Basic Information

Faculty

• 国際高等教育院

Professional Memberships

• European Association for Japanese Studies
• Gesellschaft für Japanstudien

Academic Degree

• master’s degree(Ruhr-University Bochum)
• Ph.D.(Heidelberg University)

Research History

• From Sep. 2018, To Feb. 2019

  Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Professor
• From Sep. 2012, To Sep. 2018

  Heidelberg University, Institut for Japanese Studies, Assistant Professor

Profile

• Profile

  近現代日本の社会史と思想史を専門して、戦前、戦後社会運動における運動理論と思想実践の繋がりを分析・再構築を試みています。その中で、戦前左翼社会主義運動における労働者の政治的エイジェンシー、戦後学生運動における政治思想転換、「ポースト６８年」の新左翼における環境観、８０年代日本の社会における「コンピューター化」等のテーマをめぐるさまざまな問題を調べたいと思います。

Language of Instruction

• Japanese
• English
• German

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  201901017969152709

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/knaudttill

Research

Research Topics, Overview of the research

• Research Topics

  Modern Japanese social history, history of ideas, history of technology

• Overview of the research

  I am focusing in modern Japanese social and intellectual history with special interest into the research on the entanglement of social movement theory and practice.Among these I conduct research on worker agency in prewar radical socialist left, on shifts of ideas among activists of the Japanese student movement, environmentalism in the New Left and the history of computerization in Japan before the advent of the internet.

Research Interests

• History of political ideas
• History of technology in Japan
• Social history of Japan
• Modern Japanese history

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, History - Japan

Papers

• The Opposition inside the Opposition: Tenkō, Yamakawaism, and the Left-Socialist Worker's Movement in 1920-30 Japan

  Till KNAUDT

  Araya Takashi, Nakajima Hiroki, Suzuki Takeo (Ed.) "Rekishi no naka no radikarizumu", Jun. 2021, Invited, Lead author

  
• Maikon and Cyber-Capitalism: Some Preliminary Remarks on a History of Computerization in Japan, 1960–1990

  Till KNAUDT

  Zinbun, Mar. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Till Knaudt: Rezension zu: Ward, Max: Thought Crime. Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan. Durham 2019. ISBN 978-1-4780-0165-2

  Till KNAUDT

  H-Soz-Kult ., Aug. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• About the "Corona-Crisis" and the End of the Prehistory of the Computerized Capitalist Mode of Production.

  Till KNAUDT

  Gendai Shisō, Aug. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• A farewell to class: the Japanese New Left, the colonial landscape of Kamagasaki and the Anti-Japanese Front (1970-1975)

  KNAUDT Till

  Journal of Japanese Studies, Aug. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo, by Nick Kapur. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2018 , 325 pp., $39.95 (ISBN: 9780674984424)

  Till KNAUDT

  Social Science Japan Journal, 16 Jul. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• Review: “Müller, Simone (2016). Zerrissenes Bewusstsein. Der Intellektuellendiskurs im modernen Japan. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton

  KNAUDT Till

  Asiatische Studien / Etudes Asiatiques, Nov. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• “Politische Agitation und Sozialreform im Alltag: Das 'Settlement' der Universität Tōkyō in Shitamachi”

  KNAUDT Till; KRÄMER Hans Martin

  Köhn, Stephan/ Weber, Chantal/ Elis, Volker (Hrsg.) Tōkyō in den zwanziger Jahren. Experimentierfeld einer anderen Moderne? Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Review: “Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and the Politics of Memory, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 147 pp

  KNAUDT Till

  Japan Forum, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• 

  Antiimperialism and Antijapanism and Japan's "Post-1968"

  KNAUDT Till

  ゲシヒデ, 2015, Invited

  
• Revolution in der Badewanne oder Eifersuchtsmord? Studentenbewegung, Geschlecht und die Filme ‘Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex’ und ‘Vereinigte Rote Armee’ im Vergleich

  KNAUDT Till

  Bandhauer-Schöffmann, Irene; van Laak, Dirk (Hrsg.) Der Linksterrorismus der 1970er-Jahre und die Ordnung der Geschlechter (Giessen Contributions to the Study of Culture, Bd. 9), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2013, Invited

  
• “›Die Naturwissenschaften in der Entscheidungsschlacht‹. Die Mobilisierung von Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftlern in Japan im Zweiten Weltkrieg

  KNAUDT Till

  Berg, Matthias; Thiel, Jens; Walther, Peter (Hrsg.) Mit Feder und Schwert: Gelehrte und Krieg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009, Invited

  

Presentations

• Making the Organs of Total Production: Some Preliminary Remarks on a History of Computerization in Japan, 1960­-1990.

