The objective of this seminar is to read and discuss some classical feminist texts of the 20th century (Beauvoir, Crenshaw, Depreciado, Gilligan, hooks, Lordre, Sedgwick, Shiva, Spivak, Ueno, etc.).
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Italian neorealism (1945-1952) was a crucial movement in film history, marking an aware move away from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking and focusing on realistic characters and stories.
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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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This seminar introduces students to issues related to the historical study of animals.
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This semi-intensive course provides students with a diverse overview of Japan’s international development assistance policy and practice of the Japanese government, business actors, and civil society organizations based on actual cases.
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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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This course examines Israeli cinema and Israeli-Palestinian through philosophical and aesthetical lenses, exploring the intersection of film and philosophical concepts.
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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: SOUDA Kazuhiro
Course Code: JK11002
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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