Complete Program

Program for Summer Term 2017

Workshop

Calls for Protecting the Weak in East Asia:
Empirical Findings and New Theoretical Insights

June, 2, 2017; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, room SH 5.104

For registration, please send an email to: muenscher@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

     

8:30 - 9:15 am: Registration and Welcome
Welcome by Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

9:30 - 11:00 am:
Panel 1 “Human-Animal Studies”;
Chair Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

  • Prof. Dr. Mieke Roscher (University of Kassel)
    Conceptualizing Animal Actors – Multi-species Entanglements and Relational Agency
  • Dr. Yoriko Otomo (University of London, SOAS)
    The Role of Law in Structuring Human-Animal Relations
  • Alisha Gao/ Matthias Schumann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
    Animals and the Intricacies of Modernization: The Emergence of Animal Protection Movements in Chinese Past and Present

11:00 - 11:30 am: Coffee Break

11:30 am - 1:00 pm:
Panel 2 “Cultural Heritage in Transition”
Chair Prof. Dr. Iwo Amelung (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

  • Dr. Oleg Benesch (University of York)
    Masculinity, Regionalism, and Recovery in Japan’s Modern Castles
  • Christina Maags (Oxford University)
    Protecting the Weak through Narratives of Threat: The Case of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
  • Dr. Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Promoting Cultural Heritage Protection from East to West: A Comparison of Cultural Governance Systems

1:00 - 2:30 pm: Lunch Break
(set meal at Sturm & Drang Restaurant only for invited guests)

2:30 - 4:00 pm:
Panel 3 “Labor Market and Employee Well-Being”
Chair Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

  • Dr. Nora Kottmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf)
    Work-Life-Balance in Times of Precarization – the Case of Japan
  • Dr. Florence Lévy (EHESS Paris, CECMC)
    Counter Framings of Migration Experiences by Northern Chinese Migrants in France
  • Dr. Markus Heckel (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
    Who does not know their labor contract term? Implications for working conditions: Evidence from Japanese and Spanish micro data

4:00 - 4:30 pm: Coffee Break

4:30 - 5:00 pm: Concluding Remarks and Discussion



For registration, please send an email to: muenscher@soz.uni-frankfurt.de



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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Wednesday Film and Lecture Series + Conferences and Events


International Conferene

Protecting the Weak - Concepts and East Asian Evidence

October 7 - October 8, 2016, Lingnan University Hong Kong

See conference website of Lingnan University Hong Kong for further information:

http://www.ln.edu.hk/psec/activities_conferenceoct2016.php

See conference report in the online magazine of Goethe University:

http://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/veranstaltungen/nachbericht-protecting-the-weak-in-hongkong/

See conference website of Goethe University (photo gallery):

International Conference Protecting the Weak - Concepts and East Asian Evidence





Wednesday Film and Lecture Series (Winter Term 2016/2017)


Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 6:00 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.107
Wednesday Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Qingbo Zhang, Zhongnan (Southcentral) University (visiting scholar within the project)

"Das Petitionssystem in der Volksrepublik China – eine rechtliche und soziologische Analyse"

Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 6:00 pm, Campus Westend, PEG 1. G 161
Wednesday Lecture
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knöbl, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung:

"‘Multiple Modernities' und die Herausforderungen der Globalgeschichtsschreibung"

Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6:00 pm, Campus Westend, tbc SH 2.107
Wednesday Lecture
Moe Honjo, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (visiting scholar within the project)

Keys to Understanding Animal Law in Japan: An Analysis of the Most Protected and the Least Protected Animals

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 6:00 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.107
Wednesday Film
Film Screenings re. Animal Protection in China

"What’s for Dinner" and "What's For Dinner: Six Years On?"
followed by a discussion with our project team member Alisha Faith Carpenter

Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm, Campus Westend, RuW 4.201
Applied Microeconomics and Organizations Seminar / Wednesday Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ir. J. C. (Jan) van Ours, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

"The Wage-Penalty of Dialect-Speaking"

