Dear members of the SSJ mailing list,

The VSJF Technology Section kindly invites you to the next online meeting on "Technology and Society in Japan" (Fri: Nov 03, 2023, 09:00h-12:30h Berlin // 17:00h-20:30h Tokyo). 

This online meeting takes place vis-a-vis the "VSJF Jahrestagung am JDZB Berlin" (Nov 03-05 2023). 

Please find all necessary information below.

Warm regards

Cosima Wagner & Susanne Brucksch

 

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Online Workshop "Technology & Society in Japan" (VSJF Technology Section 2023)

Date:  November 03, 2023 (Fri), Berlin 9:00 - 12:30 // Tokyo 17:00 - 20:30 (文化の日）

Venue:  Online Meeting (a zoom link will be provided shortly before the meeting)

Registration: Please register via technology@vsjf.net 

ORGANISERS: Dr Susanne Brucksch (assoc. prof.), Teikyo University

                          Dr Cosima Wagner, Freie Universität Berlin

SUPPORTER:  Assoc. Prof. Naonori Kodate, University College Dublin

Please find further information below and on the VSJF website (https://vsjf.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/vsjf-fg-technik-2023-programme.pdf)

 

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PROGRAM

17:00 Tokyo // 09:00 Berlin: GREETINGS and OPENING REMARKS
Cosima Wagner, Freie Universität Berlin 

 

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17:10 Tokyo // 09:10 Berlin/Zurich: SESSION A:  Reflections on Health Technologies from Denmark

INCENTIVE TALK:  Ethical and methodological dilemmas in social science interventions: Careful engagements as composition of telecare services
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen, Faculty of Health and Social Science, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) 

 

Moderator: Susanne Brucksch, Teikyo University 
Q&A 

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18:15 Tokyo // 10:15 Berlin: SESSION B:  Acceptance, User Images and Technology in Japan

 

Professional Women and Elder Care in Contemporary Japan: Anxiety and the Move Toward Technocare
Anne Aronsson, Yale University 

 

"Social" robots forming sociality? Analysis of relationality in long-term care practices involving robots, a Japanese example
Yuko Tamaki-Welply, EHESS

 

Analyzing the redistribution of work tasks between humans and robots in the domain of care work. Cases from Germany and Japan
Kevin Wiggert, Technical University Berlin

Moderator: Naonori Kodate, University College Dublin
Q&A 

 

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20:00 Tokyo // 12:00 Berlin  SESSION C: OPEN EXCHANGE on the impact of AI and ChatGPT on research and/or teaching of Japanese Studies
Moderator: Cosima Wagner, Freie Universität Berlin

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This workshop is kindly supported by:
UCD Centre for Japanese Studies, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
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