University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 223
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

kamm@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 - 54 4357

Fax:

+49 (0) 6221 - 54 4012

About Björn-Ole Kamm

Office hours:
Tue, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wed, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (every other week)
Thu, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Consultation: Tue, 2.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
(Please contact me per mail)

Dissertation Project:

Global networks, identity- and role-playing (games) in Japan, Germany and the USA

Areas of Research

• Identity and Social Exclusion (stereotyping, labeling, "moral panics")
• Popular Culture (media use and effects, gender studies)
• Entertainment and Education (roleplaying, learning effects)

Projects

• Professorship Cultural Economic History

Curriculum vitae

Since 07/2011
Coordinator for Research Area C at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".

04/2011 - 06/2011
Graduate Assistant for Research Area C at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University.

Since 04/2011
Ph.D. Student at Heidelberg University (supervisor: Prof. Harald Fuess).

06/2010-10/2010
Ph.D. Student at the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ, scholarship).

10/2009-03/2011
Webmaster at the East Asia Institute (Japanese Studies), Leipzig University, and doctoral candidate at Leipzig University.

08/2008-08/2009
Coordinator for International Relations, Board of Education, Ichinomiya City Hall (Aichi, Japan).

2008
M.A. in Japanese Studies and Communications & Media Studies at Leipzig University

03/2005-03/2006
DAAD scholarship, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan, College and Graduate School of Social Sciences.

03/1998-01/1999
Naga High School, Wakayama, Japan.

Selected publications

Monograph

2010. Nutzen und Gratifikationen bei Boys' Love Manga - Fujoshi oder verdorbene Mädchen in Japan und Deutschland [Uses and Gratifications of Boys‘ Love Manga - Fujoshi or rotten girls in Japan and Germany]. Hamburg: Kovac.

Journal Articles

2012. "Vielfältig und Hybrid - Der Manga-Diskurs in Japan" [Diverse and Hybrid - The Manga Discourse in Japan]. In: JuLit 1/12 Comic - Manga - Graphic Novel. Aktuelle Tendenzen in der graphischen Literatur für Kinder und Jugendliche.

2011. "Why Japan does not Larp". In: Thomas Duus Henriksen, et al. Think larp. Academic Writings from KP2011. Kopenhagen: Rollespilsakademiet, pp. 52-69.

2008. "Media Cultivation: Japan’s Gay Boom of the 90s". In: Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung (BJOAF), Vol. 32, pp. 95-114.

Selected presentations

"Manga-ron: On the manga discourse in Japan". AKJ Conference "Comic - Manga- Graphic Novel", Eisenach (2011/11/25-27).

"Gates and their Keys – Language Barriers, Flows and “Cosmopolitan” Gatekeepers of Japanese Pop Culture". Conference "Trends on the Move", Project B12, Cluster "Asia and Europe", Heidelberg (2011/10/28-29).

"Space and life-action roleplay in Japan". 13th International Conference of the EAJS, Tallinn University, Estonia (2011/08/24-27).

"Why Japan does not Larp". Knudepunkt Conference 2011, Bymosehegn, Denmark (2011/02/17-20).

"Uses & Gratifications of Boys‘ Love Manga – Fujoshi in Japan and Germany". Conference 'Glocal Polemics of BL (Boys Love)', Oita University, Japan (2011/01/22-23).

"Global Communities and Networks of the otaku-kei bunka? Flows, Counter-Flows and their Barriers". Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, VSJF (2010/11/26-28).

"Gender segregation at the game table, transgender in the mind? - Non-digital roleplaying in Japan". VSJF Gender-Workshop (2010/11/25-26).

"The Modern Practice of Otaku Labeling". International Conference "Otakuology: Challenges and New Directions", Temple University, Tokyo (2010/09/11).