Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
This module builds upon the qualifications the students have acquired through the introductory module.
Teacher: Katharina RODE-KAYA
Course Code: JK11003
In this intensive seminar, we will approach the art and politics Japanese Meiji era (1868-1912), and navigate their complexity through separate case studies that are often transcultural in nature.
Continue reading “Aesthetics, Materiality, and Politics: An Intensive Introduction to Meiji Art”
In this graduate seminar, we will learn about various women documentaries and writings from the 1990s to present.
Continue reading “Cinema and Media Studies Seminar: Women and Documentary in East Asia and Documentary Writing”
Teacher: Anastasia FEDOROVA
Course Code: JK11008
Our introductory course explores the relationship between film and reality, with a particular focus on the evolution of documentary cinema, a genre that has long positioned itself as the most “authentic” and “reliable” means of engaging with the world.
Continue reading “Conceptualizing the Real: History of Documentary Cinema”
Teacher: Justine LE FLOC’H
Course Code: JK09002
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.).
Continue reading “Feminist Theory”
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.
Continue reading “Learning the Power of Observation: How and Why I Make “Observational” Documentaries”
This course is designed for the study foci “Knowledge, Belief and Religion” (KBR) and “Visual, Media and Material Cultures” (VMC) and consists of the following three parts:
Continue reading “Scripts, Languages and Buddhist Scriptures”
Teacher: Campbell, Michael
Course Code: JK09004
Significant life events often have a transformative character, being such that a person emerges from them changed in far-reaching ways.
Continue reading “Transformative Experience”
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。
Continue reading “VTuber文化から考える情報社会”
Teacher: Fernando Gustavo WIRTZ
Course Code: JK09003
This course aims to offer students a first approach to fundamental texts of the Western Gender Theory.
Continue reading “Ways of Thinking Gender”
Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK10001
Although national borders typically structure academic research, historical change extends beyond individual nation-states.
Continue reading “What Is Transcultural History?”