[KS] The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH), June 11-16, 2010

[Sang-Hyun Kim]

*The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH)
- Summer School for Graduate Students and Young Scholars -*

The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) is an annual summer
school and year-round online forum for researchers and graduate students
from all over the world interested in the transnational paradigm of
humanistic inquiry.

The Flying University takes its name and immediate inspiration from Poland’s
Flying University, a roaming educational enterprise which offered
post-secondary education outside the remit of state control and government
censorship. FUTH is particularly concerned with developing critical
understandings that are resistant to the ideological and ideational hegemony
of the nation-state and the epistemological and hermeneutic conventions that
support it. This does not mean that FUTH seeks to dispense with the
“national” and construct a reified “transnational” to replace it or to
foster “transnationalism” as an ideological alternative to “nationalism.”
FUTH aims to free our imaginations from the regime of the nation-state and
to offer new ways of thinking about the political, social and cultural order
of the world, both past and present.

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. It will consist of conferences, lectures,
and seminars where renowned scholars from partner and other institutions
will be invited to share their ideas. 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 will
be “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. To
address this gap, the first FUTH—which takes place from June 11–16, 2010, at
the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang
University, Seoul, Korea—will focus on “regions” in their multiple forms and
examine them as sites of bordering practices and processes. Under the
subheading of “Regions and Regionalization,” a combination of lectures,
seminars, and presentation/feedback sessions—followed by a two-day
conference—will encourage students to problematize the often naturalized
categories of “Asia,” “Europe,” “Africa” or “Americas,” and to cultivate a
deeper, more contextual understanding of the making and unmaking of regions.


*<< Eligibility / How to Apply >>*

Applicants must be enrolled in postgraduate degree programs or have recently
completed their master’s or doctoral degrees, and major in the humanities
and social sciences—including history, literature, anthropology, cultural
studies and other related fields. Students of all nationalities are welcome
to apply. As enrolment numbers are limited, admission is based on merit.

The application form will soon be available online at
http://rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php. Please send the completed form and other
required materials in English *by April 1, 2010*, to:

Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture
College of Humanities, Hanyang University
Seoul 133-791, Korea

E-mail: hk.transnational at gmail.com
Fax: +82-2-2298-0542

*<< Costs / Accommodation >>*

There is no registration fee, and accommodation will be provided for all
accepted participants. However, participants are expected to arrange their
own funding for travel and daily living expenses. Travel grants may be made
available to a limited number of applicants who are not able to raise the
necessary funds. Those who need this grant must include a request with his
or her application, explaining why it is necessary.

*<< Steering Committee >>*

Jie-Hyun Lim, Hanyang University, Korea (Chair)
Charles Armstrong, Columbia University, USA
Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UK
Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dennis Galvan, University of Oregon, USA
Itagaki Ryuta, Doshisha University, Japan
Eun-Shil Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Peter Lambert, Aberystwyth University, UK
Joyce Liu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Matthias Middell, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Duke University, USA
Michael Schoenhals, Lund University, Sweden
Olivier Wieviorka, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France
Daqing Yang, George Washington University, USA

*<< Advisory Committee >>*

Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, USA
Alf Luedtke, Universität Erfurt, Germany
Mitani Hiroshi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sakai Naoki, Cornell University, USA

*<< Program >>*

- Date: June 11 – 16, 2010
- Venue: International Conference Room, Paiknam Library & Academic
Information Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
- Hosted by: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang
University, Seoul, Korea
- Sponsored by: National Research Foundation of Korea

- Theme: *BORDERS (I) – REGIONS AND REGIONALIZATION*

*< DAY 1: JUNE 11 (FRIDAY) >*

14:00-14:30 Registration

14:30-15:00 Opening Remarks
- Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Korea)
Welcome Address
- TBC / Chong Yang Kim (President, Hanyang University, Korea)
Congratulatory Remarks
- TBC / Young Ahn Kang (National Research Foundation of Korea)

15:00-16:15 Keynote Speech
The Tropics of Bordering – The Location of Co-figuration
- Sakai Naoki (Cornell University, USA)

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

*[ CONFERENCE ]*

16:30-18:30 *Session 1: De-regionalizing Regions*

Chair: TBA

1. “Asia” in Chinese Reactions to the Great War - Seen From Transnational
Perspectives
- Dominic Sachsenmaier (Duke University, USA)
2. Fractured Unity: The Making and Unmaking of Borders and Their
Transnational Dynamics in Modern Europe
- Bernhard Struck (University of St. Andrews, UK)
3. Economic Crisis and the Urgent, Everyday Experience of Region: Lessons
from the Most Marginal Places
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)

Discussant: Michael Schoenhals (Lund University, Sweden)

19:30 Welcome Dinner

*< DAY 2: JUNE 12 (SATURDAY) >*

10:30-12:30 *Session 2: Dynamics of “in-between” Regions*

Chair: TBA

1. East Central Europe: Challenge or Eldorado for Doing Transnational
History?
- Frank Hadler (GWZO, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
2. Sayyid Hussein Story: Hami Muslims and the Frontier Perspective on the
East Asian World
- Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA)
3. Asian-German Studies: Methodology, Theory, and Practice
- Young-Sun Hong (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)

Discussant: Seung Mi Han (Yonsei University, Korea)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:45 *Session 3: Counter-memories of Regions*

Chair: TBA

1. Regions and Regionalism in the Historical Culture of the Third Reich
- Peter Lambert (Aberystwyth University, UK)
2. Mass Murder by Mosquito: The Yaeyama Malaria Reparations Campaign,
1989-1977
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
3. “Asia” as a “relational” concept from the perspective of Japanese Marxist
Philosophers: Hiromatsu Wataru, Miki Kiyoshi, and Tosaka Jun
- Nakajima Takahiro (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Discussant: Mitani Hiroshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 *Session 4: Reimagining Regions*

Chair: TBA

1. 1884, Before Asia
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)
2. Network, Identity and the State: Explaining the Dynamics of Transnational
Asia and a Rising China
- Hong Liu (University of Manchester, UK)
3. What is Wrong with the Alternative Modernities Thesis?
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

Discussant: Daqing Yang (George Washington University, USA)

*< DAY 3: JUNE 13 (SUNDAY) >*

*[ CURRICULUM ]*

*I. Problematizing Regions and Regionalization*

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig, Germany)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

18:00- FUTH Steering Committee Meeting

*< DAY 4: JUNE 14 (MONDAY) >*

*II. Rethinking Regions and Regionalization: Transnational Perspectives*

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Korea)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

*< DAY 5: JUNE 15 (TUESDAY) >*

*III. Towards Reflexive Regionalization?*

09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

13:00-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback

*< DAY 6: JUNE 16 (WEDNESDAY) >*

10:00-11:45 Wrap-Up Roundtable Discussion

11:45-12:00 Closing Remarks
- Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Korea)

12:00 Adjournment

13:00- Optional Tour (“Borderless Village” in Wongok-dong, Ansan,
Gyeonggi-do
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