  京都大学人文研共同研究班 21世紀の人文学 - Our Ageを問う

  31 Jan. 2020, Invited

  
• １９７０年代の新左翼におけるマイノリティ解放論と部落民運動

  部落解放論研究会の第28回の研究会, 26 Jan. 2020, Invited

  
• Ōta Ryū and the Anti-imperialist Left‘s Awkward Relationship with Nature

  京大人文研共同研究班 生と創造の探究-環世界の人文学, 28 Oct. 2019, Invited

  
• „Erfolg“ oder „Niederlage“? Diskontinuitäten in Theorie und politischer Praxis in der Neuen Linken nach 1968

  KNAUDT Till

  Das Erbe der Meiji-Restauration Wege zur liberalen Demokratie 1868 – 2018, Halle University (Germany), 14 Dec. 2018, Invited

  
• Das Ende der Arbeiterklasse auf Hokkaidō? Zechenschließung, Streiks und Rationalisierung in den 1960er Jahren

  KNAUDT Till

  Japanologentag 2018, 30 Sep. 2018, Invited

  
• Discovering liberated landscapes: The Japanese New Left’s “spatial turn” after 1968

  KNAUDT Till

  Words and Violence: Global History of the 1968 Protests in Japan and its Contemporary Meaning, Leiden University (Belgium), 21 Aug. 2018, Invited

  
• Maikon in Maihōmu? Ein Werkstattbericht einer Geschichte des Heimcomputers in Japan

  KNAUDT Till

  Initiative Historische Japanforschung (CEEJA, France), 15 Jun. 2018, Invited

  
• What is proletarian memory? Writing about class, agency, and history in 20th century Japan

  KNAUDT Till

  DAAD-JSPS Kyoto-Heidelberg Joint Research Project “Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: Gender, Labor and Citizenship”, Kyoto University, 09 Apr. 2018, Invited

  
• Resisting the Comrades: Dissent and Dissidence Among Left-Wing Activists in 1920s and 1930s Japan.

  KNAUDT Till

  Deutscher Orientalistentag 2018, Jena University (Germany), 21 Sep. 2017, Invited

  
• Proletarian Knowledge: Intellectuals, Workers, and Class Emancipation at the Tōkyō University Settlement Workers School

  KNAUDT Till

  European Association of Japanese Studies, Lisbon University (Portugal), 01 Sep. 2017, Invited

  
• Theorie und Praxis der japanischen studentischen Linken

  KNAUDT Till

  Frankfurt University (Germany), 27 Apr. 2017, Invited

  
• On the Margins of the Global North: A History of the Working People on Hokkaidō

  KNAUDT Till

  Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: Gender, Labor and Citizenship, 01 Apr. 2017, Invited

  

Books and Other Publications

• Von Revolution zu Befreiung : Studentenbewegung, Antiimperialismus und Terrorismus in Japan (1968-1975)

  Knaudt Till

  Campus Verlag, 2016, Not refereed

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Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Japanese History I-E2

  H281, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Japanese History II-E2

  H282, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Japanese History I-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Japanese History II-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Japanese History I-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Japanese History II-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Japanese History I-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Japanese History II-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目

Administration

Faculty management (title, position)

• From 01 Apr. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2021

  出版委員会 委員
• From 01 Apr. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2021

  現代中国研究ｾﾝﾀｰ運営委員会 委員
• From 01 Apr. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2022

  出版委員会　委員
• From 01 Apr. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2022

  現代中国研究ｾﾝﾀｰ運営委員