Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies

Office hours wednesday 16-18h, please contact the secretary
Current Lectures at the University of Zurich

• Professor in Social Science of Japan, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich
• Director, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich
• Board member of the Swiss Society of Asian Studies
• Speaker and member of the academic advisory council for Japan and Korea of the German Association for Asian Studies
• Co-editor of the Japan yearbook of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan
• Member of the editorial board of the journal “Contemporary Japan” (German Institute for Japanese Studies) and of the journal “Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques” (Swiss Society of Asian Studies) as well as of the book series “Welten Ostasiens” (Swiss Society of Asian Studies)

• Political sociology, economic sociology and knowledge sociology of Japan
• Immigration and immigration policy in Japan
• Social structures and social inequality in Japan
• Japanese society in comparative perspective

• 2017 Professor in Social Science of Japan, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2010 Associate Professor in Social Science of Japan, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2009 Professor for Modern Japanese Studies (substitution), Institute of East Asian Studies, University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
• 2005 – 2010 Reader and research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Free University Berlin (Germany)
• 2003 – 2005 Reader and research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2001 – 2003 Visiting research fellow at the Institute for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo (Japan)
• 1998 – 2001 Teaching and research assistant at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Academic Publications (January 2019) (PDF, 301 KB)

Newer publications

• German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
• European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
• German-Japanese Society of Social Sciences (GJSSS)
• Swiss Society of Asian Studies (SAG)
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
• German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)

日本学主任教授
Telephone: +41 44 634 40 84
Fax: +41 44 634 49 21
david.chiavacci@aoi.uzh.ch