Date and Time: Friday, 29 July 2022, 5:00pm-6:30pm
Venue: EAA Seminar Room, Building 101, Komaba Campus / Zoom:
https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/83162663300?pwd=VTVkU2JuNkIvaFNtZGptY3k3QXdOdz09
Language: English and Japanese
Abstract:
The past decades have seen an increase in theories envisioning multi-cultural encounters and analyzing the hidden and obvious power dynamics that govern them. This essay suggests an innovative approach to assess and negotiate these theories. It introduces a metapsychology, illustrated by original pictures and poems, to examine multicultural engagement, to negotiate the major representatives among the leading theoretical responses to diversity and globalism, to develop a heuristic model that interprets each theory in their own right, and to envision innovative strategies that enable co-existence across boundaries, imagined and historically sedimented. Finally, it proposes a brand new theoretical approach to the study of both cultures and theories.
Speaker:
Gereon Kopf (Luther College)
Commentator:
Hishikawa Akiko (Aichi University)
Moderator:
Cheung Ching-yuen (The University of Tokyo)