18th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students

• Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo) – literature
  • Group: Andrea Boccardi, Gunde Dauksyte, Marta Ibáñez, Guy Pinnington 

• Ivona Barešová (Palacký University Olomouc) – linguistics
  • Group: Raluca-Maria Ciolca, Lorenzo Moretti, Dai Shi

• Marcos Pablo Centeno (Birkbeck, University of London; University of Valencia) – politics, gender & media representation
  • Group: Aline Dreher, Stevie Poppe, Jasmin Rückert, Stefanie Schwarte

• Nathan Edwin Hopson (University of Bergen) – contemporary society
  • Group: Christopher Chapman, Chiara Fusari, Cecilia Luzi, Ramona Rosalewski

• Ra Mason (University of East Anglia) – international relations, foreign policy
  • Group: András Bartók, Alice Dell'Era, Erik Isaksson, Marius Palz, Zdenka Peichl Kyselova  

• András Bartók (National University of Public Service, Ludovika) – The Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute in the regional Security Subcomplex of Northeast Asia – Japan, China’s Defense Policies, the role of Deterrence
• Andrea Boccardi (University of Leeds) ­– Subversive Voices in the Tropical Paradise: Alterity and Decolonial Narratives in Medoruma Shun’s Fiction
• Christopher Chapman (University of Oxford) – Healing the Wounded Heart: The Medicalization of Childhood in Japanese State Care
• Raluca-Maria Ciolca (Osaka University) – A systematic description of gradabiliy in Japanese
• Gunde Dauksyte (Universität Heidelberg) – Transcultural dynamics in memory literature of Japanese- and Lithuanian-speaking prisoners-of-war and political prisoners in the Soviet Union
• Alice Dell'Era (Florida International University) – Rethinking Burden-sharing in Alliance Relations: Japan’s Ideational and Normative Contributions to the US-Japan Alliance.
• Aline Dreher (Ruhr University Bochum) – Archeology and Politics in the Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1931
• Chiara Fusari (University of Zurich) – The anti-sexual violence movement in contemporary Japan: between victims' support, education and lobbying
• Marta Ibáñez (Universidad de Sevilla) – The geisha and the Good Wife: An analysis about two femeninity figures in XX century Japan through Enchi Fumiko's works
• Erik Isaksson (Freie Universität Berlin) – Normative Power Japan? Narratives of Universal Values in Japanese Foreign Policy 2006-2020
• Cecilia Luzi (Freie Universität Berlin) – Finding home in rural Japan: contemporary urban-rural migrants in Kyūshū
• Lorenzo Moretti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) – Role language and character language of anthropomorphic non-human characters in Japanese video games
• Marius Palz (University of Oslo) – Human-Dugong Relations and Environmental Activism in the Ryūkyū Archipelago
• Zdenka Peichl Kyselova (Palacký University Olomouc) – Human rights in Japan’s domestic order and foreign policy. Case study of China-Japan relations
• Guy Pinnington (University of Cambridge) – Zainichi Korean writers as thinkers and storytellers: An analysis of the interrelations between Kim Sok-pom, Lee Hoesong, and Yang Seok-il as writers and public intellectuals
• Stevie Poppe (KU Leuven) – Historical revisionism, revision history and alternative online media eco-systems in Japan: a socio-political analysis of nationalist contestation and political propaganda in the digital age
• Ramona Rosalewski (Heinrich-Heine University) – The institutional work of actors in the Japanese Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) sector: a discursive-institutional approach
• Jasmin Rückert (Heinrich Heine University) – Gender and Fascism in Japanese Propaganda
• Stefanie Schwarte (LMU München) – Female Political Representation in Japan: Politicians as agents of gender equality at the local level
• Dai Shi (University of Oxford) – No and Ga in Old Japanese: a synchronic and diachronic study

• Ivona Barešová (workshop director)
• Tereza Nakaya, Halina Zawiszová (workshop assistants)
• David Grant, Patrick Kandráč, Jakub Martinec, Radek Pazderka, Jana Sedláčková (doctoral student assistants)
• Other staff members from the Department of Asian Studies

• Workshop director: Ivona Barešová (email)
• Contact person in case of any questions regarding local organization: Halina Zawiszová (email)
• EAJS office (e.g., for questions regarding reimbursement procedure): Lorenz Denninger (email)

Please take care of arranging your round trip to Olomouc yourself. EAJS will reimburse travel costs up to 400 EUR, given that participants choose the least expensive reasonable mode of transportation, such as discount fare economy flight or standard class train or bus, etc. Please make sure to retain your travel documents in the original. After the workshop, the EAJS Office will send you a reimbursement form, which you need to fill out and send back together with the travel documents so that you can be reimbursed.

