Gender, Migration and Food: Women in Japanese Foodscapes in Berlin and DüsseldorfMarie Weishaupt und and Chaline Timmerarens

ASIEN – Nr. 146 (2018) pp. 124–26

Freie Universität Berlin, June 23, 2017

On 23 June 2017, the workshop “Gender, Migration, and Food: Women in Japanese Foodscapes in Berlin and Düsseldorf” was held at Freie Universität Berlin (FU). The workshop was organized by Cornelia Reiher (FU) in collaboration with Nora Kottmann (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, HHU), bringing together Japan and China scholars with students from both universities.
The event was rooted in a method course initiated by C. Reiher at FU Berlin. Against the backdrop of the emergence of new “Japanese” food trends in Berlin in recent years, she saw an opportunity to teach students ethnographic methods by asking them to conduct interviews with members of the Japanese diaspora working in the food industry and produce short movies. In collaboration with N. Kottmann, the project grew to include Düsseldorf, a city with a large number of Japanese nationals. As the courses concluded, the workshop was held with the aim of discussing and comparing the results that emerged from the teachings and students’ projects in both cities…