NAJS 2019: “Naming an Era”

Location

NAJS2019 will take place at the University of Turku in the Publicum building (address: Assistentinkatu 7, 20500 Turku).

If you have problems finding us, please call Annamari’s phone: +358 50-330 8327

How to get to Turku

From Helsinki-Vantaa airport you can get to Turku by bus or train which takes around 2 hours. You can find up-to-date bus schedule here and train schedule here. You can also take a plane to Turku.

Map of Helsinki

Turku airport is about 7 km away from the city centre of Turku and runs domestic flights as well as a few international connections. To get to the city centre from Turku airport you can take a bus that runs regularly. The price for the bus ticket is 3€ and the ticket is valid for 2 hours in all city buses.

Another way to arrive to Turku from Stockholm is via ferry which takes around 10 hours and can be taken either during the day or overnight. Here are links to the websites of the operating companies Silja line and Viking line.

How to get to the conference venue

Publicum building is at a walking distance from the city centre (about 20 mins). You can also take a bus (e.g. 50, 51, 53, 54) to Hämeenkatu 2 to arrive at the campus area. You can also ride a Föli bike which can be found at several stations in Turku and there is a station at Publicum as well. For more information about buses and citybikes, see Föli's website.

Map of Turku

Campus map (the conference venue is marked with T50).

Accommodation

There are quotas available in a few hotels for the participants in the conference. Participants will need to book their own accommodation and pay directly to the hotel. Please check the locations of the hotels before you book. The organizers have reserved quotas in the following hotels:

Holiday Club Caribia

Holiday Club Caribia is located very close to the conference venue. Hotel guests enjoy modern and cozy rooms and direct indoor access to the spa, restaurants and all available indoor activities. Address: Kongressikuja 1, 20540 Turku.  Website of the hotel.

Room prices:

Single room: 108 €/night

Double room: 138 €/night

Please mention the code “NAJS2019Turku” when making the reservation. The quota is valid until 2.5.2019.

Sokos Hotel Wiklund

Sokos Hotel Wiklund is a laid-back and completely renewed urban hotel in the heart of Turku. The building also hosts variety of restaurants, cafes, burgers and bars. Address: Eerikinkatu 11
20100, Turku. Website of the hotel

Room prices:

Single room: 106 €/night/room

Double room: 116 €/night/room

Please mention the code “NAJS2019Turku” when making the reservation. The reserved quota is for 15 rooms. The quota for 10 of the rooms is valid until 24.4.2019 and for the other 5 rooms -  until 8.5.2019.

Scandic Turku

Scandic Turku is a cosy and peaceful hotel in an excellent location where all you need is nearby. The hotel offers a restaurant, bar, sauna and swimming pool. Address: Eerikinkatu 28-30, Turku. Website of the hotel

Room prices (22.-25.05.2019):

Single room: 90.25 €/night

Double room: 114.50 €/night

Please mention the code “NAJS2019Turku” when making the reservation. The quota is valid until 8.5.2019 for as many rooms as there are available.

 

Other accommodation options

Please find a list of a few budget hotels/hostels below and also feel free to explore other options on your own.

Guesthouse Tapuli Address: Kaivokatu 14, 20520 Turku. Website

Omena Hotel Turku Address: Humalistonkatu 7, 20100 Turku.  Website

Hotel Helmi Address: Tuureporinkatu 11, 20100 Turku. Website

Inn 22 Address: Vanha Littoistentie 22, 20540 Turku. Website

Forenom A furnished apartments provider. Website: Website

 

More options with links (The list is in Finnish but it has links to different accommodation options): http://www.visitturku.fi/majoituspalveluja

 

 Please note that the programme is subject to change.

 

