Giulia BAQUE'

Current Position

• September 2024 - Present Subject Expert

Education

• September 2020 - July 2024 Ph.D., 36th Cycle, International Ph.D. Programme, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University 
• 2017 - 2019 MA Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Leiden University 
• 2015 - 2017 MA Japanese Studies, Leiden University
• 2012 - 2015 BA Japanese Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Research Abroad and Additional Training

• 2023 Summer School The Intersectional Posthumanities, Utrecht University, 21-25 August
• 2022 Visiting Research Fellow, Waseda University, October - December
• 2022 Research Seminar Eco-Collapse in Transatlantic Perspective, The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (Online), October - December
• 2022 Doctoral Summer School LERU, Utrecht University, 3-8 July
• 2021 Research Period, INALCO, November - December
• 2021 Ph.D. Workshop, European Association for Japanese Studies (Online), 18-20 August
• 2020 Summer School The Institute for World Literature, Harvard University (Online), 6-31 July
• 2018 Workshop (In)Human Time: Responses to Radiotoxicity, Vrije University of Amsterdam, 23 May
• 2017 Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University
• 2016 - 2017 Research Period, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, March 2016 - March 2017
• 2014 - 2015 Research Period, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, September - March

Funding and Scholarships

• 2025-2027 JSPS Post doctoral fellow
• 2020 - 2023 Ph.D. Full Scholarship, Italian Ministry of University and Research / Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2018 Travel Award for Excellent Applicants, Travel Grant for participation in the 11th Next Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University (Asian Studies Unit), 10-11 November
• 2016 - 2017 Jasso Scholarship, Funding for research period in Japan
• 2014 - 2015 Jasso Scholarship, Funding for research period in Japan
• 2012 - 2015 Ca' Foscari International College, three years full scholarship

Invited Lectures

• 2026 “Worlds in ruins: ecological crises, resistance, and affect in Japanese contemporary Novels” Department of Japanese Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4 March. 
• 2026 「ジェンダー、言語、環境から読む：昭和から現代の日本女性作家」
  [Reading Japanese Women Writers from the Showa Era to Today: Gender, Language, and the Environment], Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan, 15 and 22 January.
• 2025 "Riscrivere la storia: come gli animali raccontano il passato nella letteratura giapponese contemporanea” [Rewriting history: nonhuman retellings of the past in contemporary Japanese literature], part of the MA course in Contemporary Japanese Literature,  Ca’ Foscari University, 20 January.
• 2024  “Il Monte Fuji e gli spazi del contemporaneo” [Mount Fuji and the spaces of the contemporary age],  part of the MA course in Contemporary Japanese Literature,  Ca’ Foscari University, 15 November.
• 2023 "La Letteratura Post-Fukushima" (Post-Fukushima Literature), Course in Japanese Literature (BA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 18-19 May
• 2022 "Unexpected encounters in Oyamada Hiroko’s The Factory: human-nonhuman relationality and the collapse of company culture", Course in Contemporary Japanese Culture (BA), Porto University, 6 December
• 2021 "Come scrivere una tesina" (How to write an academic research paper), Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature (MA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 14-21 May
• 2021 "L'Ecocritica e la Letteratura Giapponese" (Ecocriticism and Japanese Literatura), Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature (MA), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 26 March, 2-9 April

