The Flying University of Transnational Humanities is ‘in session’ once per year for one week, and will normally be held during summer vacation. The host site changes on an annual or bi-annual basis and rotates between partner institutions. FUTH online runs year-round: through its dedicated website, a permanent online space will be provided for interactive discussions. All institutions, departments, and scholars are welcome to participate both offline and online.
Each year, FUTH will have a different cross-disciplinary theme around which the sessions will be organized. Renowned scholars from partner and other institutions will be invited to share their ideas in lectures and discussions. The FUTH steering and advisory committees, in conjunction with faculty members of partner institutions and other specialists, will prepare lecture syllabi and reading lists. Student participants are expected to study the readings in advance of each lecture and seminar discussion. A selected number of participants will also have an opportunity to present their ongoing research. All lectures, seminars and presentations will be held in English, in principle, while the possibility of translingual practices will be explored.
For the initial three years (2010–2012), the overarching theme of FUTH is ‘borders’. There have been numerous studies on how borders are constructed, negotiated, and policed and how they are simultaneously transgressed, challenged, and renegotiated. Borders are no longer seen simply as physical divisions but also as discursive practices and cultural institutions. However, the multiplicity and hybridity of borders (e.g., national, ethnic, cultural, geographical, gender, political, economic, etc.), as well as their transnational scalability (e.g., local, national, supranational, global, etc.), has yet to be intensively investigated.
The 2nd FUTH will take place at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 25-29, 2011. Under the subheading of ‘Border-crossing Self’, we hope to gather diverse research and knowledge on border-related (cross-border or bordering) issues such as migration, ethnicity, language, citizenship and gender and open up a forum for discussions on the (un)making of the trans/national self.
Day 1: June 25 (Saturday)
09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Welcome Remarks
Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Korea)
09:30-11:00 Lecture and Q&A
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University, USA)
Translation as Bordering: Translation and the Indeterminacy of National Language
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Lecture and Q&A
Boris Buden (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Austria)
Translation – A Border Crossing or a Border Making Experience
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Chinese Language and Culture for the Non-Chinese: Cross-border Imaginaries of the Self and Other and their Impact on Transnational Networks
- Heather Schmidt (University of Alberta, Canada)
2. Translating Chinese Knowledge in the 19th Century Japan
- Michael Facius (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Group B
1. Arts Residents in the Service of Cultural Diplomacy?
- Bettina Rösler (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
2. The Parameters of Social Stratification in the Soviet Society: Crossing the Class Paradigm
- Natalia Laas (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Recovering in a Political Muddle: Being Ethnic Korean and the Political Self in New China
- Chong Eun Ahn (University of Washington, USA)
Group B
1. On Toyo and Seiyo (the East and the West) of Tetsuzo Tanikawa
- Ling Zhang (Nagoya University, Japan)
2. The Separation between Religion and Politics in Japan: The Analysis of Discourses between Two Visits to Yaskuni Shrine
- Tatsuya Harashina (Waseda University, Japan)
Day 2: June 26 (Sunday)
09:30-11:00 Lecture and Q&A
David Newman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Closing, Opening and Re-Closing of Border: A Space-Time Perspective
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Lecture and Q&A
Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. An Attempt of Historic Narration on Sino-Indian 1962 Border Dispute
- Yi Yee Goh (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
2. The Creation of an Image and a Language of the Holocaust through the Video Interviews of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History
- Jan Taubitz (Erfurt University, Germany)
Group B
1. The Trans/national Cultural Politics between Korea and Japan – In the Case of the ‘New Korean Wave’ and Discourses about ‘Korean in Japan (Zainichi)’
