Archive

2024

Symposiums & Workshops

  • Showcasing the Japan Biographical Database (JBDB)
    Date: November 9, 2024
    Time: 10:00 – 17:30
    Place: Sophia University, Bldg. 2, 4th Floor, Room 414 and Zoom (in-person and online)
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Presentation

  • 1 August 2024: Panel by the Antiquarian and Evidence-based Scholarship Project at ICAS13 in Surabaya, Indonesia: “Alternative Channels of Knowledge Production, Transmission, and Circulation in Tokugawa Japan.” The panel is sponsored by the Sophia University Institute of Comparative
    Culture (Research Unit “Network Studies”).
  • 10 July 2024: Chair of roundtable, Publishing for Global Asias: The Role of Academic Journals Today. AAS-in-Asia 2024 Conference, Yogyakarta.
  • 10 July 2024: Presentation in panel Premodern Global Asias: Continental Ideals and Domestic Applications in Tokugawa Japan. The panel is sponsored by the Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (Research Unit “Network Studies”). AAS-in-Asia 2024 Conference, Yogyakarta.
  • 15 March 2024: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Presentation “Graves as Material Manifestation of Intellectual Practices and Networks. AAS 2024, Seattle.
  • 14 March 2024: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Chair of Roundtable “New Digital Humanities Directions in East Asian Studies.” AAS 2024, Seattle.
  • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: 「デジタルで日本史を紐解く歴史研究の今」 @ ウェビナーイベント「SEカレッジITfestival2024」 2024年2月8日 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0tfSC1iOSs)

2023

Symposiums & Workshops

    • Innovative Research Methods Making Use of Databases, Workshop of ‘Kyoto-Osaka Cultural Salons’ Project
      Date: July 29, 2023
      Place: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) and Zoom (in-person and online) 
    • Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward
      Date: March 14-16, 2023
      Place: Harvard University

    Presentation

    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Approaches to History: Japan Biographical Database (JBDB),” at 10th international conference “Japan: Pre-modern, Modern and Contemporary” Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 1 Sep. 2023
    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Documenting Ritual in a Tokugawa Period Household,” in panel Creating Connections: Collecting and Sharing Data Now and Then; EAJS, Ghent, 19 August 2023
    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Making Use of JDBD” at Workshop of “Kyoto-Osaka Cultural Salons,” Ritsumeikan University, Art Research Center, 23 July 2023
    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Confucian Rites Performed in a Scholar’s Household,” in panel Under Confucian Eaves: Birth, Age, Illness, and Death During the Tokugawa Period; ASCJ, Sophia University, 1 July 2023
    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: (Discussant) NIJL meeting “The Future of Biography in Studies of Premodern Japan”, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Boston, 17 March 2023
    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Japan Biographical Database” at Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward , Harvard University, 14 March 2023
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      2022

      Symposiums & Workshops

      Presentation

        2021

        Symposiums & Workshops

        Presentation

        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: ”Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database” (Livestream / Virtual) at CJS Lecture Series, 9 December 2021.
        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: ”Family Networks in the Tokugawa Period” (Zoom) at Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW, 11 November 2021.
        • EAJS2021: Publishing in peer reviewed journals, 25 August 2021 (Youtube)
        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Studying Networks in Japanese History: The Japan Biographical Database.” (International Webinar) at Seshadpripuram Evening Degree College (Bengaluru, India), 5 April 2021.

          2020

          Presentation

          • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan” (Podcast with Chief Editor Bill Mihalopoulus from Japan Review), 18 December 2020.
          • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan” at European Research Day and Night, 7 December 2020.
          • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：「手紙でつながるということ: 只野真葛と頼静（梅颸）の場合」at 日本近世文学会オンラインシンポジウム「つながる喜び――江戸のリモート・コミュニケーション」, November 14, 2020.
          • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan”, boot talk at Sophia Research Week, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), November 7, 2020.
          • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：Particiaption in panel「頼山陽の国際的評価：日本外史がつなぐ世界と日本」at 頼山陽史跡資料館25周年記念シンポジウム (Hiroshima Japan), November 3, 2020.
          • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：Particiaption in the Director’s roundtable『女たちのひょうご—千姫から緒方八重まで—』at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History (Himeji, Japan), October 31, 2020.
          • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Cultural Crossroads: Depictions of and by Women in the Nineteenth Century” at Japanese Travelers at the Golden Gate: How Japan’s First Foreign Mission Changed the Course of History, University of San Francisco (San Francisco, USA), February 28, 2020.
          • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：「只野真葛（1763-1825）と学術ネットワークの欠如について」at 国学院大学日本文化研究所主催国際研究フォーラム、国学院大学 (Tokyo, Japan), February 2, 2020.

            2019

            Presentation

            • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Introducing the JBDB” at DADH 2019, National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei, Taiwan), December 5, 2019.
            • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “New Research Infrastructures” at The Digital Transformation: Implications for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, DIJ (Tokyo, Japan), Septemver 24, 2019.
            • Michael A. Fuller, Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Localization in the Context of Japan of a Large-Scale Relational Biographical Database on the Model of the China Biographical Database,” at Ninth Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH2019): “Localization in Global DH”, Kansai University (Osaka, Japan), August 29 – 31, 2019.
            • Leo Born: “Nutzerorientierte Visualisierungen und Analysen mit der JBDB. Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen,” at Digital Approaches in Japanese Studies 4000, Frankfurt University (Frankfurt, Germany), August 20 – 21, 2019.
            • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: Presentation of JBDB at Kamigata Salon Culture Project, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), July 31, 2019.
            • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: Presentation of JBDB at AAS Digital Technologies Expo (Denver, CO), March 23, 2019.

