Faculty Information - SPANG Christian W.

SPANG Christian W.

Department Daito Bunka University Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language

Job Professor

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/09/27	Herbert von Dirksen – The first Nazi ambassador in Tokyo (49th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
2.	2024/07/06	Two non-Aryan Germans in Rural Japan. Life Between Japanese Spy Paranoia and Fears of Nazi Harassment (26th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
3.	2023/10/06	Werner Preibisch in Yamaguchi: A Half-Jewish German High School Teacher in Rural Japan during the Nazi Years (47th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
4.	2023/06/24	Dr. Werner Preibisch in Japan, 1936-1945. A half-Jewish German teaching at a Japanese elite high school (kotogakko) during the Axis era (23rd Asian Studies Association Conference in Asia (AAS-in-Asia))
5.	2021/11/30	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Shanghai (Symposium on the Outbreak of the Pacific War and the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai)
6.	2021/09/30	The Japanese Members of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) (45th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
7.	2021/08/24	Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in Karl Haushofer's writings and in the Zeitschrift fuer Geopolitik (Villa Geo- and Biopolitical Concepts of Order in the Age of the World Wars: On the International Reception of Friedrich Ratzels Theories)
8.	2021/07/27	India within Karl Haushofer's writing and thinking (26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS))
9.	2019/10/05	The Role of German High School Teachers in Japan before 1945 (43rd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
10.	2019/07/01	The German East Asiatic Society in Shanghai. Local leaders, Nazi pressure (23rd Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
11.	2018/09/29	Nazi Racism and its Influence on Japanese-German Couples (42nd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
12.	2018/08/30	National-Socialist Racism and its Effects on Japanese-German Couples in Japan (17th Gathering of German-speaking Japanologists)
13.	2018/07/01	Anti-Nazis and Nazis among German Teachers at Japanese High Schools before 1945 (22nd Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
14.	2017/10/06	The Activities of the German East Asiatic Society in Shanghai (41st German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
15.	2017/07/09	Nazi Racism and Japanese-German Marriages (21st Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
16.	2015/10/04	The internment of Germans in Dutch East India and the Japanese sinking of the "Van Imhoff" (39th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
17.	2015/08/25	Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) in Tokyo als Bindeglied zwischen Asien und Deutschland (Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Germanistik (IVG))
18.	2015/06/20	Japanese Geopoliticians after 1945 (19th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
19.	2015/04/11	The first German-Japanese / Japanese-German Military Dictionaries (International Conference on MULTILINGUAL PERSPECTIVES IN GEOLINGUISTICS)
20.	2014/09/21	Experiences of a Jewish-German Businessman in Kobe (Japan) between 1926 and 1946 (38th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
21.	2014/06/21	Comparing Wakamatsu Koji's 'United Red Army' and Uli Edel's 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' (18th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
22.	2014/02/14	Karl Haushofer's views on Pacific affairs (International Conference (Hawaii): Asia and the Pacific in German Culture)
23.	2013/10/06	Albrecht Haushofer and his 1937 mission to Japan (37th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
24.	2013/08/06	Karl Haushofer's Theories and German-Japanese Relations (Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union (Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future))
25.	2012/12/08	Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges between Japan and Germany until 1945 (Singapore) (International conference: Asia-Europe Encounters. Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950)
26.	2012/10/06	German Japan-experts during the Nazi era (36th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
27.	2011/08/26	From Boom to Taboo and Back? Japanese Geopolitics before and after 1945 (13th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Tallinn)
28.	2011/06/26	The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in East Asia (1930-45) (15th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
29.	2010/10/09	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) and National Socialism (34th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
30.	2010/09/18	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) 1933-45: Expansion and Adaptation (Conference "Exil in East Asia (1933-1945)")
31.	2010/05/30	Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex. Buch - Film - Realitaet (Fruehjahrstagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
32.	2009/10/09	Karl Haushofer's Role in German-Japanese Relations (33rd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
33.	2008/06/22	The Reception of Karl Haushofer's Ideas within Japanese Geopolitics (12th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
34.	2008/04/06	Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics (Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Annual Meeting 2008)
35.	2007/10/07	Creative Writing in German Classes (Herbsttagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
36.	2007/06/09	The German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a topic in Advanced German Classes (Fruehjahrstagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
37.	2005/05/14	Tokyo's Role within the History of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) (Symposium "Global Tokyo", German East Asiatic Society (OAG))
38.	2004/05/22	German Geopolitics and the Idea of a Japanese-German-Soviet Transcontinental Bloc (Doitsu no chiseigaku to Nichi-Doku-So tairiku-burokku riron) (54th Concerence of the Japanese Society of Western History)
39.	2004/03/02	Japan's Role in Karl Haushofer's Foreign Policy Concept (National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS))
40.	2001/08/20	Karl Haushofer's Influence on Japanese and German Strategic Thinking (27th International Congress of Military History, Athens (Greece))
41.	2001/06/23	German Academics as Part-time Diplomats: Biographical Notes on Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Hack, Prof. Dr. Karl Haushofer and Dr. Hermann von Raumer (5th Asian Studies Conference Japan)
42.	1999/11/13	Geopolitics and Diplomacy. Academic Theories and Personal Contacts as Basis for Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations 1909-1945 (377th lecture meeting of the Japanese Society for Contemporary History)
43.	1999/09/16	Karl Haushofer and Japan (11th Convention of German-speaking Japanologists)