Wednesday, December 15, 2016, 4:00 - 6.00 pm, University of Zurich, Room RAA E-29, Rämistr. 59, 8001 Zurich
In collaboration with the Institute of Asian and Oriantal Studies - Japanese Studies of the University of Zurich
Moe Honjo, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (visiting scholar within the project)
"Keys to Understanding Animal Law in Japan: An Analysis of the Most Protected and the Least Protected Animals"



Session “Protecting the Weak: Social Justice and Well-Being in China and Japan”,
SASE 28th Annual Conference, June 24-26, 2016 - University of California, Berkeley


Dr. Markus Heckel organized together with Dr. Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) a session on “Protecting the Weak: Social Justice and Well-Being in China and Japan” in the Network Q on “Asian Capitalism” organized by Tobias ten Brink, Sebastien Lechevalier, Boy Lüthje, and Cornelia Storz. “Protecting the Weak: Entangled processes of framing, mobilization and institutionalization in East Asia”, is a research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within its initiative "Key issues for Academia and Society". The session linked the topic of wellbeing with social justice. The concept of social justice is the object of rich and complex intellectual discourses about right and duties, which are directly put into question when confronted with concrete example of discrimination. Closely related to social justice, wellbeing encompasses a variety of concerns and challenges regarding the improvement of the conditions of human as well as non-human life. Both themes have become highly relevant in today’s political, social, and economic environments, yet remain mainly overlooked in the study of East Asian countries. Project members presenting in this session include Stefan Hüppe-Moon, Na Zou, Markus Heckel and Ioan Trifu.


See also: https://sase.confex.com/sase/2016am/webprogram/Session2125.html



Wednesday Film and Lecture Series (Summer Term 2016)


Outreach Event "Protecting the Weak in today's China"

Frankfurt, May 11 – 15, 2016
organized by the project team members Matthias Schumann and Elisa Hörhager

Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 7 pm, Austellungshalle 1 A, Schulstraße 1A, 60594 Frankfurt am Main
Photo Exhibition + Opening Ceremony
Migrant Workers in China: Mingong - The Search for Hapiness
Opening of Photo exhibition by photographer Wolfgang Müller and our project coordinator Matthias Schumann

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - Sunday, May 17, 2016, Austellungshalle 1 A
Photo Exhibition
Migrant Workers in China: Mingong- The Search for Happiness
Photo exhibition by photographer Wolfgang Müller

Thursday, May 12, 2016,  7 pm, Orfeos Erben Cinema, Hamburger Allee 45, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
Film Screening + Discussion with Director
Disaster Victims in China: One day in May
7 pm reception with film director Ma Zhandong
8 pm film screening: One Day in May (Earthquake in Sichuan 2008)
Afterwards discussion with film director Ma Zhandong and project team member Elisa Hörhager

Sunday, May, 15, 2016, 6 pm, Ausstellungshalle 1A, Schulstraße 1A, 60594 Frankfurt am Main
Photo Exhibition + Talk + Discussion
Migrant Workers in China: Mingong- The Search for Hapiness
Talk and panel discussion with the photographer Wolfgang Müller and our project team member Na Zou

In the week from May 9 to May 15 the project “Protecting the Weak” organized a series of events about migrant workers and disaster victims in contemporary China to engage with the interested Frankfurt public.

Together with photographer Wolfgang Müller we staged the photo exhibition “Mingong. Auf der Suche nach dem Glück“ about migrant workers in China at the AusstellungsHalle in Sachsenhausen. The exhibition was based on the photos Wolfgang Müller took during several trips to China where he accompanied migrant workers in daily life and on travels back to their home provinces. His photos were published in 2012 in the form of a photo book. The exhibition was accompanied by an opening event and a panel discussion with Wolfgang Müller. At the opening, he gave insights into his approach and shared his experiences with the migrant workers. During the discussion, Wolfgang Müller and our project team members Ms. Na Zou discussed the social situation of migrant workers in contemporary China, the restrictions they face in urban centers, but also the recent changes in political discourse and social policy. The discussion was chaired by the scientific coordinator of our project, Matthias Schumann. The exhibition and the events were visited by many Frankfurt citizens, including a class of Chinese language students from the Schiller-Gymnasium.

 On May 12, we had the chance to commemorate one of the most devastating earthquakes in modern history which happened in Sichuan, China, exactly the same day eight years ago. This was done through the rare screening of Chinese film director Zhandong MA’s award-winning documentary film “One Day in May” (Chinese with German subtitles) in the arthouse Cinema “Orfeos Erben” in Bockenheim. The film screening and the reception which preceded it was attended by more than 50 people. The varied audience of Frankfurt residents originating from China, Germany and beyond was visibly moved by the film and engaged in a lively discussion afterwards with the director and project team member Elisa Hörhager. The successes of this event led to a further screening of another film by Zhandong MA, “A’Pei”, at Goethe University during the following week. 

Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.105
Wednesday Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Gruber,
Kyoto University, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research
"Protecting Asia's Cultural Artefacts. The Fight against Looting, Smuggling and Illicit Art Trade"

Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.105
Wednesday Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Zhao Zhiyong
, Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China
"Nanfeiyan's Forum Theatre Transformation. A Case Study on Theatre Practices of the Migrant Workers' Community in China."

Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.105
Wednesday Lecture
Prof. Tsutomu (Tom) Nakano,
Professor of Corporate Strategy, International Management, and Organization, Aoyama Business School, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
"Advantages of Small Firms in the Age of Digital Economy and Standardization: Evidence from the Global High-End Audio Market and the “Ethical Fashion” in Japan"

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.104
Wednesday Lecture
Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz, Goethe University, Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
"Heritage Making, European Standards, and Gastronationalism"

Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Campus Westend, SH 2.105
Wednesday Lecture
Prof. em. Dr. Gunther Teubner
, Goethe University, Professor for Private Law and Sociolgy of Law
"Legal Irritants: How Unifying Law Ends up in New Divergences"



Workshop „Fukushima Five Years on - Legal Fallout in Japan, Germany and the UK“      
Darwin College, Cambridge, March 4 – 5, 2016         

Convened by project collaborator Julius Weitzdörfer (JRF, Faculty of Law, Cambridge); advised by Prof Moritz Bälz (Japanese Law and Culture, Interdisciplinary Center of East Asian Studies, Frankfurt) and Ludo Veuchelen (Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics; former Chairman, WG Safety and Regulation, International Nuclear Law Association)    

The 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Accident constitutes a technological accident, a humanitarian disaster, and the largest civil liability case in legal history. In light of a recent nuclear renaissance, ambitious energy transitions, and aiming to identify concrete policy recommendations regarding the prevention, mitigation, and compensation of future accidents, this international workshop critically addresses the legal challenges and necessary policy lessons from Fukushima. It will be the first to cover all three legal dimensions of the disaster – in public, private, and criminal law – and will comprise contributions by international experts pioneering their fields, including the regulation of risk, crisis management, nuclear safety, disaster resilience, environmental and energy law, and dispute resolution for victims. Further contributions will treat recent developments in Japan, such as the first judgments awarding compensation for the death of evacuees by suicide and the criminal trial against TEPCO executives for negligent manslaughter.        

See http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2015/11/expert-workshop-fukushima-five-years-legal-fallout-japan-lessons-eu

A detailed conference report has been published in the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law:
R. Effinowicz, Fukushima Five Years On – Legal Fallout in Japan, Lessons for the EU, in: ZJapanR / J.Japan.L. 42 (2016) 299–30, see http://www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zjapanr/article/view/1112.



Wednesday Film and Lecture Series (Winter Term 2015/16)


Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Prof.  Dr. Marina Svensson, Lund University:
"Nanluoguxiang: Imagined Heritage and Urban Communities"


 Photo Exhibition “Living Here in Fukushima – 3.11 and after – “

Goethe University Frankfurt, February, 10 – March 27, 2016

organized in collaboration with visiting scholar Saori Kawazoe,the project team and the Disaster Archive of the Iwaki Meisei University

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 5 pm, PEG foyer (main hall PEG), Campus Westend
Opening Ceremony of Exhibition with our guest researcher,
Saori Kawazoe, Waseda University, Tokyo
Living Here in Fukushima ― 3.11 and after ―

Fukushima has faced a triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and nuclear radiation. In an exhibition housed at the PEG-building on Westend Campus of Goethe University Frankfurt from February 10th – March 27th, 2016 our visiting scholar Saori Kawazoe presented photos taken in Fukushima either after the disaster or over the following years. The opening of the exhibition was attended by many interested visitors with the Frankfurter Rundschau reporting as well.

