Program

Friday
7.11.2025
12:00 Registration
13:00-13:30 Welcome
13:30-14:30 Keynote Speech I: Prof. Dr. Uno Shigeki, Tokyo University
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Panel 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
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Panel 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
19:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner (“10er Marie”)
Saturday
8.11.2025
09:00-11:00 VSJF Section Meetings
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 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
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Keynote Speech II: Prof. Dr. H. L. T. Quan, Arizona State University
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 General 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
11:00-11:30 Coffee 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
13:00-13:30 Concluding Remarks