Transcultural Flows of Diversity
Every year in February or March, the Graduate School of Letters sends a student delegation to its European partners in Strasbourg and Heidelberg to learn about exchange possibilities, participate in joint workshops, and get to know fellow students. This program is organised by the Division of the Joint Degree Master of Arts in Transcultural Studies, a collaborative degree program of Kyoto University and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). Graduate students in this program also join the workshops.
Participating students deepen their understanding of the dynamics of transculturality and cultural exchange by studying various related phenomena, this year focusing on diversity. Questions of diversity concern representative examples such as class, gender and sexual orientation, including LGBTQ+, ranging to experiences, concepts and histories related to, for example, the neurodiversity movement (on the human rights of autistic and ADHD people). The purpose of this visit to the European partners and the two joined workshops is to ask students to engage in academic background talks about these questions and express their own thoughts in talks, followed by an exchange of ideas with fellow students concerning cultural negotiation and transculturation.
Heidelberg Workshop
The workshop in Heidelberg takes place on March 21, 2024.
Location:
Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg
Room: 400.02.12
Contact: Prof. Björn-Ole Kamm | Poster
Program
(subject to change!)
Time | Topic |
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10:00-10:20 | Welcome, Introduction |
10:25-10:40 | Takase Megumi, Yoshihama Miyabi: Aro / Ace Umbrella |
10:45-11:00 | Fujiyasu Miku, Hashizume Shota: Zainichi-Koreans: Higashi-Kujo Madang Center |
11:05-11:25 | Sugimura Fumi: Hate Speech and Hate Crimes against Museums: Challenges of Postcolonial Memory Activism in Japan |
11:30-11:50 | Jocelyn Montejo: Diversity within Museums |
12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-13:50 | Nathaly Paola González Rodríguez: Colombian Imaginaries of the Japanese between 1905 and 1929 |
13:55-14:15 | Sora Braën: Japanese Settlements in Canada at the Beginning of the 20th Century |
14:20-14:40 | Wang Tianyi: Cracks and Cream: The Hidden Politics and Narrative in the Region Revival Art Festival Projects in Japan |
14:40-14:50 | Break |
14:50-15:10 | Wong Hui Yan: Cross-Dressing before and during Meiji |
15:15-15:35 | Wang Xingyi: Zhang Yuan, Pioneer in the Chinese Independent Film Movement |
15:40-16:00 | General Discussion |
Strasbourg Workshop
The workshop in Heidelberg takes place on March 25, 2024.
Location: TBA
Program
(in preparation)