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
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!)
Time | Topic |
---|---|
10:00-10:20 | Welcome, Introduction |
10:25-10:40 | Takase Megumi, Yoshihama Miyabi: Aro / Ace Umbrella |
10:45-11:00 | Fujiyasu Miku, Hashizume Shota: Zainichi-Koreans: Higashi-Kujo Madang Center |
11:05-11:25 | Sugimura Fumi: Hate Speech and Hate Crimes against Museums: Challenges of Postcolonial Memory Activism in Japan |
11:30-11:50 | Jocelyn Montejo: Diversity within Museums |
12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-13:50 | Nathaly Paola González Rodríguez: Colombian Imaginaries of the Japanese between 1905 and 1929 |
13:55-14:15 | Sora Braën: Japanese Settlements in Canada at the Beginning of the 20th Century |
14:20-14:40 | Wang Tianyi: Cracks and Cream: The Hidden Politics and Narrative in the Region Revival Art Festival Projects in Japan |
14:40-14:50 | Break |
14:50-15:10 | Wong Hui Yan: Cross-Dressing before and during Meiji |
15:15-15:35 | Wang Xingyi: Zhang Yuan, Pioneer in the Chinese Independent Film Movement |
15:40-16:00 | General Discussion |
Strasbourg Workshop
The workshop in Heidelberg takes place on March 25, 2024.
Location: TBA
Program
(in preparation)
Book Talk: Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty (2024/2/19)
The Transcultural Studies Division holds a special seminar entitled “Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty, offered by Professor Paul Kreitman from Columbia University on February 19, Monday.
Continue reading “Book Talk: Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty (2024/2/19)”Happy New Year 2024!
The Transcultural Studies Division of the Graduate School of Letters wishes all students and faculty a
Happy New Year!
Continue reading “Happy New Year 2024!”HeKKSaGOn 2023 — Role-Play Initiative
New project initiative at the 9th HeKKSaGOn Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference in Göttingen.
Continue reading “HeKKSaGOn 2023 — Role-Play Initiative”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
Location: Lecture 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.
Transcultural Learning Tool: reLarp
As part of the JSPS-funded research project “Transcultural Learning through Simulated Co-Presence: How to Realize Other Cultures and Life-Worlds,” Prof. Dr. Björn-Ole Kamm developed and now released the debriefing and visualization tool “reLarp.”
Continue reading “Transcultural Learning Tool: reLarp”Online Student Orientation (2023/07/14)
Interested students are invited to online Q&As on July 14, 2023, during which they can ask questions about the Transcultural Studies major and how to apply for a position in the joint degree program.
Continue reading “Online Student Orientation (2023/07/14)”Video Report Strasbourg-Heidelberg Excursion 2022
Transcultural Cinema Forum 2023
The Transcultural Studies Division holds lecture series as a part of the course, “Transcultural Asian Cinema” conducted by Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.
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