Program

Friday
7.11.2025
12:00Registration
13:00-13:30Welcome
13:30-14:30Keynote Speech I: Prof. Dr. Uno Shigeki (Tokyo University)
14:30-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:30Panel 1: (Un-)Democratic Futures X Democratic Theory
Dr. Veith Selk, TU Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Yamamoto Kei, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt, LMU München
Viktoria Huegel, Ph.D., Universität Wien
16:30-17:00Coffee Break
17:00-18:30Panel 2: Futures X Economic Disparity
Prof. Dr. Simon Avenell, Australian National University
Dr. Shibata Saori, University of Sheffield
Dr. Gabriele Michalitsch, Universität Wien
Prof. Dr. Hanno Jentzsch, Universität Wien
19:00-21:00Welcome Dinner (“10er Marie”)
Saturday
8.11.2025
09:00-11:00VSJF Section Meetings
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:00Panel 3: Futures X Gender Politics
Prof. Suzuki Ayaka, University of Tsukuba
Prof. Shimizu Akiko, Tokyo University
Dr. Karsten Schubert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Takeda Hiroko (Nagoya University)
13:00-14:30Lunch
14:30-16:00Keynote Speech II: Prof. Dr. H. L. T. Quan, Arizona State University
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00General Members’ Meeting of the VSJF
Sunday
9.11.2025

9:30-11:00
Panel 4: Futures X Environmental Politics
Prof. Dr. Asuka Jusen, Tohoku University
Dr. Florentine Koppenborg, Hochschule für Politik München
Dr. Jan Groos, University Kiel
Prof. Dr. Nakano Yoshihiro, Rikkyo University
11:00-11:30Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Panel 5: Futures X Global Contestation
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brand, Universität Wien
Dr. Misato Matsuoka, Teikyo University)
Prof. Dr. Michal Kolmaš, Metropolitan University Prague
Dr. Karin Narita, Sheffield University
13:00-13:30Concluding Remarks

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