Dr. Ioan Trifu

External Collaborator / Former Research Fellow at the Professorship for Japanese Law and Its Cultural Foundations

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Empirical Study: Cultural Heritage

Goethe-University
Faculty 01, Law
Institute for International and European Private Law and Comparative Law
Professorship for Japanese Law and Its Cultural Foundations

Campus Bockenheim, Juridicum
Room 518a (5th floor)
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt/Main
GERMANY
Phone: +49 (0)69 798-36559 (project co-ordinator)
Email: ioan.trifu(at)gmail.com

Mailing address:
Goethe University
"Protecting the Weak" Project
Campus Bockenheim, Juridicum
Senckenberganlage 31
Postbox 56
60325 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY

Consultation hours:
only by appointment


RESEARCH  |  VITA  |  TEACHING  |  PUBLICATIONS  |  TALKS |

 

RESEARCH

Project related research

My current research focuses on the protection of cultural heritage in Japan, examined notably through the lens of political science. Following my doctoral work on postwar Japanese local politics, I am particularly interested in the role of local government on this issue, and, more broadly, in the historical construction and evolution of the notion of cultural heritage in Japan.

Other research interests

Heritage, Memories and Politics; Japanese Political History; Local Government and Politics; Comparative Politics (Education and Cultural policies); Historical approaches in Political Science.

VITA

Employment history

Jan 2014 -

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Professorship of Japanese Law and Its Cultural Foundations, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Feb 2013 –
Dec 2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies, CNRS UMR 5062 (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

May 2011 -
Mar 2012

Research Assistant in the Global Center of Excellence (COE) “Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization”, Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University

Sep 2007 –
Jul 2009

Part-time Lecturer in Japanese Political History, Lumière-Lyon 2 University (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)


 Academic background

Nov 2006 –
Feb 2013

Ph.D. in Political Science (double degree), Lumière-Lyon 2 University (Lyon Institute of Political Studies) and Tohoku University
Dissertation on Prefectural Governors in Post-War Japan: A Socio-Historical Approach under the supervision of Professor Eric Seizelet

Oct 2004 –
Sep 2006

Master degree in Political Science (East Asian Studies), Lumière-Lyon 2 University (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

Oct 1999 – Jun 2003

Bachelor degree in History, Lumière-Lyon 2 University

 
Scholarships

Apr 2009 –
Mar 2011
Japanese Government Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Research Student Scholarship, Faculty of Law, Kobe University
Sept 2006 –
Jul 2007
Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Student Exchange Support Program (Scholarship for Short-Term Study in Japan), Center for Japanese Language, Waseda University


Memberships

Since Jan 2013 Société Française des Études Japonaises (SFEJ ; French Society for Japanese Studies)
Since Apr 2011 European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)

TEACHING

SS 13/14 “Japan under the Postwar Constitution“, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
WS 07/08, 08/09 “Introduction à l’Histoire de la Chine et du Japon” (Introduction to the History of China and Japan), part on Japan, Lumière-Lyon 2 University (Lyon Institute of Political Studies)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Refereed Journals

2017 “Reform in Late Occupation Japan. The 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties” in: ZJapanR / J.Japan.L. 43 (2017) 205–230.         
2013 “Prefectural Governors and Populism in Japan (1990s-2010s)” in Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, Vol. 26, pp. 7-29


Non-academic online publications

2015 Book Review: “Nicolas Baumert, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis (dir.), «Désastres et alimentation: le défi japonais», Géographie et cultures, n° 86, 2013”, Lectures, June.
2013 Prefectural Governors in Post-War Japan: A Socio-Historical Approach, Ph.D. in Political Science, Lumière-Lyon 2 University (Lyon Institute of Political Studies) and Tohoku University



TALKS

Talks at academic Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

 July 5 - 7, 2017 Presentation of the paper “Cultural Policy, Identity Politics and the Transformations of Cultural Heritage Protection in Postwar Japan” and organization of the panel “Implementing the UNESCO Living Human Treasure System in China: A Comparative Analysis Rethinking Cultural Policy: Power, Politics and Public Contestation” with Christina Maags and Dr. Gabriela Toleda Silva at the 12th Interpretative Public Policy Conference, De Montfort University Leicester, UK
June 29 – July 1, 2017 “Rebuilding a “National Culture”? Identity, Public Policy and the Institutionalization of Cultural Heritage Protection in Postwar Japan” paper presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Lyon 1 University
 June 2, 2017 “Promoting Cultural Heritage Protection from East to West: A Comparison of Cultural Governance Systems” paper presented at the Workshop „Calls for Calls for Protecting the Weak in East Asia - Empirical Findings and New Theoretical Insights”, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Dec 15 - 17, 2016

“Pour une approche socio-historique de l’action publique patrimoniale dans le Japon d’après-guerre”, paper presented at the Douzième colloque de la Société Française des Études Japonaises            

Oct 7 - 8, 2016

(with Christina Maags) “Local Appropriation of International Norms in East Asia: The Case of Cultural Heritage”, paper presented at the international conference “Protecting the Weak – Concepts and East Asian Evidence”, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Sept 24-25, 2016

“Japan’s Cultural Heritage Policy: Postwar Identity Politics, Residual Tensions, and Emerging Governance”, paper presented at 2nd EAJS Japan Conference, Kobe University

July 5-7, 2016

“Frames, Emotions and the Politics of Animal Welfare in Japan”, paper presented at Interpretive Policy Analysis 11th International Conference, University of Hull

July 4, 2016

“Les collectivités territoriales japonaises et les mutations de la gouvernance locale”, paper presented at The Japan Foundation Workshop “La précarisation et ses enjeux au Japon”, INALCO and Paris-Diderot University

June 24 - 26, 2016

“On Behalf of the Voiceless and the Weak? Public Policy and the Moral Economies of Animal Welfare in Japan”, paper presented at SASE 2016 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, at the session (organized by Markus Heckel and Ioan Trifu) “Protecting the Weak”: Social Justice and Wellbeing in China and Japan

June 3-8, 2016

“Heritage Conflicts in East Asia: Japan and the Contested Colonial Past”, paper presented at the Third Biannual Conference of the "Association of Critical Heritage Studies", Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

June 3-8, 2016

(with Christina Maags) “Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems”,paper presented at the Third Biannual Conference of the "Association of Critical Heritage Studies", Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Dec 2-4, 2014

(with Christina Maags) “Rethinking ‘Living Culture’: A Comparative Analysis of Framing Intangible Cultural Heritage in China and Japan”,  paper presented at the International Conference of the “Critical Cultural Heritage Association” in Canberra, Australia,

Apr 8-10, 2014 “Populism and Local Democracy in Post-War Japan” papaer presented at Populism: a historiographic category?, Conference of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCo), University of Florence
Oct 17-18, 2013 “Governing Urban Japan and its Future: Rivalry and Cooperation between Large Cities and Prefectures” paper presented at 12th EastAsiaNet Research Workshop “Future cities and space reconfiguration in East Asia: Practices and Representations, Risk and Opportunities”, Lyon
Apr 24-25, 2013 “Prefectural Governors and Populism in Japan (1990s-2010s)” paper presented at the Researching Japan in Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures (Polish Academy of Sciences), University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Warsaw
Oct 13-16, 2011 “Socio-History of Prefectural Governors in Post-War Japan” paper presented at the Tohoku University Global COE Hagi Seminar 2011, Sendai and Akiu
Aug 24-27, 2011 “Prefectural Governors and Local Democracy in Post-War Japan” paper presented at the 13th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Tallinn