Antonia Vesting, M.A.
Research Associate at DFG-Project "Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan"
Japan-Center
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 9801
Postal address:
Oettingenstraße 67
D-80538 Munich
Research interests
- Sustainability and Energy
- Local Energy Initiatives
- Demographic change
- Sustainable city planning
Curriculum Vitae
- Year
- Academic appointments and education
- since 10/2023
- Doctoral student in Japanese Studies (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt)
- since 10/2023
- Research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Japan Zentrum, LMU, in the project „Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan“
- 09/2021 – 09/2023
- Student assistant at the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- 04/2021 – 03/2023
- Teacher of German as a Foreign Language at the Japanese International School of Berlin e.V.
- 10/2020 - 09/2023
- M.A. Japanese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 09/2019 - 03/2020
- Exchange student Waseda University, Tokyo
- 10/2017 - 09/2020
- B.A. International Bachelor Program in East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (Major) and Systematic Musicology (Minor); Universität Hamburg
- 10/2016 – 09/2017
- B.A. Systematic Musicology (Major) and Sociology (Minor); Universität Hamburg
Participation in Research Projects
- Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan
- funded by the DFG (2023-2026)
Further information
(2024)
Local Government and Citizen Participation in Planning: Impressions from the Field. At: QuaMaFA and Free University of Berlin Workshop, 2024/12/17, Free University of Berlin, Berlin/Germany.
Participatory city planning in times of demographic change: Creating sustainable cities from the bottom up. At: VSJF Annual Conference 2024 – Sustainability in Japan, 2024/11/14, Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB), Berlin/Germany.
(2023)
Presentation at: Joint FU/LMU Doctoral Workshop on Japanese Politics, 2024/12/18, Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, München/Germany.