Jana Katzenberg
...is a PhD researcher in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Cologne.
In the context of her dissertation she is researching the fashion space Tokyo in relation to usage practices, social space and media discourse.
Her research interests include fashion and consumer culture, print media, and sub and popular culture.
- Education
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PhD Researcher, Japanese Studies University of Cologne - 2014–present
Planned Thesis: Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse
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MA, Modern Japanese Studies HHU Düsseldorf - 2010-2014
Thesis: Fashion and the creation of identity – a Cultural Studies perspective on Japanese Fashion Brands
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BA, M. Japanese Studies / Sociology HHU Düsseldorf - 2006-2010
Thesis: Media discourse on the fashion district of Harajuku
- Publications
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2022: „The (global) cultural history of the fashion district Harajuku: Exoticization, internationalization and DIY“, in: dObra[s] – revista da Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Pesquisas em Moda, n. 34, p. 129–146, 2022. DOI: 10.26563/dobras.i34.1479.
2020: „Exotisierung und Internationalisierung in der Kulturgeschichte des Modeviertels Harajuku“, in: Chiavacci, David, and Iris Wieczorek. Japan 2020: Politik, Wirtschaft Und Gesellschaft. München: Iudicium Verlag.
2015: „Glamouröse Grenzgänger“, in: Mae, Michiko, and Elisabeth Scherer. Japan-pop Without Borders?: Transkulturalität und Subkulturen in der Japanischen Populärkultur. Düsseldorf: dup.
- Research Grants
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04 / 2017 – 12 / 2017 Doctoral fellowship at the German Institute of Japanese Studies Tokyo
02 / 2016 – 04 / 2016 Research stay at the German Institute of Japanese Studies, funded by a.r.t.e.s. international, University of Cologne
12 / 2012 – 02 / 2013 Research stay at the German Institute of Japanese Studies, funded by a High Potential Mobility Grant (University of Düsseldorf and DAAD)
- Presentations
07/2021 "(SUB) CULTURAL:Fashioning the Self Outside the Everyday - Harajuku" The Eighth Fashion Forward Symposium, New York & online
07/2021 "Exoticization and Internationalization in the cultural history of the fashion district Harajuku" KISMIF International Conference, Porto & online
11/2019 "Internationalisierung in der Kulturgeschichte Harajukus 1945 bis heute" VSJF Annual Conference 2016, Fachgruppe Geschichte / Stadt und Regionalwissenschaften, Ruhr University Bochum
08/2018 “ファッションスペースとしての原宿 - Harajuku as Fashion Space” JFLF Seminar × Think of Fashion Presentation 003, Japan Fashion and Lifestyle Foundation, Tokyo
03/2018 “Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse” DIJ History & Humanities Study Group, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
11/2016 „Fashion Space Harajuku: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse“ VSJF Annual Conference 2016, Fachgruppe Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie, University of Duisburg-Essen
08/2015 "Modemedien in Japan. Diversifizierung und Digitalisierung ab den 90er Jahren" 16. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, LMU Munich
06/2015 „Media usage in Japan – Diversification and Digitalization“ Workshop Japanology in the Digital Age, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg