Universitat de València
Universitat de València
«Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia» is a course funded by Eurasia Foundation (from Asia) and will take place from 19th April to 21st June 2024, at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia. This course challenges Eurocentric approaches in higher education by expanding and promoting its current offer of East Asian Studies, expanding the offer of content at the University of Valencia by going beyond European languages and cultures and engaging in decolonising the curriculum from critical theories and postcolonial studies, promoting new ways of thinking the world from East Asian societies and cultures. This project goes through the complexity of the East Asian cultures and histories, by proposing new approaches that examine their diversity and transcultural elements. Its goal is helping the audience to challenge essentialist views on East Asian countries, assessing them not as isolated boxes but as fluid contexts which have evolved throughout the years through interactions that go beyond national boundaries and hegemonic cultural domination.
The sessions will be grouped in three themes that cover different aspects related to diversity and transculturality: first, “Transnational Memories in the Global History” in which speakers (Yang, Miller, Lee, Dueñas, Vickers, Kushner) will show how the history and the memorialisation of history in East Asia goes beyond national boundaries and may be regarded as global history. Second, “Transcultural East Asia” in which speakers (Cawley, Gerow, Fan, Ferrari, Fortes) will show how cultures in East Asia cannot be regarded as isolated boxes, but on the contrary, have always been exposed to transnational cultural and conceptual flows and as such are constantly evolving, adapting and changing. Third, “Minorities: Transcultural Heritage” is a section in which speakers (Howell, Grant, Kato, Centeno) will challenge the predominance of hegemonic cultures in East Asian Studies, by exploring the history and culture of East Asia from minorities and castaways, whose voices are traditionally neglected.
Dates: April 19 – June 21. Friday afternoon/evening.
Venue: Aula S06, Facultat de Filologia , Traducció i Comunicació.
Price: Free, 100% funded by the Eurasia Foundation (from Asia) but registration is required. First come first served basis.
Certificate: To obtain the certificate for this course you must attend at least 80% of the lectures.
Duration: 34 hours.
5-5.30pm: Opening. Carles Padilla (Vicerector of Internationalisation), José Antonio Calañas (Dean, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication), Enrique Cerezo (Vicedean of Internationalisation), Marcos Centeno (Tradiasia coordinator).
5.30-7pm: Owen Miller (Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies, SOAS)
Inconvenient Labour Heroes: Forgetting the role of Japanese engineers in North Korean industry
7-7.30pm: Break (drinks and snacks at the cafeteria)
7.30-9pm: Eunsook Yang (Assistant Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
La Religión y la Filosofía de los coreanos (in Spanish)
(CANCELLED) 3-5pm: Hyun Kyung Lee (Assistant professor, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University)
The distributed memorial-scape of ‘comfort women’ statues: the creation of transnational shared visual culture
5-7pm: Sonia Dueñas Moheda (Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III)
La revisión de la memoria histórica en el cine surcoreano contemporáneos (in Spanish)
5-7pm: Barak Kushner (Professor of East Asian History and Co-Chair of the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Cambridge)
When Justice Fails: Postwar East Asia and the struggles over memory and history
7-9pm: Edward Vickers (Professor, Kyushu Univ, Japan, UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship)
Three faces of an Asian hero – commemorating Koxinga (鄭成功) in China, Taiwan and Japan
5-7pm: Joon-Kon Chung (Eurasia Foundation)
A New Community Beyond the Nation State
5-7pm: Kevin Cawley (Dir Irish Inst Korean Studies, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork)
Transnational Interactions: Korea’s Religious and Philosophical Traditions
5-7pm: Aaron Gerow (Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies at Yale University)
The “Japaneseness” of Japanese Film Theory
7-9pm: Victor Fan (Reader in Film and Media Philosophy, Kings College London)
Ontogenetic Diversity: Rewriting China and the Sinophone through Independent Cinemas
5-7pm: Rossella Ferrari (Professor of Chinese Theatre, University of Vienna)
Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
7-9pm: Raúl Fortes (Associate Lecturer, UV)
Transculturalidad en las artes escénicas japonesas: el teatro nô y su revisión occidental (in Spanish)
5-7pm: Yoji Sato (Chairman, Eurasia Foundation)
The World will become One in the Near Future
5-7pm: David L. Howell (Professor of Japanese History and Professor of History at Harvard University)
What Castaways Tell Us about Nineteenth-Century Japan in Global History
5-7pm: Bruce Grant (Professor, New York University, NYU)
North of East Asia: Nivkhi and Siberian Indigeneity and Reformation
7-9pm: Laura Liverani (documentary photographer and filmmaker) and Kanako Uzawa (Hokkaido University)
Ainupuri. Counter-narratives of Ainu objects in museums. Screening and discussion with Laura Liverani and Kanako Uzawa
5-7pm: Kato Hirofumi (Professor, Dir of Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University)
Whose Heritage? Indigenous repatriation in Hokkaido, Japan
7-9pm: Marcos Centeno-Martin (Lecturer, Universitat de València)
Early Visual Representations of Ainu People by European Explorers
Organising Committee: Marcos Centeno (PI, UV), Raúl Fortes-Guerrero (UV), Jordi Serrano (UOC), Marta Cardona García (UAB), Amparo Montaner-Montava (UV), Eunsook Yang (external advisor, UCM), Daniel Chan (University of Edinburgh), Alberto Porta-Pérez (UJI), Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (UV), Maria Rosario Ferrer Simó (UEV), Jordi Tordera (Florida Universitaria), Nong-Ru Cheng Lee (UV), Daisuke Kishi (Universidad de Guadalajara, México), Antonio Blat, Terushi Morimoto (UV), Olga Pirozhenko (UV), Amparo Oliver (UV), Hyun Lee (UV), Gabriel Choi Choi, Eun Jin Moon.
UV volunteers: César Pellicer, Ana Prieto Crespo, Ramón Sanmatías Carot, Carlos Mascarell Moline, Irene Durá Capdevila, Lledó Gaya .
Academic Committee: Marcos Centeno (UV), Raúl Fortes-Guerrero (UV), Amparo Montaner-Montava (UV), Eunsook Yang (UCM), Carles Padilla (UV), Amparo Ricós (UV), Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (UV), Blai Guarné (UAB), Benno Herzog (UV), Gabriel Terol Rojo.
Collaborating Research Projects:
Vicerectorat d’Internacionalització i Multilingüisme
de la Universitat de València
Departament de Teoria dels Llenguatges i Ciències de la Comunicació
Institut Universitari de la Creativitat i Innovacions Educatives (IUCIE)
