2023
AntSoc: Anthropology and Sociology Section:
Navigating the New Normal: Coping with uncertainty, precarity and change in a (dis)connected Japan:
Florian Purkarthofer & Susanne Klien (Section Convenors) | 17 – 20 Aug 2023 | 17th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies | Ghent University | Belgium | https://eajs.eu/2023-sections
2022
On the Road (Again): Plädoyer für kritisch-involvierte Feldforschung an Orten des alltäglichen Lebens und gegen einen misanthropischen Wissenschaftsbetrieb
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 25 Aug 2022 | 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanolog*innentag | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | Germany | https://www.modernes-japan.hhu.de/japanologentag
Tōno–Tōkyō und retour: Reflexionen über räumliche und geographische Ausdrucksformen sozialer Differenzierung in japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur
Florian Purkarthofer & Tamara Kamerer (Universität Wien) | 25 Aug 2022 | 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanolog*innentag | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | Germany | https://www.modernes-japan.hhu.de/japanologentag
Post-Human anthropology of the senses: An attempt to disentangle Tokyo’s localities from jumbled line(s), split screens, and (dis-)connections
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 08 Jul 2022 | 31st JAWS Conference | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | https://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/gregal/en/content/jaws-conference-barcelona-2022
Gentrification or what? Refining Gentrification in the Context of Japanese Cities
Heide Imai & Florian Purkarthofer (Speakers) | 17 May 2022 | Neighborhood Transformation in East Asian Cities: Is “Gentrification” the Right Frame of Reference? | Chiba, Japan | https://ukna.asia/gentrification
2021
To Whom It May Concern: Rethinking the Questions of ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ Through Sensation, Affect and Involvement
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 7 Dec 2021 | Olympic Games and Global Cities | Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS | Paris, France | https://oggc.hypotheses.org/olympic-games-and-global-cities-international-symposium
Trains of Thought: Inquiries into the Social Space of eki-mae through the Everyday Practices of Waiting, Meeting and Leaving
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 28 Aug 2021 | EAJS 2021 – 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies | Ghent University | Ghent, Belgium | https://nomadit.co.uk/eajs/eajs2021/
2020
The Narrow Streets Behind the Doors of Perception: Unscrambling Everyday Urban Space Through Senses and Discourses
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 27 Feb 2020 | Cultures of Sense in Japan | The University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia
2019
Shifts in Urban Transformation: Tokyo’s Architecture and Urban Structure Analyzed Through the 2020 Olympic Games
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | VSJF Annual Conference 2019 “Metropolitan Japan in Historical and Contemporary Perspective” | Ruhr University Bochum | Bochum, Germany
The City Behind the Screens: Digitally Shared Perceptions and Networks of Imagined Tastes and Smells
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 16 Apr 2019 | JAWS Workshop 2019 | Aarhus University | Aarhus, Denmark | https://japananthropologyworkshop.org/conference-report-jaws-2019-at-aarhus-university/
Tokyo Topoi – Was urbane Orte ausmacht und was aus Orten gemacht wird
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 13 Feb 2019 | OAG Tokyo
2018
“Inner city life, inner city pressure” Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 12 Dec 2018 | DIJ Social Science Study Group | DIJ Tokyo
Home is where the hatred is: Rendering ‘the local’ through proximity and affect in urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 19 Oct 2018 |
From Transport to Movement and Noise to Sound: Researching Western Tokyo through Conflicting Auditory Sensations
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 14 Sep 2018 |
Multisensorische Räume im Zeitalter des Virtuellen: Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion von urbanen Räumen in Zeiten vermehrter und vermischter Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 29 Aug 2018 |
Communicating Public Spaces – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 23 Feb 2018 |
2017
Die Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit: Wahrnehmungen und Konstruktionen von urbanen Räumen im gegenwärtigen Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 30 Nov 2017 |
Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker), Peter Mühleder (Speaker) | 1 Nov 2017 |
“Space Oddity – Fragmented Discourses on Socially Constructed Urban Spaces in Western Tokyo”
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 1 Nov 2017 |
Utopian Critique and Critical Urban Utopias – about the paradox of utopian critique (not) becoming a lived urban utopia
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 23 Sep 2017 |
Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 29 Aug 2017 |
Whose Games? Whose City? Whom should we ask? – Questioning contemporary forms of decision making and public participation in urban planning projects
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 10 Jun 2017 | London, Rio, Tokyo Olympics Symposium | Goldsmiths, University of London | https://goldolympics.wordpress.com/
2015
“Shimokita Voice” but Meidaimae Silence? – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 24 Sep 2015 → 26 Sep 2015 | 5th International Postgraduate Conference at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University: „Whose Voice? Theory & Practice“ | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | SA
Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 26 Aug 2015 → 28 Aug 2015 | Japanologentag 2015 | LMU München
2014
Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) | 28 Jun 2014 → 29 Jun 2014 | Cultural Typhoon | ICU Tokyo
Organized Conferences & Workshops
Theorie Café: Discussions about Area Studies and Theory
Florian Purkarthofer (Organiser) | 3 Nov 2017
Cultural Typhoon in Europe 2016: Places and Spaces of Cultural Production in East Asia
Florian Purkarthofer (Co-Organiser) | 22 Sept 2016 → 25 Sept 2016
https://culturaltyphooneurope.wordpress.com/p1/
Hyôron 評論: Kritik zwischen Populärkultur und Wissenschaft
Florian Purkarthofer (Co-Organiser) | 15 March 2013 → 16 March 2013