university of copenhagen
Viewing Each Other
20-21 March 2017
Ongoing Danish and Japanese research on each
country on the occasion of the 150th anniversary
of the signing of the treaty between the two nations
2-day conference at the University of Copenhagen
Southern Campus, Auditorium 22.0.11
March 20
9.00-9.15Registration
9.15-9.45Opening
Speech by Ambassador Toshiro Suzuki
Speech by Head of Departmenet Ingolf Thuesen
Practical remarks by Yoichi Nagashima
9.45-10.30
Marie Højlund Roesgaard: Teaching Global Citizenship –
Early steps toward a comparative project
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-12.15
Gunhild Borggreen: Japanisme in Art Revisited
Anemone Platz: Mutual acogare. The ongoing search for Danish
happiness and Japanese simplicity
12.15-13.30
Lunch break
13.30-15.00 (in Danish)
Yoichi Nagashima: 11, 26, 37: Religion, Flyvning og Atomfysik i de
dansk-japanske kulturelle forbindelser
Makoto Murai: En overvejelse over Enrico Dalgas' mytes
tilblivelseshistorie i Danmark og Japan
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.45
Kyoko Murakami: Images of KU and Denmark from the eyes of Asian
students: A digital ethnography for furthering internationalisation of KU
Lisbeth Clausen: Team dynamics and diversity in global teams:
Learnings from Danish corporations in Tokyo
16.45-17.00 General discussion
March 21
9.15-10.30Jens Sejrup: The Notion of Prime Ministerial “Appointive Responsibility"
in Japanese Cabinet Scandals and Its Ideological Implications
10.30-10.45
Annette Skovsted Hansen: Inspiration and Competition: Japanese and
Danish Foreign Aid Schemes, 1947- 2017
10.45-12.15
Christian Morimoto Hermansen: Danish Mission in Japan
Yoshikazu Saho: A Danish agricultural engineer Emil Fenger (18941983) and Japan – With a special focus on his Hokkaido and Yamagata
days
12.15-13.30
Lunch break
13.30-15.00 Bjarke Frellesvig: Europe and Japanese Linguistics
Jørn Borup: Spiritual and religious circulation between Japan and the
West in historical and contemporary perspective
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.45
Annette Thorsen Vilslev: Sōseki’s Theory of Literature, his novels, and
his readings of European literature and literary theory, Danish
inclusive
Gitte Marianne Hansen: Women in the World of Murakami Haruki
16.45-17.00 General discussion/Closing
Coffee break
Participants
Gunhild Borggreen
University of Copenhagen
Jørn Borup
University of Aarhus
Lisbeth Clausen
Copenhagen Business School
Bjarke Frellesvig The University of Oxford
Gitte Marianne Hansen Newcastle University
Annette Skovsted Hansen
University of Aarhus
Christian Morimoto Hermansen
Kwansei Gakuin University
Kyoko Murakami University of Copenhagen
Makoto Murai
Waseda University
Yoichi Nagashima
University of Copenhagen
Anemone Platz
University of Aarhus
Marie Højlund Roesgaard
University of Copenhagen
Yoshikazu Saho
Tokai University
Jens Sejrup
University of Copenhagen
Annette Thorsen Vilslev
University of Copenhagen
The conference is organized by
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
in cooperation with Asian Dynamics Initiative
and sponsored by The Japan Foundation