Returning from the summer break we will be once again in part on the road presenting our work and various results of the project at a number of events in August and September.
As already briefly mentioned in our last announcement, we will be taking part in the 19. Deutschsprachigen Japanologentag to be held at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main between the 20-22nd of August with two presentations. Christopher Zysik will be presenting on the topic of „Girls-Metal-Band-Boom“ und die Aufteilung des Sinnlichen im transkulturellen Kontext, and Martin Roth and Zoltan Kacsuk will be talking about Metadatenanalyse als Methode für die japanbezogene Medienforschung.
Then, Christopher Zysik and Martin Hennig will be at the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft Annual Conference in Paderborn September 16-19, and present their work with the title Macht in fankuratierten Datenbanken.
Finally, Martin Roth and Zoltan Kacsuk’s presentation The Impact of Datascapes on Metadata Analytics, illustrated by the Virtual Census of Characters in the Japanese Visual Media Graph will be representing the project at the The 4th EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies) Japan Conference organized at Tohoku University and to be held September 20-21.