JUNE 1 - Opening
12:30–13:00 Registration
13:00–13:10 Welcome
Haruka OBA - Kurume University
Marion ROMBERG - Austrian Academy of Sciences
13:10–13:20
Historiography in Japan and Austria
Yoshihisa HATTORI - Kyoto University
13:20–14:05
"Otherness” as a Category for the Historical Research of Interculturality in Early Modern Times
Arno STROHMEYER - Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Salzburg
14:05–14:15 Short Break
Panel I: Jesuits and their World Mission
Chair: Michael HARBSMEIER - Roskilde University
14:15–15:00
Perceiving Religion and Politics as Interrelated Strands of Encountering Non-European Others
Tobias WINNERLING - University Düsseldorf
15:00–15:45
Implacable Tyrants and Cold Scythians: Japanese and Turkish Antagonists in Jesuit School Literature
Akihiko WATANABE - Otsuma Women‘s University, Tokyo
15:45–16:00 Coffee Break
Panel II: Exotism in Theatre
Chair: Hitomi Omata RAPPO - Sophia University (PD), Tokyo
16:00–16:45
The Ottoman Empire as Presented by European (Music) Theatre
Michael HÜTTLER - Don Juan Archive, Vienna
16:45–17:30
The Depiction of Japanese Villains in Jesuit Drama
Haruka OBA - Kurume University
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JUNE 2
Panel III: Otherness in Travelogues
Chair: Michael HÜTTLER - Don Juan Archive, Vienna
09:00–09:45
Japan and the Ottoman Empire in Travelogues. New Possibilities of Semi-Automatized Text Analysis
Doris GRUBER - Austrian Academy of Sciences
09:45–10:30
Comparing Hospitalities: What Travel Accounts can tell us about the Modes of Interaction with Visitors and Strangers in Various Civilisations
Michael HARBSMEIER - Roskilde University
10:30–10:45 Coffee Break
Panel IV: Circulating Knowledge by Images and Goods
Chair: Tobias WINNERLING - University Düsseldorf
10:45–11:30
Curious Goods and Merchant’s Stories. On the Role of Merchandise in Early Modern European Perceptions of Japan
Susanne FRIEDRICH - LMU Munich
11:30–12:15
The ‚East‘ in South German Parish Churches in the 18th Century
Marion ROMBERG - Austrian Academy of Sciences
12:15–13:30 Lunch Break
Panel V: Beyond the German Speaking Lands
Chair: Doris GRUBER - Austrian Academy of Sciences
13:30–14:15
Japan and the Orient in Early Modern France – A ‚Living Antiquity“?
Hitomi Omata RAPPO - Sophia University (PD), Tokyo
14:15–15:00
“How to Convert the Heathens“: Japanese Image of the Dutch Reformed Theologian Johannes Hoornbeck (1617–1666)
Genji YASHURI - Musashi University (PD), Tokyo
15:00–15:15 Coffee Break
Conclusion
15:15–17:30
Arno STROHMEYER - Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Salzburg
Haruka OBA - Kurume University