The accommodation is taken care of for the duration of the workshop, i.e., for 23–26 August 2022.

The doctoral student participants are staying at Hotel Palác at 1. Máje 869/27, 779 00 Olomouc (map). The hotel is situated 1,2 km from the Olomouc main train station (Olomouc hlavní nádraží) and can be easily accessed by walking along a single street (10–15 min.). Alternatively, participants can make use of public transport (see Transport for details). The tram stop closest to the hotel is called U Dómu. Trams no. 2 and 4 stop there. The ride from the main train station takes about 5 minutes (see this map for names of stations that come prior to U Dómu). To reach the hotel, participants need to walk some 150 meters back in the direction the tram came from. 

• the reception is open from 7AM till 10PM
• standard check-in is after 2PM (and no later than 10PM) 
• standard check-out is before 10AM (and no earlier than 7AM)
• you can store your luggage at the hotel for several hours after you check out
• breakfast is included 

The senior advisors are staying at Theresian Hotel at Javoříčská 5, 779 00 Olomouc (map). The hotel is located round the corner from a tram/bus stop called Okresní soud. Due to construction works, there are now two fast and easy public transport options that the advisors can make use of to get to the hotel from the Olomouc main train station (Olomouc hlavní nádraží). The advisors can either take bus no. X or tram no. 4. The ride on bus no. X takes 7 minutes; the ride on tram no. 4 takes 10 minutes (see this map for current bus/tram routes). Please see Transport below for more details. 

• the reception is open 24/7
• standard check-in is after 2PM  
• standard check-out is before 10AM 
• breakfast is included 
• entrance to on-site fitness is included
• entrance to on-site wellness centre is available at a reduced price

Both senior advisors and student participants will be picked up from their hotel before the welcome dinner on Tuesday and before the first sessions on Wednesday. Should you have any questions regarding the transportation, do not hesitate to contact us. 

Meals for the duration of the workshop are covered. We will arrange and cover the welcome dinner on Tuesday evening, breakfast, lunch, dinner and refreshments on Wednesday and Thursday, and breakfast on Friday, after which the workshop will officially end.

The workshop program will begin with a welcome dinner on the evening of Tuesday, 23 August at 19:00 (CET). The dinner will take place at a restaurant called Potrefená Husa at Michalská 2, 779 00 Olomouc (map). You will be guided there by our doctoral student assistants. Therefore, we ask doctoral student participants to be at the reception of their hotel at 18:30 and advisors to be at the reception of their hotel at 18:40 to meet them.

Please take breakfast on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at your hotel. 

On Wednesday and Thursday, we will take our

• lunch at a restaurant Plán B at Palachovo náměstí 1, 779 00 Olomouc (map) and
• dinner at a restaurant Café Restaurant Caesar at Horní náměstí 583, 779 00 Olomouc (map)

You will be asked to choose your meals from a set menu prior to coming to Olomouc. Please check your email regularly.  

Refreshments will be provided during coffee breaks on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Participants should inform the EAJS Office in case of dietary restrictions or preferences (e.g., vegetarian).

As of June 2022, there are no longer any coronavirus restrictions for entry into and stay in the Czech Republic. Please check the requirements issued by your own countries as well as transit countries. Should the situation in the Czech Republic change, we will let you know. 

In order to ensure that everyone stays healthy and feels safe, we would like to ask all participants to bring their own masks and wear them when indoors especially if not feeling well or not feeling safe because of week immune system, etc. Before the start of the first workshop session, the participants will further be provided with antigen tests. Those who will not agree with the testing and those who will get a positive result will be asked to return to their hotel room and participate in the workshop via Zoom. 

WiFi access at the workshop venue is available via Eduroam network as well as via a guest account (log-in information will be provided). WiFi is also available at your accommodation and at most restaurants, coffee shops, long-distance trains, etc.

Mobile phone operators in the Czech Republic use standard European GSM bands (1800 MHz, 900 MHz). If you come from outside Europe, you may need a tri-band phone. No roaming fees among EU member states. The country calling code for the Czech Republic is +420. 

In the Czech Republic, standard European sockets CEE 7/5 (230 V/50Hz) are used. Please bring an adapter with you if you wish to use appliances/plugs that do not work with these socket types/voltages.

The Czech crown (koruna, CZK, Kč) is the official currency in the Czech Republic. The approximate exchange rate is 25 CZK / 1 EUR (as of June 2022). Credit cards and debit cards are widely accepted, so there is little need to exchange your money or withdraw cash. 

August is usually the hottest month of the year for the Czech Republic. However, the temperatures may vary widely, with one week boasting tropical weather while another week being rainy and somewhat cold. Please check the weather forecast before packing.