Philosophical Expressions: Indian Philosophy in Japan and China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Tetsugakudo Park(Philosophy Hall Park)

This presentation examines the development of philosophy as a global discipline, focusing on the early 20th-century integration of Indian philosophy into Japan and China.
Date & Time: 2024/03/29 (Fri), 16:00-17:30
Location: Faculty of Letters, Lecture Room 2

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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

(subject to change!)

TimeTopic
10:00-10:20Welcome, Introduction
10:25-10:40Takase Megumi, Yoshihama Miyabi: Aro / Ace Umbrella
10:45-11:00Fujiyasu Miku, Hashizume Shota: Zainichi-Koreans: Higashi-Kujo Madang Center
11:05-11:25Sugimura Fumi: Hate Speech and Hate Crimes against Museums: Challenges of Postcolonial Memory Activism in Japan
11:30-11:50Jocelyn Montejo: Diversity within Museums
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-13:50Nathaly Paola González Rodríguez: Colombian Imaginaries of the Japanese between 1905 and 1929
13:55-14:15Sora Braën: Japanese Settlements in Canada at the Beginning of the 20th Century
14:20-14:40Wang Tianyi: Cracks and Cream: The Hidden Politics and Narrative in the Region Revival Art Festival Projects in Japan
14:40-14:50Break
14:50-15:10Wong Hui Yan: Cross-Dressing before and during Meiji
15:15-15:35Wang Xingyi: Zhang Yuan, Pioneer in the Chinese Independent Film Movement
15:40-16:00General Discussion

Strasbourg Workshop

The workshop in Heidelberg takes place on March 25, 2024.
Location: TBA

Program

(in preparation)

Intensive Lecture Course : Learning the Power of Observation (2023/7/31-2023/8/4)

The Transcultural Studies Division holds an intensive lecture course entitled “Learning the Power of Observation” (Foundation I – Seminar (VMC)), taught by Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda on July 31 and August 1-4.

In this intensive course, he will explain how and why he takes his particular approach to documentary filmmaking, covering all phases of filmmaking from filming to editing to marketing. It will give students an opportunity to learn how a documentary filmmaker thinks and works. Examining actual day to day problems he faces, students will also learn and study various issues around documentary, such as ethics, economics, reality vs fiction, subjectivity vs objectivity, etc. At the end of the course, each student must write and submit a final paper which discusses such issues analyzing my films and methods.

Date & Time: July 31, August 1-4 10:30-12:00, 13:15-14:45, 15:00-16:30
LocationLecture Room 9, Basement Floor, Research Building No.2 (Map㉞)
Language: English and Japanese

Poster

Welcome all students who are interested in cinema and media studies.

Prior registration is required.
Click here to register.

If you have questions about it, you may contact Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano at wadamarciano.mitsuyo.6w[a]kyoto-u.ac.jp.