Location: Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

Department of Sociology Conference room - M-523

 

9:40-10:00  Coffee

 

10:00-10:10 Opening

Labour and care (1)

10:10-10:40 Charles Weathers, Osaka City University

Japan’s Alternative Labor Activists in the Era of Neoliberalism

10:40-11:10 Scott North, Osaka University

Karoshi, Worker Hopes and Japan’s Cultures of Care

 

Coffee break

 

Labour and care (2)

11:30-12:00 Steven Fedorowicz, Kansai Gaidai University

The Hope for Medical Interpretation for Deaf People

12:00-12:30 Ieva Tretjuka, University of Pittsburgh/Osaka University

Hope against Hope: Science and Labor in Contemporary Japan

 

Lunch

 

Aging and hope

13:30-14:00 Ender Ricart, University of Chicago

Hope of Prevention, Burden of Care: Temporalities of Japan’s Aging Society Crisis

14:00-14:30 Iza Kavedžija, Osaka University

An Attitude of Hope: Crafting Networks of Support in an Aging Community

 

Coffee break

 

Ritual, transcendence and hope

14:50-15:20 Jason Danely, Rhode Island College

Transience and Transcedence in an Aging Japan

15:20-15:50 Stephen Robertson

Building a Mystery: Hope and Identity in the Pipe-Porridge Ritual of Suwa Taisha

 

Tea break 

 

Family

16:20-16:50 Saori Yasumoto, Osaka University

Balancing the ‘Father’ and the ‘Worker’: A Content Analysis of Letters Written by Fathers Who Took a Parental Leave

16:50-17:20 Laura Dales, University of Western Australia

‘It Would be Good if There Was the Right Person (Ii Hito Ga Itara…)’: Hope towards – and beyond - Marriage

17:20-17:50 Closing discussion