Dag 1
Wednesday 18-March
13:00 Visit Book Tour
14:00–16:00 Campus Tour
Dag 2
DAY 2:
Thursday 19 March
Venue: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Facultyboard Room, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent
10:00 Introduction of Ghent University and the Institute for Japanese, Andreas Niehaus
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 Introduction of the Tohoku University Center for Integrated Japanese Studies (CIJS), Director Adachi Hiroaki
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:45 Luca Milasi “Searching for 'Adam’s Perfect Speech': The Phonograph/Logograph Divide and the Roman Catholic Archives as a Laboratory for Early Japanese Studies”
14:45–15:30 Mick Deneckere “From Paris to Meiji Japan: De Rosny, Renan, and Burnouf’s Impact on Ishikawa Shuntai and the Birth of Religious Studies in Japan”
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Ran Wei “Theorizing Postwar Grotesque: Representations of Military Ruins and Apache Tribe in Kaikō Takeshi's Japan's Three Penny Opera (1959)”
16:45–17:30 Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd “Characterological Engagement and Digital Fan Practice: Linguistic Insights from a Vtuber Fandom”
17:30–18:30 John D'Amico “Borrowing Trouble in Early Modern Japan”
18:30 Reception
Dag 3
Friday 20 March
Venue: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Facultyboard Room, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent
9:00–9:45 Paride Stortini “Relive Nara Cosmopolitanism: Nostalgia, Aesthetics, and Community Building at Yakushiji”
9:45–10:30 Marlies Holvoet “Ikebana as a Global Practice: (Re-)Arranging Boundaries”
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:45 Oguma Rie “Japanese Film Subtitling Project by Belgian University Students: Project‑Based Language Learning and Its Effects”
11:45–12:30 Sebastian Nehrdich “Dharmamitra: A Platform to Support Research across Language Boundaries on Buddhist Textual Material”
12:30–13:15 Felix Spremberg “Japan’s ‘Super Smart’ Society 5.0 and Toyota’s Woven City as a Technocratic Site of Knowledge Production”
13:15–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:00 Andreas Niehaus “Emotional, Social and Political Spaces: Food on the Move in Hayashi Fumiko’s travelogue Santō Ryokōki (1933)”
15:00–15:30 30 Anna Andreeva “Buddhist knowledge on women's reproductive health in early medieval Japan”
15:30–16:00 Justin Stein “Ancient Mountain, Modern Spiritualities: Mount Kurama as a Site for Contemporary Pilgrimage”
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Christian Uhl “Unevenness, Non-Contemporaneity and the Everyday in Ishikawa Takuboku’s poetry and poetology”
16:45–17:30 Tianyang Huang “Deadly or Remediable? Gender, Science, and the Ambivalence about Harm in the Trial of A Woman Doctor, 1939–1940”
17:30 Closing Remarks