Wednesday, January, 27, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomoyuki Shimanuki, Hitotsubashi University:
"Are Temporary Agency Jobs Bad Employment Contracts or Bad Employment Relationships? Evidence from Japan"

Monday, January 25, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, Sh 1.107 (seminar house tbc), Campus Westend
Monday Lecture
Saori Kawazoe, Waseda University
"Nuclear Refugees after Fukushima – Social Conflict and Challenges"

Friday, January 22 2016, 6 - 8 pm, SH 0.106 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Bai Tongdong, Dongfang Chair Professor at the School of Philosophy at Fudan University in China:
"The Price of Serving Meat – On Confucius’ and Mencius’ Views of Human and Animal Rights"

Wednesday, January 20 2016, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Christina Maags:
"The Men Behind the Movie Billboards" (2013) - cinema paintings as cultural heritage

Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our external project collaborator Julius Weitzdörfer:
"How are you, Gongliao?" (2004) - protests against Japanese nuclear power plant construction in Taiwan

Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Dr. Sabine Lennkh, Legislative Advisor World Animal Net:
"Model Animal Welfare Act: Objectives, Best Practice Guidance, and Ambitions for Global Advancements in Animal Welfare Legislation"

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Stefan Hüppe-Moon:
"Yellow Box" (2006) – drug-addicted male employees and overworked “betel-nut-beauties” vendors in Taiwan

Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Dr. Ioan Trifu:
"Heat Sun" (2008) – WWII memory in Taiwan/Japan

Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Ass. Prof. Dr. Kristian Cedervall Lauta, University of Copenhagen:

“Disaster Law”

Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Elisa Hörhager:
"Formosa Dream, disrupted" (2007) disaster victims after the 1999 Taiwan earthquake

Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Prof. Dr. Christoph Brumann, Head of Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology / Honorary Professor Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg:
“Aspects of a Love Affair: Japan and UNESCO World Heritage”

Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 6 - 8 pm, SH 1.105 (seminar house), Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Na Zou:
“Taivalu" (2010) – typhoons and rising sea levels in Taiwan/Tuvalu”



16. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag 2015,            
LMU Munich, August 26 – 28, 2015

 

Organized by Moritz Bälz, the Law section of the 16. Deutscher Japanologentag, which took place at the LMU in Munich from 26 to 28 August 2015, taking inspiration from the IZO research project “Protecting the Weak” met to discuss the topic “Law as enforcement of individual rights in Japan: Discourses and Applications”. The presentations focused on the question whether law in Japan is conceived and realized as enforcement of individual rights in a similar way as in continental-European or Common law jurisdictions. Following an introductory lecture “Subjektive Rechte in Japan. Politische Einforderung, gesetzgeberische Gewährung, prozessuale Durchsetzung. Ein Problemaufriss” by the convener, presenters from Germany and Japan shed light on this topic from the perspectives of various fields of law. Two members of the project team also had the opportunity to present there: Kazushige Doi: „Subjektive Rechte auch für Tiere? Zur Entwicklung des Tierschutzes in Japan“ and Julius F.W. Weitzdörfer: „Aggressive Rechtsdurchsetzung in Japan. Die illegale Eintreibung und legale Rückforderung wucherischer Darlehenszinsen“. The contributions will be published in 2017.




Wednesday Film and Lecture Series (Summer Term 2015)


Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 6 pm, PEG 1.G 165, Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Markus Heckel
Japan’s Disposable Workers

Saturday, June 13, 2015, 4 - 6 pm c. t., RuW 4.201, Campus Westend
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Björn Alpermann, University of Würzburg
China's Urban Poor: Political and Popular Discourses on the dibaohu

Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 6 pm, PEG 1.G 165, Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Dr. Pierre Fuller, The University of Manchester
Humanitarian Purges: Revolutionary Memory and Northwest China's Great Gansu Earthquake of 1920


Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 4.30 pm, Naxoshalle, Waldschmidtstraße 19, Frankfurt
Wednesday Film in cooperation with Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival
Documentary and Discussion with film director Hitomi Kamanaka and Julius Weitzdörfer from our project team
Little Voices from Fukushima

