Related Events

Academic Side Events Before and During the Conference

• Third EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students
  Monday, Aug. 29 until Wen., Aug. 31, Vienna, at the Conference Site
• Video Presentation by Prof. Sasaki Mizue (Musashino University):
  物語を通して見た日本語とジェンダー: 竹取物語と鶴の恩返し
  (Japanese Language and Gender as Seen Through Popular Tales: Taketori Monogatari and Tsuru no Ongaeshi)
  Wednesday, Aug. 31, 10:00-11:00 and 16:30-17:30
• Presentation by Prof. Emmerich Simoncsics, Vienna University of Technology: Overcoming Japanese Script Barrier - Computer-aided Japanese Sentence Analyzer (JASAN)
  Wednesday, Aug. 31, 10:00-11:00, JAP 1 (Lecture room/ Japanese Studies 1)
• Workshop: Innovative Scholarship in a Cooperative Environment: Research at Nichibunken (International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto)
  Wednesday, Aug. 31, 11:00-13:00
• Special Presentation: Caricatures on Ukiyoe from 1842 to 1905 (Noriko Brandl, Nora Gesellmann and Sepp Linhart)
  Saturday, Sept. 3, 9:00-10:30

Cultural Side Events

• Concert: Japan in Western Light Music, sponsored by Toshiba Foundation
  Thursday, Sept. 1, 19:00
• Sumo picture exhibition (Mischa Reska)
  from Wednesday, Aug. 31 to Sat., Sept. 3, at the Conference Site
• Guided Tour: The "Siebold Collection" of Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
  Friday, Sept. 2, 19:00

Other Events

• Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830.
  London, British Museum: 30 June 2005 until 11 Sept. 2005. (Related to the Panel Creating Celebrity: Kabuki Actors, Artists and Poets by Drew Gerstle)
• UAAAA Manga. On the Aesthetics of a Trash Culture.
  Vienna, MAK (Museum of Applied Arts): Aug. 31 - Dec. 4, 2005; Opening Event: Aug. 30, 20:00.