Kyoto-Heidelberg-Strasbourg Workshop 2024

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

Strasbourg Workshop

The workshop in Heidelberg takes place on March 25, 2024.
Location: Misha (Salle de la Table ronde; 9:30-12:30), Escarpe (Amphi 29; 12:30~)

Program