On June 6, 2015, the documentary “Little Voices from Fukushima (2015)” was shown in cooperation with the well-known Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival in Frankfurt. Furthermore, we had the chance to invite film director Hitomi Kamanaka to discuss aspects of the film with the project team member Julius Weitzdörfer. The documentary deals with the nuclear disasters in Fukushima and Chernobyl. While visiting the affected regions in Japan and Belarus, film director Hitomi Kamanaka analyzes the parallels between the disaster of Fukushima and Chernobyl and gives a voice to the mothers and children, who engage, inform and try to protect their families. The impressive documentary and the discussion with the very committed film director Hitomi Kamanaka was embraced by the audience and therefore the film reached the second place of the Nippon Visions Audience Award Voting 2015.

Watch the video of the discussion with director Hitomi Kamanaka: https://youtu.be/WPD4vmpl68c

Monday, June 1, 2015, 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm, RuW 4.238, Campus Westend
Brown Bag Lunch / Lecture
Senior Lecturer Dr. Brigitte Steger, University of Cambridge:
Coping with Disaster - Life in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada town, Iwate Prefecture (Japan)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 6 pm, PEG 1.G 165, Campus Westend
Wednesday Film
Documentary and discussion with our project team member Na Zou
Under the dome

Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 6 pm c.t., PEG 1.G 165, Campus Westend
Wednesday Lecture
Assistant Prof. Charlotte Dany, Goethe University:
The Politics of Rejecting Humanitarian Aid: Lessons from Myanmar, Japan, India, and the United States



"Protecting the Weak" International Conference, January, 22 – 24, 2015

This first international conference of the project "Entangled Processes of Framing, Mobilization and Institutionalization in East Asia" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within its initiative “key issues for academia and society” was organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO) at Goethe University in collaboration with the Institute for Social Research (IfS). Corresponding to the interdisciplinary logic of the project, not only the principle investigators of the project, Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz, Heike Holbig, Cornelia Storz and their project team, but also the renowned conference speakers from Europe, Asia, USA and Australia comprised a variety of diverse disciplines like history, polical science, law, economics and cultural studies.

For more information - see Page of "Protecting the Weak" International Conference,  January 2015



Wednesday Film and Lecture Series (Winter Term 2014/2015)



Flyer with all WEDNESDAY FILMS for the winter term 2014/15 (PDF to view + download)

February 4, 2015:
Wednesday film:
Saving 10.000: Winning a war on Suicide in Japan (2012)
Documentary followed by a discussion with members of our "Protecting the Weak" team

January 21, 2015
Wednesday lecture:
Prof. Hans Martin Krämer, Heidelberg University, professor for Japanese Studies
"Toward Post-domestic Normality? Animal Protection Legislation in Japan"

January 14, 2015
Wednesday film:
China's Unnatural Disaster (2009)
Documentary followed by a discussion with members of our "Protecting the Weak" team

December 15, 2014
Monday lecture
Prof. Su Rongyu, Academy of Sciences, Beijing
“The protection of cultural heritage in crisis. A case study of Beijing”

November 19, 2014
Wednesday lecture / film:
“Yaodong , A Short Treatise on Construction”
Film with an introduction by Caroline Bodolec (director) French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS)



Wednesday Lecture Series (Summer Term 2014)


July 9, 2014
Catherine Ingram
“Localized Listening to State-sponsored Heritage-making in Kam Minority Communities of Southwestern China”
more...

May 14, 2014
Barbara Krug
“How to Design (and Maintain) an Ill-functioning Labor Market”
more...

April 23, 2014
Julius Weitzdörfer
“The Legal Case of Fukushima: Energy policy and what the EU has (not) learnt about nuclear liability” (23 April 2014 )
more...



Kick-Off Workshop

Kick-off workshop in Frankfurt a.M., 14-15 March 2014 with a first introduction of all four case studies


International Conference "Protecting the Weak. Concepts, Discourses, and Institutions in East Asia"

March, 2 - 3, 2012
more...


Lecture series "Protecting the Weak" (Summer Term 2011)
at the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies.

https://youtu.be/WPD4vmpl68c