Dr. Fabian Schäfer

MEARC Writing Up Grant Recipient
School of Asian Studies, Leiden University
Arsenaalstraat 1, PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
E-Mail: fschaefer@gmail.com

Publications

“The Re-articulation of Cultural Studies in Japan and its Consequences for Japanese Studies.” In: International Journal of Cultural Studies 12:1 (2009), S. 23-41.

“The Beginnings of Media and Communication Studies in Japan within Transnational Contexts (1920–37) – Adaptations, Reciprocities, and Parallels” (in German) In: Japan Aktuell 16:4, S. 5-32.

“Tosaka Jun’s Critique of Bourgeois Liberalism and Nipponist Fascism in Japan.” (in German) In: Legeland, Marie-Luise; Manthey, Barbara; Lützeler, Ralph; Ölschläger, Hans Dieter; Distelrath, Günther (Eds.): Von Bauern, Beamten und Banditen. Beiträge zur historischen Japanforschung. Festschrift für Detlev Taranczewski zu seinem sechzigsten Geburtstag von seinen Schülern und Kollegen. Bonn: Bier’sche (2007), 203-228.

“Cultural Studies in Japan.” (in German) In: Hans Martin Krämer; Tino Schölz; Sebastian Conrad (Eds.) Geschichtswissenschaft in Japan. Themen, Ansätze und Theorien. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht (2006), 213-233.

“Ono Hideo and the Origins of Newspaper Studies (Shinbungaku) in Japan.” (in German) In: Stefanie Averbeck/Arnulf Kutsch (Eds.): Zeitung, Werbung, Öffentlichkeit. Biografisch-systematische Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Kommunikationsforschung, Köln: Halem (2005), 23-54.

“The Meaning of Urban Space for the Everyday Utopia of Modern Lifestyle in the 1920s and 30s.” (in German) In: Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, Vol. 28 (2004), 65-84.

Invited lectures

2008 “Critical Cultural and Media Theory in Japan: Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) and the Japanese Reception of Cultural Studies,” December 12, Trier University.

2008 “‘Animalization’ of Academia? – Scholarly Practice and Criticism in the Digital Age.” Presented at the conference “Digital Archive and the Future of Transpacific Studies”, September 12–14, Cornell University.

2008 “The Origins of Media and Communication Studies in Japan – Reciprocities, Adaptations, and Parallels.” Presented at the research colloquium of the East Asian Institute, January 15, University of Düsseldorf.

2007 “Academy and Journalism – Means and Spaces of Critical Thought in Times of Crisis.” Presented at the first conference of the international research project “Rewriting Modern and Contemporary Japanese Intellectual History,” February 26–27, Leipzig University.

2006 “The Emergence of Cultural Studies in Japan.” Presented at the VSJF Annual Meeting “Social Science Matters,” November 10–12, Hamburg.

2006 “Early Theories of Public Opinion and the Press in Prewar-Japan.” Presented to East-Asia-Colloquium, September 19, Cornell University.

2005 “The Origins of Media- and Communications Research in Prewar Japan: Constructivist and Critical Perspectives.” Presented to the “History and Humanities Study Group”, German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ), October 4, Tōkyō.

Scholarly papers presented

2008 “On Early Media and Communication Studies in Japan (1920-1937).” Presented at the Annual DGPuk Conference in Lugano, April 30.

2008 “Tosaka Jun’s Critique of Journalism and Public Opinion.” Presented at the AAS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, April 4.

2006 “Early Approaches towards Media and Communication in the 1930s: Tosaka Jun und Koyama Eizō.” (in German) Presented at the 13th Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, September 12–15, Bonn.

2004 “Senzenki nihon ni okeru mediaron-teki shisō – shinbungaku to shakaigaku wo meguru doitsu to nihon no gensetsu kūkan.” (Media Theory in Prewar Japan – the Discoursive Space of Newspaper Studies and Sociology in Germany and Japan) Presented to the graduate colloquium of Prof. Yoshimi Shun’ya, November 4, University of Tōkyō.

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