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ProfessorLAW, GrahamDoctor of Philosophy in English Literature (University of Sussex)RESEARCHFIELDMedia History(radio, television), and the internet “revolution” (networking, digitalization) – the main focus will be on social and cultural rather than scienti c/technological aspects of change. In the earlier part of each semester, class sessions will be led by the course instructor, while the later part will be given over to presentations and related discussion by student members concerning their own research projects.This seminar will be dedicated to the comparative study of the history of communications media in industrialized (or industrializing) societies, in particular, with regard to Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Though the course may consider each of the four major media transformations of the last two centuries – the periodical “revolution” (newspapers, magazines), the audio-visual “revolution” (phonograph, cinema), the broadcasting “revolution” societies, in particular, with regard to Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Though the course may concern any of the four major media transformations of the last two centuries – the periodical “revolution” (newspapers, magazines), the audio-visual “revolution” (phonograph, cinema), the broadcasting “revolution” (radio, television), and the internet “revolution” (networking, digitalization) – the main emphasis will be on socio-cultural rather than scienti c/technological aspects of change.There will be two main educational aims: (1) to train all students to be able to deal with the general methodological problems, both theoretical and practical, associated with advanced-level research in the eld of media history; and (2) to support each individual student in independently creating and developing a feasible research project appropriate for a doctoral program, and in bringing it to completion in the form of a persuasive written dissertation. The intellectual focus will be on the comparative study of the history of communications media in industrialized (or industrializing) Doctoral ProgramMaster’s Program Culture and MediaDIRECTED RESEARCHProfessorASO, TakashiPh.D. in Comparative Literature (State University of New York at Buffalo)RESEARCHFIELD Culture and Translation Postmodernism and American CultureAmerican culture rst, then to produce a culture of their own where their native Vietnamese culture is mixed with American culture in so many ways. In this seminar, we want to focus on this process and dynamism of making another culture out of two traditional cultures. We will analyze; 1) translation and transition processes between the mainstream culture and the minority culture; what constitutes the so-called hybrid culture where the process of translation is very important; how globalization affects the construction and constitution of our culture today.In our world of globalization, what is at stake for us is not only how to communicate beyond different cultures and different languages but also how we can construct and reconstruct a new culture out of two or more different cultures. Take Vietnamese American culture, for example: people in Vietnam started to move to the United States and other western nations during and after the war in Vietnam. As a result, Vietnamese immigrants, in particular, those frequently categorized as 1.5 generationers in the United States, have worked very hard to assimilate themselves to DIRECTED RESEARCHchanges under the process of globalization, since American culture, however dominant it might be, has to change itself when it collides and negotiate with another culture. In this seminar, we want to draw attention to this process of cultural collision and negotiation so that we would analyze the ways in which culture changes. We also want to focus on the process of cultural hybridization or cultural translation where two or more cultures mix with each other.It is said that American Culture since the end of World War II has contributed to the formation of the so-called “global culture.” Indeed, the United States has been very in uential with its military and economic power throughout the world and, therefore, it also has exerted soft power extensively over other countries and nations. This is why some critics argue that global culture is American culture and that globalization is Americanization. In fact, it is not only non-U.S. culture but also American culture itself that undergoes radical Doctoral ProgramMaster’s ProgramProfessorPh.D. in Comparative Literature (University of California, San Diego)YOSHIMOTO, MitsuhiroRESEARCHFIELD Visual CultureMedia and Cinema Studieslooking at images/being looked at as images, and the possibilities/limitations of visual culture studies as an academic discipline. The ultimate purpose of the seminar is to help students re ne their ability to think about the question of visual culture critically and come up with their original ideas for a master’s thesis.This seminar will explore what visual culture is from a variety of theoretically informed perspectives. The types of visual images to be analyzed include not only lm, television, photography, painting, etc., but also images for surveillance, security and social control (e.g., CCTV cameras, high-tech scanners). We will examine the meanings and value of visual images, the political implications of DIRECTED RESEARCHand socio-political issues not as a supplementary context but as the fundamental conditions of its possibility. Before nishing this seminar (which is taught as a series over multiple terms), students are expected to complete and submit a research paper to a refereed academic journal published outside Japan.Through a combination of closely supervised tutorials and group discussions, students in this PhD seminar will pursue an advanced study of visual culture. We will methodically examine the formal and aesthetic speci city of different types of visual culture (e.g., lm, television, video games, photography, painting, architecture, etc.), and at the same time, try to theorize visual culture in relation to economic Doctoral ProgramMaster’s ProgramWASEDA UNIVERSITY | GSICCS13

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