer lives.

| Speaker Bio |

Iza Kavedžija is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 2021 she has held posts at the University of Exeter and University of Oxford. She has written on topics including care, wellbeing and creativity. In recent years, Iza has been working on multimodal methods in anthropology and is currently a PI on a British Academy Talent Development Award, The Ethnographic Portfolio: Arts-based methods for anthropology. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Anthropology and Aging and has recently co-founded the research network Precarious Aging: Critical Concepts, funded by CRASSH. Her book publications include Meaning in Life: Tales from Aging Japan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019); Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life (with Harry Walker, University of Chicago Press, 2016); and The Process of Wellbeing: Conviviality, Care, Creativity (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e07
Thursday 2026-05-21, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e07.

| Abstract |

Japan’s Community School (CS) system was established through the 2004 amendment to the Local Educational Administration Act (地教行法), with a revision in 2017 that accelerated expansion to over 20,000 schools nationwide by 2024. How has this CS initiative been appropriated as a survival strategy by local communities struggling demographically? What is the role and lived experience of the key actor in this scheme, the designated coordinator and facilitator of ‘community-school collaboration activities’? These two questions underpin this paper, a preliminary report on an ongoing ethnographic research project in a community field site in a rural area of Kansai.

In 2018, the PTA in a local community, Yamakage-sato (YKS, pop. ~2,600), spearheaded a grassroots mobilisation to successfully secure CS designation for the local school, YKS Primary School. The district is made up of both a traditional mountain village and a planned hilltop development facing demographic pressures typical in rural Japan. The threat of ‘consolidation review’ (i.e., the closing of the school) became a platform for civic action, a defensive mechanism that subverted the original Ministry (MEXT) intention of CS as a site for ‘educational improvement’.

In 2019, I began coordinating with local residents and the former principal of YKS Primary School to develop a programme of ‘community engagement’ with undergraduate students from a university in the neighbouring city. This has led to a longitudinal relationship with YKS Primary School and in particular, since the beginning of more formal ethnographic fieldwork last year, my key interlocutor, the ‘coordinator’, Yamada-san. From this embedded positionality, what is emerging is that two policy tropes — kyōdō (協働, collaboration) and chiiki (地域, community) — function as sites of contestation where ‘official meanings’ are reworked by local actors, who in turn introduce a third narrative: sonzoku (存続, survival). As coordinator, Yamada-san’s multifaceted, diverse, and undercompensated role in the CS scheme is an affective labour, a gendered care work that, as our conversations deepen and my observations sharpen, is beginning to shed light on the multivocality of these keywords. The case of YKS shows how the purpose of a CS can be reframed from ‘educational reform’ to ‘community survival’.

| Speaker Bio |

Gregory S. Poole is currently a professor of social anthropology at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Kyoto. Greg’s area of research focuses mostly on topics within the anthropology of education and his books include four co-edited volumes, Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-edited with Ioannis Gaitanidis, 2024, Amsterdam University/Japan Documents); Foreign Language Education in Japan: Exploring Qualitative Approaches (co-edited with Sachiko Horiguchi and Yuki Imoto, 2015, Springer), Reframing Diversity in the Anthropology of Japan (co-edited with John Ertl, John Mock, and John McCreery, 2015, Kanazawa University), and Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (co-edited with Ya-chen Chen, 2009, Brill), as well as a monograph, The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty (2010, Brill).

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e08
Thursday 2026-05-28, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

| Place | 

LIVE @ Campus of the University of Vienna
Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies
Seminarraum JAP 1, 2K-EG-21, Ground floor to the left
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus), 1090 Vienna, Austria

| Platform & Link |

https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65583867108?pwd=rydxHuWoGcGIV6FFJdrLghDwpucRHd.1
Meeting-ID: 655 8386 7108 |  Passcode: 794196
This lecture will not be recorded.

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e08.

| Abstract |

Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com­pared to Western metropolises like New York or Berlin, however, few outsiders understand Tokyo’s inner workings. For cities around the globe mired in crisis and seeking new models for the future, Tokyo’s success at balancing growth and local community poses a challenge: if we learn why Tokyo succeeds, can we use that knowledge to improve our cities at home?

Joe McReynolds, the co-author of Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, answers this question in the affirmative by delving into Tokyo’s most distinctive urban spaces, from iconic neon nightlife to tranquil neighborhood backstreets. Tokyo at its best offers a new vision for a human-scale urban ecosystem, where ordinary residents shape their own envi­ronment in ways large and small, and communities take on a life of their own beyond government master planning and corporate profit-seeking. As a Tokyoite himself, he uncovers how key features of Tokyo’s cityscape such as intimate yokochō alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings and dense low-rise neighborhoods together enable this ‘emergent’ urban­ism, allowing the city to organize itself from the bottom up.

