Transition – A Paradigm of World Society in the 21st Century
German-Japanese Symposium of Kobe Universty
in Cooperation with Trier University
and DFG-Center of Advanced Studies FOR 2603: Poetry in Transition
Program:
Wednesday, 16 Oct.
Opening
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Hiroko Masumoto, Vice President of Kobe University
10:00-10:15
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Takeda, President of Kobe University
10:15-10:25
Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel, President of Trier University
10:25-10:30
Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl, Trier University, Project Leader of DFG-Center of Advanced Studies FOR 2603
10:30-11:00 Keynote:
Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel (Sociology), President of Trier University: Leading and Responding – Universities and the »Digital Turn«
11:10-13:10 I. International Economic Preferences and Behaviour
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Masahiko Yoshii (Economics, Kobe, Executive Vice President): Cultural Differences of Economic Behaviours between Japan and Europe
Prof. Dr. Marc Rieger (Economics, Trier): Nationalism and Economic Preferences among Students in Europe and East Asia
Dr. Sumit Deole (Economics, Trier): How do new immigration flows affect existing immigrants?
Prof. Yunfang Hu (Economics, Kobe): Cultural Difference and Trade Patterns
13:10-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-17:00 II. Inter- and Transnationality
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Martin Heidenreich (Sociology, Oldenburg): Europe between economic integration and socio-cultural fragmentation. The example of southern and eastern European peripheries
Prof. em. Dr. Kiyomitsu Yui (Sociology, Kobe): Cosmopolitan Vision and / or Clash of Civilizations : In Relation to East Asian Community(?)and EU
Prof. Dr. Manuel Fröhlich (Political Science, Trier): Conditions of the possibility of an international community from a political science perspective
Prof. Dr. Noriyuki Inoue (Law, Kobe): Constitutionalism beyond national-boarder as the universal value
17:30-19:00 Dinner Reception
Thursday, 17 Oct.
10:00-12:30 III. Lyric and Society
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Zymner (Comparative Literature, Wuppertal): Lyric in social fields and in the world
Prof. Dr. Andreas Regelsberger (Japanese Studies, Trier):
Prof. Dr. Christian Soffel (Chinese Studies, Trier): Ritual, Performance and Ideology: Transition Paradigms of Early Classical Chinese Shi Poetry in the 21st Century
Prof. Dr. Hiroko Masumoto (German Literature, Kobe): Poems as Stones: Ryoichi Wago and Yoko Tawada
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 IV. Nature and Anthropocene
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Heike Paul (American Studies, Erlangen-Nürnberg): Surviving Katrina: Disaster and the Afro-Pessimist Imaginary
Prof. Dr. Lore Hühn (Philosophy, Freiburg): The discourse about the Anthropocene. A new philosophy of nature in the 21st century?
Prof. Dr. Antje Bruns (Geography, Trier): Societal Relations to Nature in the Anthropocene – Transitions and Transformations
Prof. em. Dr. Nobuo Kazashi (Philosophy, Kobe): In Search of “Human Milieu” Lost: Reflections on the Kyoto School Philosophers’ Itineraries between Nishida and Heidegger
Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavic Studies, Trier): Metaphysics of Nature in Contemporary Poetry
Assoc. Prof. Yuho Hisayama (German Literature and Philosophy, Kobe): Self-Consciousness and ki: Reading H. v. Kleist from an East Asian Perspective.
17:00-17:10 Closing
Prof. Dr. Hiroko Masumoto, Kobe University
Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl, Trier Uniersity