THURSDAY DECEMBER 19
VENUE ROZIER (2.1)
10:00-10:45
Keynote
Sakaue Yasuhiro (Hitotsubashi University): The dominant narrative and the forgotten and hidden side of Japanese Olympic history
Coffee Break
11:15-12:30
Ishizaka Yuji (Nara Women’s University): Olympic Legacies: Lessons from the 1998 Winter Olympics
Okada Kei (Ritsumeikan University): Sexual Gentrification and Tokyo Olympic Games. Changes in the Policy for Sexual Minorities between 1964-2020 in Japan
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15
Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University): The Uncanny Road to the Deep North: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Civil Protest, and the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Christian Tagsold (Düsseldorf University): The Cook, the Village, and his Former TLO: A Partly Personal Take on the J. Village.
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:00
Robin Kietlinski (City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College): The Olympics and Japan’s Environment: 1940-2020.
Dennis Frost (Kalamazoo College): Moving Experiences: Questioning Inspirational Discourses and Paralympic Sports in Japan.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 20
VENUE ROZIER (2.1)
10:00-11:15
Wada Koichi (Ferris University): Ancient Olympic Games as Knowledge and Culture in the Early Meiji Era
Mizuide Koki (SPS Research Fellow/Kyoto University): The Myth of the 1940 Olympic Game: Who talks about the Great Kanto Earthquake?
11:15-13:00 Coffee Break and visit to library and Institute of Japanese Studies
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00
Yabu Kotaro (Sendai University): Arts serving and challenging the 1964 Olympic Narrative: Arts in the 1964 Olympic Game
Matsushima Tsuyoshi (Ritsumeikan University): What is Olympic ideology? – The impact on Japanese rugby culture
Deirdre Sneep (University Duisburg-Essen): Barrier Free for the Future: The branding of ‘Barrier Free Cities’ and changing views on aging in Japan.
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:15 Round Table and Final Discussion