Teacher: KAWASHIMA Takashi
Course Code: JK41001
In this class, we will discuss the story of “Heidi” (1880/81) by Johanna Spyri from the perspective of comparative literature.
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Immigration and Refugee Policy in Asia
Teacher: Che Singh KOCHHAR-GEORGE
Course Code: JK38005
The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of immigration and refugee policies in Asia.
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Course Type: Lecture & Seminar (Tutorium)
Study Focus: Foundations, KBR, SEG, VMC
Term: Spring
Teachers: ASATO Wako, Björn-Ole KAMM, Somdev VASUDEVA, Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK01001 (JK02001)
Foundational lecture series that introduces students to diverse disciplinary approaches enabling them to frame their own studies of transcultural phenomena and perspectives.
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Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK45001
When we conjure up “the environment” in our mind’s eye, what do we see?
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Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK54001
How does culture influence our ethical ideas? How can we think of an ethics suitable for our multi-/trans-cultural societies? What obligations do we have toward the Other and toward others?
Japan’s early diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Teacher: SANO Mayuko
Course Code: JK38003
This course aims to explore Japanese diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate, through in-depth readings of documents (such as memoirs, diaries, and diplomatic correspondences) written by people who worked on the ground during that time.
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Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK40003
In this course, we will explore some of the most important intellectual debates that took place in Japan between 1930 and 1945, situating them within their broader transcultural and global contexts.
Learning the Power of Observation: How and Why I Make “Observational” Documentaries
In this intensive course, I will explain how and why I take my particular approach to documentary filmmaking, covering all phases of filmmaking from filming to editing to marketing.
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Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK41003
This course explores the theoretical role of myth in the construction of political subjectivity. In other words, how are political subjects—such as organizations, classes, or parties—constituted through affective and emotional imagery?
Selected Readings in Classical Japanese Literature
Teacher: YUKAWA Shikiko
Course Code: JK37002
The aim of this course is to seek and discuss Japanese values, ideas and attitudes toward certain universal themes, such as love, death, human nature and aesthetic beauty through a close reading of selected representative works of classical Japanese literature.
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