IN-EAST News
16.10.2009 - 00:00
VSJF-Tagung
Symposium RISK AND EAST ASIA
Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB) and
German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF) in cooperation with
The National Institute of Chinese Studies – White Rose East Asia Centre – UK (WREAC)
Tentative Program for the
Symposium RISK AND EAST ASIA
Friday, November 20 – Sunday, November 22, 2009
at the JDZB, Saargemünder Str. 2, 14195 Berlin
(click here for a pdf-download of a registration sheet: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/VSJF_Registration_sheet.pdf)
Thursday, November 19
Gender Workshop
Publication Workshop
Friday, November 20
Gender Workshop
Publication Workshop
14.30 h Registration
15.00 h Greetings
– Friederike BOSSE (Secretary General, JDZB)
– Wolfram MANZENREITER (President, VSJF)
– Flemming CHRISTIANSEN (Director, National Institute of Chinese Studies, WREAC)
Short Introduction to the Conference Program
– Karen SHIRE (Duisburg-Essen University)
(click here for a pdf-download of a short introduction to the conference program: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/Risk_and_East_Asia_conference.pdf)
15.30 h Reflexive Modernisation in East Asia – Chair: HAYASHI Kaori (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo)
Reception of Ulrich Beck’s Sociology in Japan: from Environmental Risk to Individualization
ITO Midori (Otsuma Women’s University) and SUZUKI Munenori (Hosei University)
Reflexive Modernization as a Response to Compressed First Modernity. Exploring the Specific Pathway to Second Modernity in East Asia
HAN Sang-Jin (Seoul National University)
Multiple Reflexive Modernities under Glocalization; Focusing on the Case of Japan
YUI Kiyomisu (Kobe University)
17.00 h Keynote Speech: Reflexive Modernity in Non-European Contexts
Ulrich BECK (LMU München)
17.30 h Coffee Break
18.00 h Podium Discussion: Theoretical Reflections on East Asia in the World Risk Society – Chair: Anja WEISS (University Duisburg-Essen)
– ITO Midori (Otsuma Women’s University)
– HAN Sang-Jin (Seoul National University)
– SUZUKI Munenori (Hosei University)
– YUI Kiyomisu (Kobe University)
– Ulrich BECK (LMU München)
20.00–21.30 h Buffet Dinner
Saturday, November 21
09.30 h Social Risks and Inequalities – Livelihoods, Families and (Un)employment – Chair: Anne SKARPELIS (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Challenges to the Livelihood Security System in Japan from a Gender Perspective
OSAWA Mari (JSPS Global Center of Excellence Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality, University of Tokyo)
Life Goes On: Unemployed Women Workers in Urban China
LIU Jieyu (Leeds University)
The Disappearing Family in Japan (tbc)
Jane BACHNIK (National Institute of Multimedia Education)
11.00 h Coffee Break
11.30 h Podium Discussion: Regional Mechanisms in East Asia: A Meaningful Response to the Financial Crisis? – Chair: KAWAI Norifumi (University Duisburg-Essen)
– Hanns Günther HILPERT (German Institute for International Security Affairs – SWP)
– Frank RÖVEKAMP (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences)
– Andrea MONARI (Resident Director General, European Representative Office, Asian Development Bank)
– Werner PASCHA (University Duisburg-Essen)
13.00 h Lunch
14.30 h Governing Risks in East Asian Societies – Chair: IMAI Jun (Global Centre of Excellence and Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University)
Competition under Hierarchy: Central-local relations and reform politics in rural China
Christian GÖBEL (Lund University)
Neo-liberal States Hedging Risks: New knowledge production through life-long learning in Japan
OGAWA Akihiro (University Duisburg-Essen)
The Governing of Family Risks in Contemporary Japan
TAKEDA Hiroko (Sheffield University)
16.00 h Coffee Break
16.30 h VSJF Working Group Meetings
(Politics, Culture, Sociology, Geography, Economics, Education)
19.00 h Dinner
20.00 h VSJF Membership Meeting
Sunday, November 22
09.30 h Rural Transformations in East Asia: Economic, Social and Political Risks – Chair: Winfried FLÜCHTER (University Duisburg-Essen)
A Story of an Entrepreneurial Migrant Family in China: Risk, agency and networks
Heather X. ZHANG (Leeds University)
Overcoming Crisis? – Re-vitalization Strategies for Arita’s Ceramic Industry
Cornelia REIHER (Leipzig University)
The Dilemma of Food Security in China
Flemming CHRISTIANSEN (Leeds University)
11.00 h Coffee Break
11.30 h Resume: Risk and East Asia – Does Risk Travel? – Chair: Iris WIECZOREK (German Science Foundation – DFG, Tokyo Bureau)
13.00 h End of the symposium