表題番号：2024R-008
日付：2025/03/27
研究課題Racial Utopianism and Cultural Representation from a Comparative Perspective
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 文学学術院 文化構想学部 | 教授 | チャン エドワード ケイ |
| （連携研究者） | University of Cambridge | graduate student | Julian Jun ABE |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | graduate student | TOYOTA Kaomi (CHOW Jia Wen) |
| （連携研究者） | Keio University | assistant professor | Michael LARSON |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | graduate student | SAKAMOTO Azumi |
| （連携研究者） | University of Florida | professor | Phillip E. WEGNER |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | graduate student | IRIE Tomoko |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | undergraduate student | Forrest BOR |
| （連携研究者） | Kobe University | lecturer | NAKAMURA Asami |
| （連携研究者） | Rutgers University | professor | Alex ZAMALIN |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | graduate student | Eric MARGOLIS |
| （連携研究者） | University of Tokyo | project lecturer | IIDA Mayu |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | professor | MORITA Norimasa |
- 研究成果概要
- Combined with an “International Academic Events Organization Grant” from Waseda’s International Office, the Tokutei Kadai grant funded a three-day interdisciplinary symposium entitled “Utopia/Dystopia, Race, Nation,” bringing two eminent scholars from the US to Japan, Dr. Phillip E. Wegner and Dr. Alex Zamalin, to present and meet with students and faculty from several universities in Japan. The event was organized by Edward K. CHAN, professor of American studies in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University. The visit by Professors Wegner and Zamalin included research consultations with six Waseda students to discuss their research and future plans. The presentations included the following: Julian Jun ABE, graduate student, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge: “Hula as an Embodied Utopia: Shared Cultural Kinship Beyond Blood”; TOYOTA Kaomi (CHOW Jia Wen), graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “Imagining Japanese Identity in Contemporary Japan”; Michael LARSON, assistant professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University: “Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren and Utopia without Totality”; SAKAMOTO Azumi, graduate student, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University: “Invasive Species and Nationalist Fears: Racialized Narratives of the African ‘Killer’ Bee”; Phillip E. WEGNER, professor and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English, University of Florida: “Dystopia, Allegory, and Utopia in the Contemporary Novel”; IRIE Tomoko, graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “Racial/National Identity in Dystopia: An Analysis of Sakasama no Patema”; Forrest BOR, undergraduate student, Global Studies in Japanese Culture, Waseda University: “The ‘Demi-human’ as a (Non)racial Other in Tokyo Ghoul (Sui Ishida)”; NAKAMURA Asami, lecturer in English literature, Graduate School of International Studies, Kobe University: “Queering Waste in Fresh Kill (1994) by Shu Lea Cheang and Slow River (1995) by Nicola Griffith”; Alex ZAMALIN, department chair of Africana Studies and professor of Africana studies and political science, Rutgers University: “The Future of Utopia: Thinking with Afrofuturism”; Eric MARGOLIS, graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “‘Japaneseness’ as a Paratext: Reading National Identity Out of Translated Contemporary Fiction”; IIDA Mayu, project lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo: “You Can Only Be the Utopia/n: Racial Politics and Utopianism amid Troubled Times”; MORITA Norimasa, professor, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University: “British Skinhead Culture and the National Front”