With great pleasure, VSJF would like to announce that the registration is open for the annual VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan) Conference 2023, taking place on November 3-5 at JDZB (Japanese-German Center Berlin) in Berlin. This year’s conference theme is “Labor and (im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, regional and rural-urban perspectives”.

You can register from:  https://jdzb.de/de/veranstaltungen/labor-and-immobility-japan-and-east-and-southeast-asia-transnational-regional-and

The registration is open until 29^th October 2023. Once the registration is completed (double opt-in process), you will receive a QR-code which is necessary for the registration at the conference venue. Please keep the QR-code safely.

The program is available from: https://vsjf.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2023_vsjf-final-short-program.pdf

REMINDER: As we encourage the participation of university students, we will provide a full conference fee waiver for up to 10 students. To apply for this fee waiver, please send your student certificate and a motivation letter (1 page) outlining how attendance at the conference furthers your academic training to Ms. Sohee Park (s1447961@stud.uni-frankfurt.de) by 30th September 2023 (CEST time). The conference organizers reserve the right to select the 10 most qualified applicants.

The conference is co-organized by Ruth Achenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt), Helena Hof (University of Zurich / Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Aimi Muranaka (University of Duisburg-Essen), Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Megha Wadhwa (Free University of Berlin) as a collaboration of the BMBF-funded research project on “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA)” (https://quamafa.de) in cooperation with JDZB and VSJF.

The conference is partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Toshiba International Foundation.

With great pleasure, VSJF would like to announce that the registration is open for the annual VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan) Conference 2023, taking place on November 3-5 at JDZB (Japanese-German Center Berlin) in Berlin. This year’s conference theme is “Labor and (im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, regional and rural-urban perspectives”.

You can register from:  https://jdzb.de/de/veranstaltungen/labor-and-immobility-japan-and-east-and-southeast-asia-transnational-regional-and

The registration is open until 29^th October 2023. Once the registration is completed (double opt-in process), you will receive a QR-code which is necessary for the registration at the conference venue. Please keep the QR-code safely.

The program is available from: https://vsjf.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2023_vsjf-final-short-program.pdf

REMINDER: As we encourage the participation of university students, we will provide a full conference fee waiver for up to 10 students. To apply for this fee waiver, please send your student certificate and a motivation letter (1 page) outlining how attendance at the conference furthers your academic training to Ms. Sohee Park (s1447961@stud.uni-frankfurt.de) by 30th September 2023 (CEST time). The conference organizers reserve the right to select the 10 most qualified applicants.

The conference is co-organized by Ruth Achenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt), Helena Hof (University of Zurich / Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Aimi Muranaka (University of Duisburg-Essen), Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Megha Wadhwa (Free University of Berlin) as a collaboration of the BMBF-funded research project on “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA)” (https://quamafa.de) in cooperation with JDZB and VSJF.

The conference is partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Toshiba International Foundation.