Program

THURSDAY DECEMBER 19

VENUE ROZIER (2.1)

10:00-10:45

Keynote

Sakaue Yasuhiro (Hitotsubashi University): The dominant narrative and the forgotten and hidden side of Japanese Olympic history

Coffee Break

11:15-12:30

Ishizaka Yuji (Nara Women’s University): Olympic Legacies: Lessons from the 1998 Winter Olympics

Okada Kei (Ritsumeikan University): Sexual Gentrification and Tokyo Olympic Games. Changes in the Policy for Sexual Minorities between 1964-2020 in Japan

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:15

Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University): The Uncanny Road to the Deep North: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Civil Protest, and the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

Christian Tagsold (Düsseldorf University): The Cook, the Village, and his Former TLO: A Partly Personal Take on the J. Village.

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:00

Robin Kietlinski (City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College): The Olympics and Japan’s Environment: 1940-2020.

Dennis Frost (Kalamazoo College): Moving Experiences: Questioning Inspirational Discourses and Paralympic Sports in Japan.

 

FRIDAY DECEMBER 20

VENUE ROZIER (2.1)

10:00-11:15

Wada Koichi (Ferris University): Ancient Olympic Games as Knowledge and Culture in the Early Meiji Era

Mizuide Koki (SPS Research Fellow/Kyoto University): The Myth of the 1940 Olympic Game: Who talks about the Great Kanto Earthquake?

11:15-13:00  Coffee Break and visit to library and Institute of Japanese Studies

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Yabu Kotaro (Sendai University): Arts serving and challenging the 1964 Olympic Narrative: Arts in the 1964 Olympic Game

Matsushima Tsuyoshi (Ritsumeikan University): What is Olympic ideology? – The impact on Japanese rugby culture

Deirdre Sneep (University Duisburg-Essen): Barrier Free for the Future: The branding of ‘Barrier Free Cities’ and changing views on aging in Japan.

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 Round Table and Final Discussion