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:

Chris McMorran
"Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan"

Date and time: Thursday, October 13, 2022, 18:30~20:00 (CEST, UTC/GMT +2h)
The Zoom Meeting will be open from 18:15 (CET).
Max. 50 participants (on site) + max. 300 participants (online)

In this virtual lecture, Chris McMorran (National University of Singapore) will share the behind-the-scenes work that keeps a ryokan running smoothly. He draws on nearly two decades of research in and around Kurokawa, including a year spent welcoming guests, carrying luggage, scrubbing baths, cleaning rooms, washing dishes, and talking with co-workers and owners about their jobs, relationships, concerns, and aspirations. He discusses how Kurokawa's ryokan mobilize hospitality to create a rural escape in contemporary Japan, emphasizing the strictly gendered work found in the ryokan, as well as the generational work of ryokan owners vs. the daily embodied work of their employees. Chris shares the realities of ryokan work--celebrated, messy, ignored, exploitative, and liberating--and introduce the people who keep inns running by making guests feel at home.

This will be a hybrid event, both live at the Campus of the University of Vienna and online via Zoom. Live participation is available for a limited number of 50 people. For more information on the speaker, abstract of the lecture and future events of u:japan lectures, please follow the link below::

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

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

Place & Precautions:
LIVE @ Campus of the University of Vienna
Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies
Seminarraum JAP 1, 2K-EG-21, Ground floor to the left
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus), 1090 Vienna, Austria
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=23548#c646040

Please bear in mind, that strict Covid19-precautions are enforced, therefore bring and wear a FFP2-mask and comply to university's house rules. Please visit this link for university's special and general information regarding the current restrictions:
https://www.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/further-information/coronavirus/

Join the lecture via Zoom Meeting:
Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63436858738?pwd=bFFNZk02blJoWGlZRDRscWducE5nZz09
Meeting-ID: 634 3685 8738 | 582387

We look forward to your participation!
With kind regards,
Florian Purkarthofer and Ralf Windhab

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

u:japan lectures
Department of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies
University of Vienna
E-mail: ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at