Iaponica Brunensia 2023 - report and gallery
A report and gallery from our 2023 conference.
September 12 – 13, 2025
Iaponica Brunensia is a biannual Japanese studies conference held by the Department of Japanese studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, that has been hosting talks on a variety of topics from researchers from all over the world since 2015. The 6th edition of the conference is titled Japan Visible - Japan invisible, and with the kind support of The Japan Foundation, we have been able to invite two keynote speakers.
The conference will take place mainly in the auditorium D22 at Faculty of Arts at Arne Nováka 1, Brno.
Expand the boxes below to see the program of the conference. You can download the pdf version here. The book of abstracts can be downloaded here.
Public links for streaming via MS Teams from auditorium D22: Day I, Day II
8:30 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:55 Conference Opening (D22)
Keynote speech I (D22)
10:00 – 11:00 Advancement of Language Services in Multilingual Japan: Visualizing the Invisible Japan (Y. Asahi)
Section 1: Hidden in Voices, Hidden in Names (parallel, D22)
11:00 – 11:30 The Voice of Culture: Anime Voice as a Sociolinguistic Register in Contemporary Japanese (I. Ōta)
11:30 – 12:00 Rethinking Gender Through Naming? An Inquiry into Gender-Neutral Name Choices in Japan (I. Barešová, T. Nakaya)
Section 2: A Game in Japan, Japan in Games (parallel, C11)
11:00 – 11:30 Japanese Reception of the Czech Historical Video Game Kingdom Come: Deliverance (M. Mikeš)
11:30 – 12:00 Historical Realia in Japanese Themed Board Games (R. Pazderka)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
Section 3: Hidden in a Word, Visible in a Word (parallel, D22)
13:30 – 14:00 Agglutinative Inflection in Japanese – Visible and Invisible (A. Jabłoński)
14:00 – 14:30 In the Beginning Was the Word: On the So-Called Ichigobun in Japanese (J. Matela)
Section 4: Hidden in Art, Visible by Interpretations (parallel, C11)
13:30 – 14:00 Interpretive Possibilities of the Inscription on the Seven-Branched Sword (M. Lázár)
14:00 – 14:30 Shōno Yoriko’s Konpira: Autobiographical Form with Fantastic Content (M. Koníček)
14:30 – 14:50 Coffee break (D21)
Section 5: Hidden Voices, Exposed Acts (D22)
14:50 – 15:20 Institutional (In)Visibility of Minoritized Indigenous Speech Communities in Japan (Z. Hidvégi)
15:20 – 15:50 Sex Abuse Scandal in Japan: The Case of Johnny’s (I. Pruša)
Keynote speech II (D22)
9:00 – 10:00 Global Samurai: Medieval Japan and the Making of the Modern World (O. Benesch)
10:00 – 10:10 Short break
Section 6: Imported Exposures, Exported Inventions (parallel, D22)
10:10 – 10:40 The Making of Modern Vision: The Global Circulation of Science and Nature Writing in Late 19th Century (N. Toyosawa)
10:40 – 11:10 Japanese Export or Global Import? Perceptions of the Ikigai Concept in Japan (Z. Rozwałka)
Section 7: Hidden Attitudes, Visible Language (parallel, C11)
10:10 – 10:40 Attitudes towards Keigo among: Native and Non-Native Japanese Language Teachers in Hungary (D. Horváth)
10:40 – 11:10 Understanding of Synecdoche in Everyday Japanese Communication (K. Sugai)
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break (D21)
Section 8: Visible Spaces, Invisible Feelings (D22)
11:30 – 12:00 European and Japanese University Students’ Sense of Ibasho (R. Croker)
12:00 – 12:30 The Transformation of School Songs in Japanese Schools since the 1980 (T. Suda)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
Section 9: Visible Changes, Hidden Prospects (parallel, D22)
14:00 – 14:30 Obligations and Beyond: Changing Samurai Values in Late Edo Period Japan (B. Szabó)
14:30 – 15:00 France and the Modernization of the Tokugawa Bakufu (R. Kodet)
Section 10 Visible Movements, Visible States (parallel, C11)
14:00 – 14:30 The Secret Grappling Techniques of Kyokushin Karate: Mas Oyama’s Throwing, Joint-Locking and Ground-Fighting Techniques (R. G. Gottner)
14:30 – 15:00 The Present State of Education in Japan: Efforts Toward “Proactive, Interactive, and Deep Learning” (Y. Suda)
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break (D21)
Section 11: Visible Lands, Invisible Spaces (D22)
15:20 – 15:50 The Lay of the Land – Shiga Shigetaka and the Question of Japan’s Territorial Integrity (A. Riessland)
15:50 – 16:00 Conference Closing (D22)
Our conference is still relatively young, and we can still vividly remember its beginning in 2015. We are glad that many participants have returned to us over the years, and although we are moving forward in many respects, we have also managed to maintain the friendly atmosphere of smaller events. On the right side, you can read a very brief report from the conference held two years ago.
Thank you all for staying with us, and we hope to continue meeting you at our conference in the future.
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