Katrin Gengenbach
Associate Director
Academic management
Raum 110
14195 Berlin
Sprechstunde
| since 5/2013 | Associate Director, Graduate School of East Asian Sudies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Committees and Commissions | |
| since 2017 |
Member of Selection Committee - Frauenfördermittel FB GeschKult (Funding for the advancement of women* at Dept. History and Cultural Studes), Freie Universität Berlin |
| since 2013 | Member of Joint Commission of Departments for Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Training Experience | |
| 11/2018 - 11/2019 | Mentor in the mentoring programme MentoringPlus Konstanz, Konstanz University |
| 07/2019 | Erasmus plus Staff Mobility Exchange, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan (OIC and IDAS) (7d) |
| 11/2019 | Quality Management in Doctoral Programmes (7h), evalag Mannheim |
| 5/2019 | Complexity Reduction in porject mamangament (8h), Freie Universität Berlin |
| 11/2018 | Career Advice for junior researchers (11h), ZWM Speyer |
| 3/2018 | Labour law for management (8h), Freie Universität Berlin |
| 4-9/2015 | Certificate in Science Management, Advanced Training Course (ZWM Speyer/ DFG) |
| Research and Work Experience | |
| 9/2012-4/2013 | Research Fellow, EAJS e.V. Office Representative (Council Assistant), FU Berlin |
| 11/2011 | Dr phil in Japanese Studies (University of Leipzig) |
| 4/2009-9/2010 |
Lecturer, Centre for East Asian Studies (OAZ), TU Dresden |
| 2009-2010 | Associate PhD fellow, DFG-Graduate Program "Critical Junctures of Globalization" (Research Academy Leipzig) |
| 2-3/2009 |
Visiting Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) |
| 3-9/2008 | Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo) |
| 10/2006-9/2007 | Visiting Researcher, Interfaculty Inititative for Information Studies, Tokyo University (DAAD fellowship) |
| since 2006 | freelance layout designer (publications) |
| 2005-2011 | Graduate Assistant (Japanese Studies; SFB 586 "Difference and Integration"; Research Academy Leipzig (RAL)), University of Leipzig |
| 1999-2005 | M.A. Japanese Studies/ Hispanic Studies, University of Leipzig |
Social and protest movements
Consumerism, Cultural Studies
Membership
EAJS European Association for Japanese Studies
VSJF Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
IPB Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
Publications
2013. (w/ Dorothea Mladenova and Felix Jawinski). "Politik, Energie und Kultur in Wechselwirkung: Wie sich Atomkraft in Japan durchsetzte". [The interdependence of politics, energy and culture: How nuclear energy was accepted in Japan]. In: Gebhardt, Lisette/ Richter, Steffi (ed.): Lesebuch Fukushima [Fukushima Reader]. Berlin, EBV: 32-53.
2013. Between Extremes of Poverty and Luxury: Sociocultural Dynamics of Consumption in Early Postwar Japan (1945-1959). Dissertation. Leipzig/Dresden, Qucosa electronic publication.
2012 (w/ Maria Trunk). "Vor und nach "Fukushima" - soziale Bewegungen in Japan nach der Jahrtausendwende." [Before and after Fukushima - social movements in Japan after the turn of the century]. In: Chiavacci, David/Wieczorek, Iris (ed): Japan-Jahrbuch 2012, München, iudicium.
2012. "Luxuskonsum in Japan. Herausforderung und Katalysator von Nationalisierung in der frühen Nachkriegszeit." [Consuming luxury in Japan. Challenges of nationalisation in early postwar Japan]. In: Kühschelm, Oliver/ Siegrist, Hannes/ Eder, Franz.X. (ed.): Konsum und Nation [Consumerism and the Nation]. Bielefeld, transcript.
2010. "Iwabuchi Kôichi". In: Middell, Matthias/ Engel, Ulf (ed.): Theoretiker der Globalisierung [Theorists on globalisation]. Leipzig, Universitätsverlag: 232-287.
Conference and Event Contributions
07.17.2019. Research in Germany Science Lunch panelist (PhD opportunities in Germany), International Convention of Asian Studies (ICAS 11), Leiden University, the Netherlands, July 15-19, 2019.
03.19-20.2018. Conference Co-Organizer and Panel Chair, 4th Annual Network of EXcellent Doctoral Training in Germany (NEXT), Freie Universität Berlin, March 19-20, 2018.
09.22.2017. Panel Chair/Discussant: Urban Futurologies. Cultural Typhoon in Europe Conference 2017, Nürnberg, September 21-23, 2017.
03.06.2017. "Cinéma Klassenkampf" Opening Film Screening: Talk and Discussion at Moviemiento, labournet.tv, Berlin.
08.28.2016.Discussant, UFSP-GEAS Publication Workshop, Freie Unviersität Berlin, October 27-28, 2016.
12.15.2015. Discussant, GEAS-UFSP Publication Workshop, University of Zurich, Switzerland, December 14-15, 2015.
06.16.2015. "Love Hotel" Film Screening: Talk and Discussion at NaTo, Cinemathèque Leipzig e.V., Leipzig.