JK01001Introduction-Transcultural Studies (Lecture)
| Numbering Code | G-LET36 6JK01 LE36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture |
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| Language | English | Day/Period | Mon.3 |
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Ｍｉｔｓｕｙｏ Ｗａｄａ－Ｍａｒｃｉａｎｏ (Graduate School of Letters Professor) VASUDEVA，Somdev (Graduate School of Letters Professor) ASATO WAKO (Graduate School of Letters Associate Professor) Bjorn-Ole Kamm (Graduate School of Letters Senior Lecturer) |
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| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
The concept of transculturality can be used both as a heuristic device (e.g. multi-perspectivity and multi-locality) and focus of study (e.g. cultural entanglements). It is embedded in a large and very heterogeneous landscape of theoretical and methodological approaches that come from various disciplines and cover different thematic, historical and geographic areas. Jointly conducted by four researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, this lecture class will discuss the contributions and limitations of inherited and current notions of transculturality. Focusing on three study areas, "Knowledge, Belief and Religion," "Society, Economy and Governance" and "Visual, Media and Material Culture," and the respective fields of research of the lecturers, theories and methods will be tested, e.g. in explorations of diasporic cinema and cultural identity politics, circular movements in the development of "Modern Postural Yoga," and the relationship between patterns of migration and modes of institutionalization. The goal of the course is to introduce students to diverse disciplinary perspectives enabling them to frame their own studies of transcultural phenomena and perspectives. Study Focus: all. Modules: Introduction to Transcultural Studies. ************* IMPORTANT: Depending on the pandemic situation, this class will be offered in an online or hybrid format. Please check “Class support” or PandA for detailed information. 注意：パンデミック状況により、本科目はオンライン・ハイブリッド形式で提供される予定です。詳しくは「授業サポート」またはPandAをご確認ください。 ************* |
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| Course Goals | Students will gain insights into the historical development of theories of transculturality and their application in practical research in the humanities and social sciences. This will allow them to formulate own study projects and prepare them for research dealing with the creation and crossing of cultural borders, entangled histories and forms of circulation. | ||
| Schedule and Contents |
The course will be offered in accordance with the following general structure. A detailed plan for each class will be announced in the introduction. IMPORTANT・重要: Parts (1) Introduction and (2) Foundations will be offered online (remote) only or in hybrid form (please go to PandA for the most up-to-date information and the Zoom link). (1) Introduction [1 week] The Introduction to the course covers the aims, methods, requirements and overall organization of the class, including self-introductions by the lecturers and first examples from the three study foci, "Knowledge, Belief and Religion" (KBR), "Society, Economy and Governance" (SEG), and "Visual, Media and Material Culture" (VMC). (2) Foundations [3 weeks] - (lecturer: Bjorn-Ole KAMM) The first three-week section of lectures discusses transculturality within the matrix of associated terms and metaphors, such as hybridity, as well as related-but-different perspectives, postcolonialism for example, followed by an introduction into transculturality as heuristic principle and its methodological consequences. (3) Knowledge, Belief and Religion [3 weeks] - (lecturer: Somdev VASUDEVA) During the following three weeks we examine the various circular movements underlying the development of what came to be called "Modern Postural Yoga." In the first lecture, we investigate historical precursors of the relevant phenomena, explore influences of British and Scandinavian physical culture on the development of postural yoga in India in the second lecture, and consider the ways in which the latter was received (back) in Britain and globally in the final class of this section. (4) Society, Economy and Governance [3 weeks] - (lecturer: ASATO Wako) This section will deal with people on the move and practices of control and institutionalization, for example, through immigration policies, minority policies, social integration policies or citizenship, particularly in Asian countries. The focus on cross-border migration and demographic challenges shifts to supranational entities, such as ASEAN, in the last week. (5) Visual, Media and Material Culture [3 weeks] - (lecturer: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO) The last section focuses on transculturality in film and identity politics, dealing with individual filmmaking in PRC in the first week, and looking at aspects of diasporic cinema, especially the concept of transcultural queerness in the second. The last week will examine various archival film practices in the relationship with the realm of visual media. (6) Review and Feedback The lecture class will be accompanied by a weekly discussion class ("tutorium," Code: JK02001), in which students discuss the content of the lectures and the readings, and clarify their understanding of transculturality. Participation in this class is mandatory for students of the major Master in Transcultural Studies and highly recommended for all other students joining from other majors. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Active participation in discussion (20%), preparation of mandatory readings and regular submission of short comments/discussion questions (20%); written examination (60%). | ||
| Course Requirements | None | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Regular homework for this lecture class (readings and short comprehension essays) will play an important role in this course. | ||
| References, etc. |
The course materials as well as lecture slides will be made available via the course PandA webpage. Introductory readings: Appadurai, Arjun. 2005 (1996). Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Brosius, Christiane. 2010. India's Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi: Routledge. Elkins, James et al (eds). 2010. Art and Globalization. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. Morphy, Howard and Morgan Perkins. 2006. Anthropology of Art. The Reader. Malden: Blackwell. Juneja, Monica. 2011 "Global Art History and the 'Burden of Representation'." In: Hans Belting/Andrea Buddensieg (eds). Global Studies: Mapping the Contemporary. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. Juneja, Monica and Christian Kravagna. 2013. "Understanding Transculturalism." In Transcultural Modernisms, ed. Fahim Amir et.al. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 22-33. Lackner, Michael, Iwo Amelung and Joachim Kurtz. 2001. New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in late Quing China. Leiden: Brill. Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Sartori, Andrew. 2008. Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Kitty Zijlmans/ Wilfried van Damme (eds). 2008. World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Amsterdam: Valiz. |
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