              2018

              Symposiums & Workshops

              Presentation

              • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：「日本の人名データベース(JBDB): 懐徳堂をめぐる親族関係を例として」、北京外国語大学日本学研究センター (Beijing, China), November 23, 2018.
              • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：「上智大学における資料保存と研究・教育での活用」at 南山アーカイブズ主催講演会、南山大学 (Nagoya, Japan), November 21, 2018.
              • Leo Born: “Leveraging the Japanese Biographical Database as a digital resource for education and research,” at Eighth Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH2018): “Leveraging Open Data”, Hitotsubashi-Hall (Tokyo, Japan), September 9 – 11, 2018.
              • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “経済思想史と徳川後期の人的交流データベース”, at 第8回 西日本例会・日本経済思想史学会（2018年度）, Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan), April 14, 2018.
              • Leo Born, Yūsuke Asano: “Japanese Biographical Database: Application in Historical Social Network Visualization,” at Third International Symposium: Digital Humanities and Databases, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), March 16, 2018.
              • Leo Born: “上智大学「日本の人名データベース」の構築について,” at 23rd Symposium on Humanities and Databases, Osaka Prefecture University (Osaka, Japan), March 3, 2018.
              • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “A Woman’s Network around 1800”, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA), February 22, 2018.

                2017

                Presentation

                • Leo Born: “Datenbankdesign und Webapplikation der JBDB: Der Versuch einer Zwischenbilanz,” at Digital Approaches in Japanese Studies 2.0, Frankfurt University (Frankfurt, Germany), November 30 – December 1, 2017.
                • ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ：「江戸時代の儒者のネットワークについて」at 第五回日本学ハイエンドフォーラム－新形勢下の日中経済の協力と展望、山東師範大学千仏山キャンパス (Jinan, China), September 16, 2017.
                • Leo Born, Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “SNAとデータベース作り。江戸時代を中心に,” at Digital Approaches in Japanese Studies, Frankfurt University (Frankfurt, Germany), May 25 – 26, 2017.

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                  2016

                  Presentation

                  • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Knowing the [Confucian] Way and the Creation of a Network,” at Towards a Digital Eurasia: Databases and Computational Methods for the History of Asia and the Middle East, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), June 8, 2016.

                  2014

                  Symposiums & Workshops

                  • 2nd International Symposium (bilingual program)
                    Date: December 20, 2014
                    Time: 10:00 – 18:00
                    Place: Sophia University, Bldg 12-102

                  2013

                  Symposiums & Workshops

                  • 1st International Symposium
                    Date: June 8, 2013
                    Time: 10:00 – 18:00
                    Place: Sophia University, Bldg 12-102

                    Presentation

                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Knowing the (Confucian) Way,” presented at European Association for Tokugawa Studies (Kienzheim, France), December 2013.
                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Tadano Makuzu and the Lack of the Right Network,” presented at the International Symposium Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan, Sophia University, June 8, 2013.
                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Network Studies,” Lecture presented at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2013.
                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: Discussant to panel “Chasing fireflies: Glowing networks in post/modern Japanese art and literature,” AAS, San Diego, March 25, 2013.
                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Social Network analysis applied to the study of late Tokugawa society.” Paper presented at Symposium in Honor of Herman Ooms, UCLA, March 16, 2013.
                    • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Social Network analysis applied to the dissemination of economic thought in the late Tokugawa society.” Paper presented at 国際研究集会 日本の経済思想, Kokushikan Daigaku, March 6, 2013.

                      2012

                      Symposiums & Workshops

                      • 5th workshop
                        Date: October 20, 2012
                        Time: 13:30 – 16:30
                        Place: Zoom
                      • 4th workshop
                        Date: April 14, 2012
                        Time: 13:30 – 17:00
                        Place: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3rd Floor, 301

                        Presentation

                        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: (Sophia Festival 2012) Introduction of our project to the University, October 31, 2012.
                        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Social Network Analysis Applied to Tokugawa Sources.” Approaches to the Study of Japanese Culture and Thought in the Early Modern Age. Frankfurt, September 20 – 21, 2012.
                        • Bettina Gramlich-Oka: “Applying social network analysis to the Edo period: Kudo Heisuke and his network,” International Conference Japanese Economic Thought: Time and Space, Charles University in Prague, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), August 27 – 29, 2012.

                          2011

                          Symposiums & Workshops

                          • 3rd workshop
                            Date: June 11, 2011
                            Time: 13:30 – 17:00
                            Place: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3rd Floor, 301
                          • 2nd workshop
                            Date: January 15, 2011
                            Time: 13:30 – 17:00
                            Place: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3rd Floor, 301

                            2010

                            Symposiums & Workshops

                            • 1st workshop
                              Date: November 20, 2010
                              Time: 13:30 – 17:00
                              Place: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3rd Floor, 301