Day: 11 April 2025

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Intensive Lecture Course : Aesthetics, Materiality, and Politics: An Intensive Introduction to Meiji Art (2025/8/4-2025/8/8)

The Transcultural Studies Division holds an intensive lecture course entitled “Aesthetics, Materiality, and Politics: An Intensive Introduction to Meiji Art” (Foundation I – Seminar (VMC)), taught by Dr. Katharina RODE-KAYA from Heidelberg University on August 4-8.
In this intensive course, we will approach the art and politics Japanese Meiji era (1868-1912), and navigate their complexity through separate case studies that are often transcultural in nature. While having absorbed visual and technical input from mainly China and Europe throughout the so-called closed (sakoku) Edo period, the availability of materials and contact to actual people from outside Japan propelled art-politico development from the 1880s onwards. To cater to various interests and the transcultural perspective of the program, we will explore five different aspects of the Meiji art world.

Date & Time: August 4-8, 9:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00
Location: TBA
Language: English

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Intensive Lecture Course : Learning the Power of Observation (2025/7/28-2025/8/1)

The Transcultural Studies Division holds an intensive lecture course entitled “Learning the Power of Observation” (Foundation I – Seminar (VMC)), taught by Filmmaker, Kazuhiro Soda on July 28-31 and August 1.In this intensive course, he will explain how and why he takes his particular approach to documentary filmmaking, covering all phases of filmmaking from filming to editing to marketing. It will give students an opportunity to learn how a documentary filmmaker thinks and works. Examining actual day to day problems he faces, students will also learn and study various issues around documentary, such as ethics, economics, reality vs fiction, subjectivity vs objectivity, etc. At the end of the course, each student must write and submit a final paper which discusses such issues analyzing my films and methods.

Date & Time: July 28-31, August 1, 10:30-12:00, 13:15-14:45, 15:00-16:30
Location: TBA
Language: English and Japanese

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Welcome all students who are interested in cinema and media studies.

If you have questions about it, you may contact Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano at wadamarciano.mitsuyo.6w[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp.