VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan) Conference 2023

The registration is open until 29th Oct.

Registration open! 2023 VSJF Annual Conference 3rd-5th Nov. in Berlin (JDZB)

This year’s VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan) Conference theme is “Labor and (im)mobility in Japan and East and Southeast Asia: Transnational, regional and rural-urban perspectives”.

Registration

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 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.

Detailed conference program

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