Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
This study focus investigates the production, proliferation, and reception of images and objects as well as their collection, display, and reconfiguration with a view to the human agency involved.
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?
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?
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK50001
This practice-oriented and interactive seminar seeks to establish an understanding of theories of transculturality, interactivity, immersion, and user agency and various angles of valuable methodology for the study of games and gaming.
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Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK33001
The focus of this practice-oriented and interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to engage transculturality in the cross-disciplinary research field of game studies.
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Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK36001
The Transcultural Cinema Forum in 2025 will consider what “cinema” means: the cinema, born at the end of the 19th century and regarded as the king of entertainment throughout the 20th century, is undergoing a major transformation in its form with the advent of the Internet in the 21st century. The purpose of this course is to reconsider the question “What Is cinema?” from the perspective of the year 2025.
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Teacher: OKAMOTO Takeshi, KITA Chigusa, MATSUNAGA Shinji
Course Code: JK11007
VTuberは、「メディア」「コンテンツ」「コミュニケーション」が連綿と紡いできた文化的、社会的、産業的な蓄積の結節点にいる存在である。
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This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.
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Teacher: OKAMOTO Takeshi
Course Code: JK39004
「社会学」とはなんでしょうか。授業担当者は「社会学者」と形容されることもありますが、博士号は「観光学」で取得しています。
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Teacher: Akito INOUE
Course Code: JK11004
「ゲーム」とはなんだろうか。「ゲーム」という概念は「物語」「自由」などと同様に人文学的にも社会科学的にも重要な概念であるにもかかわらず、近年に至るまで「ゲーム」に関わる研究はあまり精緻な議論が進まず、多くの人が興味を持ちながらもホイジンガやカイヨワを参照するところから、議論が更新されない状況が長年続いてきた。
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