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)
    (Schedule)

Presentation

  • 1 August 2024: Panel by the Antiquarian and Evidence-based Scholarship Project : “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”). The Thirteenth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 13) in Surabaya, Indonesia.
  • 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.
  • Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Presentation “Graves as Material Manifestation of Intellectual Practices and Networks.” AAS 2024, Seattle. 15 March 2024.

  • Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Chair of Roundtable “New Digital Humanities Directions in East Asian Studies.” AAS 2024, Seattle. 14 March 2024.
  • 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