September 2010:
A new Stand-In Professor is going to join the Chair of Modern Japanese Studies for the forthcoming winterterm. He'll be available at the University of Duisburg-Essen by the end of September.
Thursday, March 04th, 2010
Courses and schedules updated, but still tentative. Changes may occur, but will be announced on time!
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Courses and schedules updated!
Pls. note that Ms Ando changed her office and is now available in LE 648! Pls. keep in mind!
October, 2009
Prof. Flemming Christiansen PhD of the University of Leeds joins the Department of Modern Japanese Studies and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) as stand-in Professor for the next two terms/semesters. Welcome!!!
Dr. Yuko Sugita unfortunately left the University of Duisburg-Essen at the end of summer-term 2009. All the best and good luck!
August, 2009
New couses for winter-term 2009/2010 are online. Pls. see on our website.
Friday, June 26 to Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The IN-EAST moves back - and so does the Department of Modern Japanese Studies! From Friday, June 26 to Wednesday, July 1 the IN-EAST will move back to the LE-Building again. The Department will be available in LE (7th floor) from Wednesday, July 1st on. Pls. keep in mind!
May 7th. 2009
The Department of Modern Japanese Studies (along with the IN-EAST!) is going to temporarily move to a different building of the Campus Duisburg! Pls. find us then in the LS BUILDING on the Lotharstrasse, Duisburg.
April 16th, 2009
Attention: TIME and ROOM for Dr. Sugita's Seminar "Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachpolitik Japans" have been changed and updated! Pls. take this into consideration!!!
April 07th, 2009
Course overview updated !!!
April 1st, 2009
Dr. David Chiavacci of the Freie Universitaet Berlin joins the Department of Modern Japanese Studies and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) as stand-in Professor for the summer term 2009. Welcome!!!
March 20th, 2009
Course overview updated!
November 4th, 2008
PD Dr. Patrick Heinrich publishes an article on the reappreciation of Okinawan languages in the Japan Times.
For more information see: Japan Times Online
Fall 2008 - Summer 2010
PD Dr. Patrick Heinrich was awarded a collaborative research grant of the Humboldt-Foundation and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and is staying at the Univ of Ryukyus as a visiting scholar. He is currently working on documenting local languages of Yonaguni, Okinawa.
For more information please visit his homepage: http://dunangmunui.com
August 25th 2008
PD Dr. Patrick Heinrich discusses about Uchinaaguchi. Click here to read the Japanese article.
July 16th 2008
Special Seminar by Prof. Dr. James Grayson (University of Sheffield): Conflict between Filial Piety (孝) and Christian Theology: How Korean Protestants Resolve the Conflict.
July 8th 2008
Special Seminar by Dr. Jeremy Taylor (University of Sheffield): 'Qu Jiang hua' (去蒋化): Re-appraising debates about the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's reign on Taiwan.
April 8th to April 10th 2008
Fija Bairon teaches a block seminar on Uchinaaguchi (Okinawa-Ryukyuan). The seminar is sponored by Toshiba International Foundation.
For more information pls. click here
February 1st 2008
Lecture by Prof. Till Weber (University of the Ryukyus): "Die Rose in Okinawa - eine Episode von Hamburger Kaufleuten in Okinawa"
December 17th 2007
Lecture by Dr. Matthias Brenzinger (Cologne University): "Sotaika - a pictured talk on death in Japan"
October 15th to October 17th 2007
Prof. Dr. Saukuen Fan (Kanda University of Foreign Studies) teaches a block seminar on “Language management in Japanese contexts”. The seminar is sponsored by Toshiba International Foundation
June 9th to June 15th 2007
Department of Modern Japanese Studies and the Student Representatives (Fachschaft) of East Asian Studies present Japanese popular culture at the Humanities Fair in Essen.
June 4th 2007
Lecture by Prof. Rosa Caroli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice): “The new frontier of the Japanese nation state: Ainu and Okinawa between modernization and colonialism” at Campus Duisburg, Bldg. LE Room 736, 16:15—17:45h. The lecture is open to the interested public.
March 2007
Courses overview updated.
February 2007
Inoue, Fumio (2007). Kawaru hōgen – ugoku hyōjungo [Changing dialects – moving standard language]. Tokyo: Chikuma shobo.
Inoue's book is based on an intensive course taught at Duisburg-Essen University in 2004 which was supported by a grant of the Toshiba Foundation.
February 20th to 22nd 2007
Conference: "Babel in reverse. Language ideology in the 21st century" online.
February 5th 2007
Guest lecture by Dr. Shin ABE (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) on the topic “The Bonin Islands: A laboratory of the dialect contact – Dialect formation and dialect consciousness” at Campus Duisburg, Bldg. LE Room 736, 18:15—19:45h. The lecture is open to the interested public.
November 2006
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports the funding on a conference titled „Babel in Reverse? Language ideology in the 21st century“. The conference will be convened in Mülheim between February 20th to 23rd 2007. Participants from Japan, China, Australia and Europe will discuss language endangerment and language revitalisation efforts in the 21st century.
October 2006
MA Master programm “Japanese Sociolinguistics” inaugurated.
October 2006
Patrick Heinrich and Yuko Sugita participate at the DoBeS (Documentation of endangered languages) training program at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen.