Stockholm university
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Master’s Asian Studies Thesis Defenses 2025

Seminar

Date: Monday 16 June 2025

Time: 09.00 – 17.15

Location: F6, Meeting room and D315

Programme for MA Asian Studies Thesis Defences.

Please observe that there are two different venues.

Venue: The department’s meeting room, F6

9.00-10.00:
Oskar Ekestorm: "All Your Translation Are Belong to Machines. Exploring Domain-Specific Neural Machine Translation in Japnese-English Video Game Localization", Supervisor: Mitsuyo Kuwano Lidén, Discussant: Axel Morén, Examiner: Elie Wardini

10.00-11.00:
Cheng Shuyue: "Mapping Laughter in Japanese Variety Shows: A Mixed-Methods Study on Gender, Carnical and Emotional Labor", Supervisor: Gunnar Jinmei Linder, Discussant: Theodor Mihai Dorin, Examiner: Stina Jelbring

11.00-12.00:
Theodor Mihai Dorin:"Intersecting Japanese Women’s Literature and Queer Literature. A twofold narratological approach to Ekuni Kaori’s Kira Kira Hikaru", Supervisor: Jaqueline Berndt, Discussant: Cheng Shuyue, Examiner: Eunah Kim

Break

13.00-14.00:
Danica Lundin: "Memoirs of a ‚Geisha,‘ Life of a Geiko, and the Story of a Geigi. A Comparative Analysis of Narrative Ornamentalism Relative to Etic and Emic in Memoirs of a Geisha, Geisha, a Life, and The Old Geisha“, Supervisor: Stina Jelbring, Discussant: Nelly Öberg, Examiner: Jaqueline Berndt

14.00-15.00:
Nelly Öberg: "Reclaiming the Feminie in Daoism – A Feminist Sinologist Reinterpretation", Supervisor: Monika Gänssbauer, Discussant: Danica Lundin, Examiner: Irmy Schweiger
Break

15.15-16.15:
Hsiao-Lei Fan: "Nostlagic for Love. An examination of Taiwanese youth romance films in South Korean public media and social media spaces", Supervisor: Jaqueline Berndt, Discussant: Christian James Gregory, Examiner: Sonja Häussler

16.15-17.15:
Christian James Gregory: "Imperial Incompetence. Skepticism oft he US/ROK Relationship in the Cinema of Bong Joon-ho", Supervisor: Sonja Häussler, Discussant: Hsiao-Lei Fan, Examiner: Gabriel Jonsson

Venue: D 315

9.00-10.00:
Jiayu Wu: "Surviving Marginalization. The Discursive Formation of the Tōyoko Kids’ Subjectivity in Contemporary Japan", Supervisor: Gunnar Jinmei Linder, Discussant: Wei Hedenlund, Examiner: Jaqueline Berndt

Break

11.15-12.15:
Qiao Moling: "Early Modern Japanese Realism and Mono no Aware – An Analysis of Male Characters in Higuchi Ichiyō’s Literary Work Takekurabe", Supervisor: Stina Jelbring, Discussant: Telma Peres, Examiner: Mitsuyo Kuwano-Lidén

Break

13.00-14.00:
Wei Hedenlund: "Framing Red Tourism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of State-Owned and Non-State-Owned Chinese Newspapers”, Supervisor: Irmy Schweiger, Discussant: Shi Wenqi, Examiner: Monika Gänssbauer

14.00-15.00:
Inari Vilminko: "Breaking the Silence: The #MeToo Movement in South Korea and Its Challenges to Patriarchy, Legal and Institutional Norms", Supervisor: Gabriel Jonsson, Discussant: Zhirui Zhang, Examiner: Sonja Häussler

Break

15.15-16.15:
Liu Tiantian: "Telling History Trough Family: Chinese Canadian Migration in Denise Chong’s The Concubine’s Children", Supervisor: Irmy Schweiger, Discussant: Sarina Johansson, Examiner: Monika Gänssbauer

16.15-17.15:
Zhirui Zhang: "Women of the Sea. The Representation of Ama Divers in the Japanese TV Drama Amachan (2013)", Supervisor: Jaqueline Berndt, Discussant: Inari Vilminko, Examiner: Gunnar Jinmei Linder

Last updated: June 2, 2025

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