Conferences

• 2026 International Conference on Disaster Studies: "Narratives, Symbolisms and Responses to Catastrophe" Ritsumeikan University (Japan) and London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (United Kingdom), "Grotesque Bodies: Rupture, Resilience, and the Affects of Transformation in Abe Kōbō’s Fiction," 29-31 October (co-authored paper).
• 2026 Eco-Emotions on Earth, Oslo University (Norway),  "Consuming the soil, creating a nation: colonization, economic decline, and affect in Kawasaki Akiko’s Redeeming the Soil (2019)," 2-4 September.
• 2026 18th EAJS International Conference (Poznań, Poland),  "Affective waters: fear, grief, and posthuman existences in Ueda Sayuri’s Kemonotachi no umi (2022)," 27-30 August.
• 2026 9th ASLE-East Asia International Symposium, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan),  "The emotions of the Earth: care, grief, and ethics in the Anthropocene," 12-13 June.
• 2026 The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (United Kingdom) (online), “Worlds in ruins: ecological crises, resistance and affect in three Japanese contemporary novels,” 21-22 March. 
• 2025 4th EAJS Conference in Japan, Sendai University (Japan)  "A choral nonhuman narrative: the speculative futures of Kawakami Hiromi’s Ōkina torini sarawarenaiyō," 20-21 September.
• 2025 Eco-Emotions on Water Oslo University (Norway) “The Liquid World of Abe Kōbō: Affective watery imagination and political anxieties in Inter Ice Age 4 (1959),” 3-5 September
• 2023 Zoopolitics of Life and Death, Ca’ Foscari and Leuphana University, “The (Animal) Power: retelling human history through the eyes of a cat”, 17-18 October
• 2023 NeMLA 2023, Niagara Falls, NY (USA)
  Panel organizer: "Resilient Environments and World Literatures: Post Disaster Recovery and Future Worlds", 23-26 March
• 2022 AISTUGIA 2022, Bologna University, “Guardando l’altro: rappresentazioni dell’umano e non umano nella letteratura giapponese contemporanea”, 15-17 September
• 2022 AJLS 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA), “Deconstructing 3.11 as a Paradigm Shift: Literary Continuity and Social Responsibility in Environmental Disaster”, 12-14 May
• 2022 NeMLA 2022, Baltimore, MD (USA), “Battling with Care: Environmental Injustice in Ishimure Michiko’s and Rachel Carson’s Works”, 10-13 March
• 2021 EAJS 2021 (Online), “Voices of Hope. Taguchi Randy’s shifting Paradigm: or from ‘victim’ to ‘survivor’”,  24-28 August
• 2021 World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation, KU Leuven (Online), Panel co-organizer: World Literature in Unexpected Places: Displacement and the Minor in Global Urban Contexts, “Kawakami Mieko’s Breasts and Eggs: confinement, marginality and motherhood in Japanese urban spaces”, 5-7 May
• 2021 Vulnerability and Resilience: Voices and Practices from the Margins, University of Milan (Online), “Confronting Marginality: Resilient Women and Environments in the Landscape of Disaster”, 17-19 March
• 2021 On the Boundaries of Here and Now, Ca’ Foscari University (Online) “Fighting with Words: Tawada Yoko’s Intercultural Space for Critique”, 4-5 February
• 2019 Post 3.11 Perspectives on Japanese Literature. Lire la littérature japonaise à la lumière de l’après 11 mars, INALCO, “3.11 and Ecocriticism. Rereading Ōe Kenzaburō’s Somersault as a Nuclear Ecofiction”, 2 December
• 2019 ICAS 11, Leiden University, Panel convenor: The Meanings of Cultural Flows: Between Reception and Production
  “Lost in Translation: Language Flows of Translations”, 16-19 July
• 2018 JAPANologists' PLAYGROUND 2018, Copernicus University, “Performing Gender in Shunga: Blurring Boundaries Between Fiction and Reality” (co-authored paper), 29 November - 2 December
• 2018 11th Next Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University, “Fashioning the Self in Shunga: Gender Fluidity within a Community” (co-authored paper), 10-11 November
• 2018 40 years with Murakami Haruki, Newcastle University, “Women without Men: A Foucauldian Analysis of Women’s Sexuality in Murakami's Novels”, 8-9 March

Event Organization

• 2026 More than human thinking: power structures, capitalism and inequality in a more than human perspective, Academic Symposium, Tsuda University (Japan), 12 December.
• 2023  Teaching, publishing, and getting a job: Navigating Academia. Workshop series, Co-organizer, Ca’ Foscari University, November-December.
• 2022 Fragile Selves PhD Symposium, Organizing committee, Ca’ Foscari University, 2-4 March.
• 2021 "Feminisms, Environmentalisms and World Literature after Fukushima", Guest lecture by professor Karen Thornber (Harvard University) at Ca’ Foscari University (Online). Organizing committee. 12 October

Research Groups and Networks

• FRINGE Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections
• Un-earthed 
• Environmental Humanities Reading Group

Memberships

• European Association for Japanese Studies
• Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi 
• Association for Japanese Literary Studies 
• ASLE-Japan

Language Proficiency

• Italian C2 (native speaker)
• English C2 (near-native)
• Japanese N2 (proficient)
• French B2 (intermediate)
• Dutch A2 (beginner)
• German A2 (beginner)
• Chinese A1 (beginner)