Above all, this talk will give a clear account of the web of public policies that makes Tokyo's emergent urbanism possible, from transit to zoning to housing. By demystifying the social and spatial conditions that power Tokyo, we can extract practical, trans-cultural lessons for the rest of the world. We can bring Tokyo-style intimacy, adaptability, and spontaneity to our cities at home -- as long as we learn to ask the right questions about how our cities are built and governed.

| Speaker Bio |

Joe McReynolds is a researcher at Keio University's Almazan Architecture and Urban Studies Laboratory in Japan, where he studies Tokyo's approach to urban policy and how Tokyo's cityscape and its subcultures interact. He is the co-author and research editor of the bestselling book Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, shortlisted for Urbanist Book of the Year, as well as the forthcoming book The Railway Empires of Tokyo. He splits his time between Tokyo and Washington DC, where he works as a national security researcher.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e09
Thursday 2026-06-11, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e09.

| Abstract |

In my reading of a 2024 novel titled In the Nation Blessed by the Spiritual Power of Language (Kotodama no sakiwau kuni de), I reflect upon Taiwanese lesbian author Li Kotomi’s depiction of a year of calamity for a fictionalized version of herself named L, who goes through the trauma of being outed as transgender after winning a prestigious literary prize in Japan. I analyze Li’s narrative strategies involving the depiction of xenophobic and transphobic hate speech from social media, digressive passages teaching readers about LGBT+ histories and transgender issues, and her reclaiming of Shinto beliefs and traditions.

As MeToo movements continue to call for urgency in dealing with gender-based violence around the waorld, the stories of Li and her protagonist offer a necessary critique of mainstream narratives concerning what constitutes gender-based and/or sexual violence. Feminist narratives of MeToo often center violence experienced by cisgender, heterosexual women, and trans-exclusionary radical feminists refer precisely to the vulnerability of such women as their reason for attacking transgender women. It is crucial to resist such conceptions of vulnerability and violence and adamantly reject the targeting of transgender and queer “others.”

In a time of global transphobia, I argue for the need to hear stories such as Li’s, which take place in contexts of Japan and Taiwan on the periphery of Anglophone discourses. What does it mean as a literary studies scholar to witness transphobia and gender-based violence in these times? What might transnational, translingual literary criticism do to address such narratives in solidarity? I consider what it means for marginalized academics to try to engage directly with lived experiences of suffering and trauma in environments with freedom of speech under constant threat.

| Speaker Bio |

Grace En-Yi Ting (she/they) is an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Hong Kong specializing in queer feminist approaches to Japanese studies, particularly women writers and girls’ culture. Her recent work engages with frameworks of Global Asias by reorienting Japanese literature through transnational flows of queer/feminist texts and politics circulating between Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Asian America. In addition, they have written book reviews for Asymptote, World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and The Japan Times. As a literary translator, in 2026, she was selected to work on a hybrid translation from Japanese/Chinese to English under “Literature from Taiwan” for the ALTA Emerging Translator program. As a crip non-binary queer feminist, they believe in the importance of creativity, labor, and solidarity extending beyond the academy and its norms.

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s12e10
Thursday 2026-06-18, 18:00~19:30 (CET, UTC +1h)

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| Platform & Link |

| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s12/#e10.

Die u:japan lectures gehen in die zwölfte Saison!

Dank des unermüdlichen Engagements unserer Mitarbeiter*innen, der tatkräftigen Unterstützung unserer Sponsoren und ganz besonders der Bereitschaft der international gefragten Vortragenden nach Wien zu kommen, starten wir ab dem 19. März 2026 in eine neue Saison der u:japan lectures.

Auch ein erster Programmüberblick darf hier schon präsentiert werden:

Termine und Vortragenden | Season 12 | Spring 2026

ID              Date*               Mode**          Guest / Lecturer

s12e01     2026-03-19     hybrid (en)     Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
s12e02     2026-03-26     hybrid (en)     Robert Dahlberg-Sears
s12e03     2026-04-16     hybrid (en)     Alexandre Paquet
s12e04     2026-04-23     hybrid (en)     Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg
s12e05     2026-04-30     hybrid (en)     Higuchi Naoto
s12e06     2026-05-07     hybrid (en)     Anna Specchio
s12e07     2026-05-21     hybrid (en)     Iza Kavedžija
s12e08     2026-05-28     hybrid (en)     Greg Poole
s12e09     2026-06-11     hybrid (en)     Joe McReynolds
s12e10     2026-06-18     hybrid (en)     Grace En-Yi Ting
s12e11     2026-06-25     onsite (en)     Gill Steel

*Date & Time: Thursdays from 18:00 to 19:30, LL = Lunch Lectures are usally from 12:00 to 13:30
**Mode & Language:
onsite = Seminarraum 1 @ Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (University of Veinna Campus, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4, 1090 Vienna)
online = via Zoom (no registration necessary)
hybrid = onsite and live stream via Zoom
en = English, jp = Japanese, de =German
Records: Only lecture conducted in online or hybrid mode will be recorded and available as view on demand lectures in the recorded lectures section.