Dear SSJ-forum list member,

the Department of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies at University of Vienna would like to draw your attention to the upcoming *u:japan lecture*:

*Christoph Brumann
**"From Private to Public and Back? The Townscape Councils of Kyoto"*

Date and time: Thursday 2021-05-27, *18:30**~**20:00*(CEST, UTC/GMT +2h)
The Zoom Meeting will be open from 18:15 (CEST).

In this virtual lecture, Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) will show that local townscape councils (/chiiki keikanzukuri kyōgikai/), despite the non-binding nature of the consultations, can achieve major improvements. When builders do not care for their local reputation and instead wish to profit from real estate speculation and hotel construction fed by the (pre-Covid) tourist boom, however, limitations are obvious.

For more information on speaker, abstract of the lecture and future events of *u:japan lectures*, please follow the link below:

https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/ <https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/>

Please read the "Instructions and Netiquette" before joining the lecture at the bottom of the homepage.

Join the lecture via Zoom Meeting:

Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/97261963074?pwd=Qk5IR1o0dTdiaTFZYm5PaGE2c004QT09 <https://univienna.zoom.us/j/97261963074?pwd=Qk5IR1o0dTdiaTFZYm5PaGE2c004QT09>
Meeting-ID: 972 6196 3074
PW: 666390

We are looking forward to host you!
With kind regards,
Bernhard Leitner and Florian Purkarthofer

PS: If you missed a lecture or want to review, head to our recorded lectures section: https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/records/ <https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/records/%20>

*u:japan lectures*

Department of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies

University of Vienna

E-mail: ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at <mailto:ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at>