THURSDAY   23 May 09.00 – 09.45 Registration; coffee 09.45 – 10.00 Opening of the conference  10.00 – 11.00 David Leheny: Keynote Speech Empire of Hope and Reiwa Olympiad: Narrative, Emotion, and Politics in Contemporary Japan 11.00 – 12.20 Session 1 Heisei Politics (Chair: Annamari Konttinen) 12.20 – 13.10 Lunch (sushi lunch in the lobby) 13.10 – 14.40 Workshop 1 Politics, Nuclear Energy and Society (Chair: Silja Keva) 14.40 – 15.00 Coffee break 15.00 – 16.20 Session 2 Japan in the world (Chair: Jens Sejrup) Session 3 Controversies (Chair: Yoko Demelius) 16.20 - 17.00 NIAS representative Naomi Magnussen: Japanese databases from NIAS and beyond   17.15 Welcome and a toast hosted by the City of Turku   19.00 Dinner at Tiirikkala, Linnankatu 3       FRIDAY         24 May 9.00 – 10.30 Workshop 2 The Abe Era (Chair: Pilvi Posio) Workshop 3 IR and Politics (Chair: Bart Gaens) 10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break 10.50 - 11.50 Lionel Babicz: Keynote Speech Japan-Korea: (Big) History as a Tool for Reconciliation? 11.50 – 13.10 Lunch at restaurant Bruukki, Helsinginkatu 15 13.10 – 14.30 Session 4 Culture (Chair: Bart Gaens) Session 5 Social Institutions (Chair: Dick Stegewerns) 14.30 – 14.50 Coffee Break 14.50 – 16.20 Workshop 4 Contemporary culture (Chair: Jens Sejrup) 16.20 – 17.00 Discussion: NAJS in the Future

Guidelines for Participation

It is a prerequisite for participants to read all papers presented at the conference beforehand. 

Format

 

The papers are grouped in two types of sessions according to whether the author has labeled them near-finished or work in progress. The finished or near-finished papers are in Sessions, and the works in progress are in Workshops. Since the NAJS prioritizes discussion of and feedback on papers, no time will be given for the presenter to summarize their paper. The presenter is, however, allowed a maximum of five minutes to state what type of publication or audience he/she is aiming at and state special requests about the desired feedback. Thereafter two discussants will be given five minutes each to bring up the points most worthy of discussion in the paper. The presenter is then given five minutes to respond before the floor is opened for everyone to comment. The chair of the session should see to it that focus is on major issues rather than details and that the time limit is kept. In Workshop sessions the format is more flexible.

 

Sessions and Workshops

 

The sessions and workshops are only open for registered participants and CEAS Master's students.

 

SESSION 1: HEISEI POLITICS

23 May, 11-12.20, Pub 4

Chair: Annamari Konttinen

 

1. Marc Yamada

   Locating the Lost Decades: Popular Fiction and the Historical Trauma of Heisei Japan

   Discussants: Pilvi Posio, Karol Zakowski

2. Yoko Demelius

   Multiculturalism in a “homogeneous” society: struggling the way to an imagined “new international Japan

   Discussants: Marco Zappa, Youngtae Shin

3. Michal Kolmaš

   How do states legitimize climatic targets in the Paris Agreement? Analysing the NDC discourse in broader political, climatic and economic context

   Discussants: Takeshi Hamano, Karol Zakowski

    

    

 

SESSION 2: JAPAN IN THE WORLD

23 May, 15-16.20, Pub 4

Chair: Jens Sejrup

 

1. Lenka Vyletalova

   Becoming ‘global’ in Heisei Japan: institutional reforms and changing employee perceptions

   Discussants: Scott North, Maria Malashevskaya

2. Pekka Korhonen

   Passing of the Idea of Japan as a Bridge between the East and the West

   Discussants: Naoko Hosokawa, Yijiang Zhong

3. Maria Malashevskaya

   Eurasianism in Japan at the turn of the 21^st century: the Eurasian discourse in the novel by Kuroki Ryo “A runway on the Great Silk Road'

   Discussants: Pekka Korhonen, Garcia Chambers

    

 

 

SESSION 3: CONTROVERSIES

23 May, 15-16.20, Pub 5

Chair: Yoko Demelius

 

1. Igor Prusa

   Manufacturing Scandal in Japan

   Discussants: Marco Zappa, Hajime Hasegawa

2. Youngtae Shin

   The Evolution of Japanese Women’s Political Activism and Future Trends

   Discussants: Donna Weeks, Yoko Demelius

3. Donna Weeks

   On shaking the mountain: Advances and retreats in the experiences of Japan's female parliamentarians

   Discussants: Youngtae Shin, Silja Keva

    

    

    

SESSION 4: CULTURE

24 May, 13.10-14.30, Pub 4

Chair: Bart Gaens

 

1. Jens Sejrup

   Claiming universal space: Japanese efforts to secure world-heritage inscription of Le Corbusier’s building for the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo

   Discussants: Takeshi Hamano, Pekka Korhonen

2. Marta Szczygiel

   “Japan, the Washlet country” - Exegesis of Japanese high-tech toilets

   Discussants: Jens Sejrup, Hui Wang

 