- JaYoung Oh (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
2. North Korean Women Defectors: Passive Victims or Agents of their own Survival?
- Sean Daly (The George Washington University, USA)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Colonial Haunts: Placing Japanese History and Memory in the Northern Mariana Islands
- Jessica Jordan (University of California-San Diego, USA)
2. Being National as Being Natural: Representation and Contemporary Nationalism in the Films Promoted by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces
- Noriko Sudo (Yokohama City University, Japan)
Group B
1. Cross Culturalism in Oumar Tall’s Jihad (1852-1864)
- Mamoudou Sy (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal)
2. Transnational Dimensions and Development Fiction Paradigm in Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain and Adaobi Tricia Nwaobani’s I Do Not Come To You By Chance
- Oluwole Coker (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria)
17:45-19:00 Dinner
19:00-20:50 Film Screening
The Border City II (2009, Documentary, Director: Hyungsook Hong)
20:50-21:30 Q&A with Director
Day 3: June 27 (Monday)
09:30-11:00 Lecture and Q&A
Rada Iveković (University Jean Monnet - St. Etienne, France)
Those Other Borderlands. Displacing Eurasia
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Lecture and Q&A
Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Korea)
Border-crossing Intelligentsias in the Cold War Era: South Korean and Polish Dissidents in the Crossfire
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. An Autistic Interface? The Image of the Other in South and North Korean Cinema (1998-2010)
- Benjamin Joinau (EHESS, France)
2. The ‘Border-crossing Self’, or: How a (Colonial) Self is Constructed through the Border-crossing Other
- Minu Haschemi Yekani (European University Institute, Italy)
Group B
1. Transnational Militarism: Border-Crossing, Self-Formation and Radicalization in the German Imperial Officer Corps (1871-1914)
- Christoph Kamissek (European University Institute, Italy)
2. Constructing Identity across Language and Cultural Borders in Time of Conflict – Military Interpreters in the Allied Coalition during the First World War
- Franziska Heimburger (EHESS, France)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Liberate and Invade. The Soldiers of the First French Army, from the ‘Ligne Bleue des Voges’ to the Rhine
- C. Miot (ENS Cachan, France )
Group B
1. The Meaning and Heritage of the Public Buildings in Seoul during the Colonial Period: A Trans-cultural Perspective
- Yu Yang (Columbia University, USA)
2. The Common Ancestors Theory (Ilsôn dongjoron; Nissen dôsoron) as Political Tool
- Tobias Scholl (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany)
17:45-19:00 Dinner
19:00-20:30 Film Screening
Whose Is This Song? (2003, Documentary, Director: Adela Peeva)
Comments by: Rada Iveković
Day 4: June 28 (Tuesday)
09:30-11:00 Lecture and Q&A
Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna, Italy)
Border as a Method: Movements and Struggles of Migration in a Globalizing World
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Lecture and Q&A
William Walters (Carleton University, Canada)
“The vehicles are missing”. Why we should grant ships, railway tunnels and other material objects a more central place in studies of the contested politics of migration.
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Rearticulating Territoriality, Identity and Rights: The Theoretical Implications of Migration in the Context of Europeanisation
- Chenchen Zhang (Luiss University of Rome, Italy)
2. The Repatriation of Former Forced Labourers to the Netherlands and to Belarus after WWII
- Tatsiana Vaitulevitch (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Group B
1. Why a Sociology of Space Helps to Research Borders
- Sabrina Grosse Kettler (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany)
2. Entering the Island of Torishima from a Bird’s Eye View
- Coin Tyner (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:45 Student Presentation & Feedback
Group A
1. Maid for Work: Globalisation, Gender and Migration in South Asia
- Neha Wadhawan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
2. The Borderlands of Belief: North Korean Defectors and Strategic Intimacy
- Sarah Chee (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
Group B
1. Cosmopolitan Regimes and Jurisgenerative Norms: The European Court of Human Rights and the Reconceptualization of Citizenship in Secular Europe
- Joanna Rozpedowski (University of South Florida, USA)
2. Crossing the Oder. The Memory of the Flight and Expulsion of German Expellees in the Federal Republic of Germany 1990-2010.
- Arddun Arwyn (Aberystwyth University, UK)
17:45- Farewell Party
Day 5: June 29 (Wednesday)
10:00-11:30 Wrap-Up Discussion
11:30 Adjournment