PROGRAM
Location: Meiji Gakuin University Yokohama Campus, Brown Building (near main entrance)
Day 1: Saturday November 7
12:30 Participants gather; lunch bento
13:30 Presentation 1
“Reassembling Publicness in a Tokyo Shōtengai: Working Notes from Togoshi Ginza”
Sandy Jiyoon Kim, PhD candidate, Hawaii University
Mentor: Prof. Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Commentator: Marie Ulrich
15:00 Tea Break
15:15 Presentation 2
“The Liminality of Recovery: Namie after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster”
Yang Xue, PhD (U of Tokyo); independent scholar
Mentor: Prof. Andrea de Antoni, University of Kyoto
Commentator: Joshua Feng
16:45 Tea Break
17:00 Presentation 3
“Boundary-making and Belonging in a Kantō Team: Reflections from the Field”
Abigail Meyer, PhD candidate, University of Leeds; visiting researcher, Tōhoku University
Mentor: Prof. Gregory Poole, Dōshisha University
Commentator: Yang Xue
18:30 End of Day 1
19:30 Workshop dinner party
Day 2: Sunday November 8
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Presentation 4
“Formatting Jinmu: Myth, Memory, and Local Identity in Contemporary Miyazaki
Marie Ulrich, PhD (Kanazawa University); independent scholar
Mentor: Prof. Debra Occhi, Miyazaki International College
Commentator: Abigail Meyer
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Presentation 5
“Rotting Capital: Greenhouse Logistics, Just-in-Time Seasonality, and the Miyazaki Mango”
Joshua Feng, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Prof. Stephanie Assmann, University of Hyogo
Commentator: Sandy Jiyoon Kim
13:15 Lunch break
14:15 General Concluding Discussion
15:30 (or when participants agree) End of the Workshop
Program PDF: 2026 AJJ Fall Workshop Program
* Anyone is welcome to participate in the workshop, in person or online, but advance registration is required. The deadline is Friday November 6 at 5pm.
If you wish to participate in the workshop, please contact AJJ at this address:
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