 

SESSION 5: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

24 May, 13.10-14.30, Pub 5

Chair: Dick Stegewerns

 

 

1. Anastasia Borisova

   The influence of the ICT on relationships in the family of modern Japanese (based on the Japanese students survey)

   Discussants: Marianne Tarcov, Ksenia Kurochkina

2. Scott North

   Considering Labor in Heisei through a Karōshi Lens: The Trajectory of a Social Problem in Japan

   Discussants: Lenka Vyletalova Marianne Tarcov

3. Yijiang Zhong

   The Lost Decades and Globalizing Japan’s Higher Education

   Discussants: Anastasia Borisova, Dick Stegewerns

 

 

WORKSHOP 1: POLITICS, NUCLEAR ENERGY AND SOCIETY

23 May, 13.10-14.40, Pub 4

Chair: Silja Keva

 

1. Pilvi Posio

   From peace time to post-disaster and back (to the future)

   Discussants: Marc Yamada, Olena Kalashnikova

2. Olena Kalashnikova

   The end of the Nuclear Energy Era?

   Discussants: Igor Prusa, Annamari Konttinen

3. Hajime Hasegawa

   The Theme Park of Nuclear: An Exhaustive Survey on Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Centers in Post-Fukushima Japan

   Discussants: Marc Yamada, Olena Kalashnikova

    

    

    

WORKSHOP 2: THE ABE ERA

 24 May, 9.00-10.30, Pub 4

Chair: Pilvi Posio

 

1. Marco Zappa

   The socialization of Japanese politics: Harnessing the power of social media in the Abe era

   Discussants: Igor Prusa, Michal Kolmaš

2. Ksenia Kurochkina

   New peasantry in the post-growth Japan: self-sufficiency, gift-giving and bodily engagements.

   Discussants: Yoko Demelius, Hajime Hasegawa

3. Karol Zakowski

   Decision-making Process on Abenomics in Japan

   Discussants: Michal Kolmaš, Eija Niskanen

    

    

    

    

WORKSHOP 3: IR AND POLITICS

 24 May, 9.00-10.30, Pub 5

Chair: Bart Gaens

1. Takeshi Hamano

   Embracing International Convention in State Legislation: An Analysis of Discourse on Japan’s Implementation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

   Discussants: Silja Keva, Jens Sejrup

2. Naoko Hosokawa

   Linguistic Identity of the ‘East’: Perception of Sino-Japanese Style Loan Translation in Contemporary Japan

   Discussants: Yijiang Zhong, Maria Malashevskaya

3. Silja Keva

   Diet Members and Japan’s Normative Power

   Discussants: Donna Weeks, Olena Kalashnikova

    

    

WORKSHOP 4: CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

24 May, 14.50-16.20, Pub 4

Chair: Jens Sejrup

1. Hui Wang

   Art and Culture Industry in Late Capitalism - Decoding Japanese Anime-Pop

   Discussants: Eija Niskanen, Lenka Vyletalova

2. Marianne Tarcov

   The Break-up of SMAP and the End of the Heisei Era: Renouncing Life as a Virtual Body

   Discussants: Scott North, Anastasia Borisova

3. Garcia Chambers

   Everyday Aesthetics in Japan: a Descriptive Analysis of Conversational and Interactive Encounters

   Discussants: Naoko Hosokawa, Marta Szczygiel

4. Eija Niskanen

   Seisaku-i-inkai – The Heisei era film production system

   Discussants: Marta Szczygiel, Hui Wang

 

 

Conference Menu

 

Lunches and dinners are provided only for registered participants.

Thursday 23 May

Lunch: Sushi selection and miso soup at Publicum lobby

Dinner: Buffet at Tiirikkala, Linnankatu 3  

Caesar salad

Cauliflower tabouleh

Tomato with avocado and basil

Cheese with nuts and honey

Smoked salmon mousse with archipelago bread

Roasted spring carrot with balsamico and parmesan

Green salad

Focaccia with hummus

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Fried chicken with mint couscous and yoghurt

Grilled asparagus with halloumi and quinoa

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Lemon marengue cake

 

Friday 24 May

 

Lunch at Bruukki, Helsinginkatu 15

Carrot soup with goat cheese

Hawaiian schnitzel with potato wedges and chili mayonnaise

Spinach and Feta omelette