EJEA – European Japan Experts Association

Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum in Berlin (JDZB), cooperated with German Federal Foreign Office (Berlin), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Berlin), Japan Institute of International Affairs (Tōkyō), holds the Virtual Symposium;

This year, under difficult circumstances, we celebrate both the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and the 50th anniversary of the entry-into-force of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

At the same time, in 2020, we commemorate the 75th year after the horror of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Against the backdrop of a turbulently changing world order, Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us that sustainable impulses for nuclear disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation are urgently needed. Nuclear weapons still pose an imminent threat to mankind, and, as some have argued, may enter a renaissance before long.

Alongside many other countries, Japan and Germany work closely together to reverse any such trends and to come closer to the common goal of a world free of nuclear weapons. This especially concerns their leadership in diplomatic efforts such as the Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI).

Despite these efforts, a world free of nuclear weapons seems remote. Nuclear disarmament has reached a standstill, proliferation crises demand our fullest resolve, the risk of inadvertent escalation is growing. The entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons polarizes the NPT community and reflects the wide expectation gap in achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. Ahead of the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2021, this symposium aims at reviewing the current state of the multilateral nuclear order, and weighing sustainable pathways to nuclear disarmament. High-ranking experts from politics, government, academia, and civil society will come together to discuss the issues at hand. Day 1 will focus on Japanese and German perspectives on nuclear disarmament, while Day 2 will focus on regional challenges in Asia and Europe.

Day 1 (3 December) will be held in German and Japanese with simultaneous translation.
Day 2 (4 December) will be held in English without translation.

For your virtual participation via Zoom please register by returning the requested information by E-Mail to Sven TRASCHEWSKI at straschewski@jdzb.de by 26 November 2020:
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Program is available here.

Graduate School of East Asia Studies (GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin, invites to the GEAS Winter Digital Lecture Series Winter 20/21: East Asian Responses To Crisis.

The Covid-19 pandemic has called for new responses to crisis worldwide. How have governments and people of East Asian countries coped with the current and previous crises, and what strategies have they developed? In this GEAS Lecture Series, scholars from GEAS and FUB colleagues discuss responses to the current Covid-19 pandemic by East Asian governments and people, including people from East Asia in Berlin. The last lecture in the series reflects dealing with disasters, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 3.11 triple disaster in Japan.

Programme 

The lectures will take place exclusively online. Please find below the registration information as well as the links for participation on each event website.

25.11.2020 12:00 PM
Covid 19: Responses to a global pandemic
Eun-Jeung Lee (Freie Universität Berlin)

03.12.2020 12:00 PM
Coping with uncertainty: Berlin’s Japanese restaurateurs during the Covid-19 pandemic
Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)

22.01.2021 13:00 PM
Casting ancient nets: Chinese grid-style social management during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (Freie Universität Berlin) and Franziska Plümmer (University of Vienna)

25.02.2021 12:00 PM
Remembering the 3.11 triple disaster in Japan
Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin) and Julia Gerster (Tohoku University)

Freie Universität Berlin uses the video conferencing system Webex from Cisco. It is not necessary to install any software on a desktop PC via any browser. For mobile devices, the app Webex Meet is recommended. You may need a microphone on your end device (Smartphone, Tablet, Notebook, PC) to ask questions.

Further Information

http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/events/lectures/20_lec_series.html

Graduate School of East Asian Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
+49 (0)30 838 51596

events@geas.fu-berlin.de

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ) holds the Web-Forum in co-operation with Taylor Wessing on;

Thursday, 3 December 2020, 18:00h – 19:30h (Japan)  10:00h – 11:30h (Germany) 

From New Normal to New Work? Insights from Japan and Germany

Speakers:     Andrea Hammermann, German Economic Institute
                    Nobuko Nagase, Ochanomizu University
                    Michael Johannes Pils, Taylor Wessing
                    Chisako Takaya, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Moderator:  Franz Waldenberger, DIJ

Due to the corona pandemic, work organization has been subject to dramatic change, and teleworking from home offices had to be suddenly implemented to keep businesses running. Mobile working, software-based collaboration, web-based meetings and new means of performance control were installed at a large scale. Have we suddenly reached the long-discussed digital future of work? Or is this only a temporary phase, and work life will return to what it was before the pandemic? Our speakers will outline the major changes in the organization of work caused by the pandemic in Japan and Germany. They will also discuss to what extent national regulations have been obstructing, shaping or supporting respective adjustments and assess to what extent the newly introduced workstyles can be expected to last. 

This Web-Forum will be held in English, online (Zoom). Detailed information and registration on our website 
Log-in data will be provided upon registration.

German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)

German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok holds on;

Thursday, November 26, 2020 16:00h – 19:30h (Tokyo); 14:00h – 17:30 (Bangkok)
Friday, November 27, 2020 16:00h – 18:30h (Tokyo); 14:00h – 16:30 (Bangkok)

Symposium on the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Japanese Parliament:
Global Views of Japanese Parliamentarism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

On November 29, 1890, the parliament of the Empire of Japan, the Imperial Diet, met for the first time marking the beginning of parliamentary government not only in Japan but in Asia. However, while the recognition of Japan as a role model for successful ‘modernization’ of a non-Western society in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War has received much scholarly attention, the transnational appeal of this successful establishment of representative governance in Japan has not yet received much interest.
The German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, and the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, will therefore take the occasion of this year’s 130th anniversary of the opening of the Imperial Japanese Diet as an opportunity to hold a symposium to discuss the global appeal of this first functioning constitutional government in Asia and beyond.

For further information on speakers, detailed program and technical details refer to our website: dij.tokyo/symp130

The event is open to all. Registration is required until November 25, 2020 (JST)online or via ganseforth@dijtokyo.org. Log-in data will be provided after registration.