[KS] Apply to the 2nd FUTH (a global summer school) !

Tue Apr 5 23:04:01 EDT 2011

*The 2nd Flying University of Transnational Humanities is currently
accepting applications from grad students and recent PhDs worldwide!!!*
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*Application deadline: April 14, 2011*
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*Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH)*

*- Summer School for Graduate Students and Young Scholars -*

*Introduction *

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

FUTH takes its name and immediate inspiration from Poland’s Flying University,
an underground institution which offered an alternative 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
imaginationsfrom the regime of the nation-state and tooffer new ways
ofthinking about the political, social and cultural order of the
world,
both past and present.

The Flying University of Transnational Humanities is accordingly,

*Trans-cultural: *FUTH will not only critically examine the production and
dissemination of (trans-) national knowledge and culture, but also
problematize imagined geographies of the ‘East’ and the ‘West.’ In so doing,
we will explore times, places, and subjects as fluid and hybrid, rather than
as confined and constrained by geopolitical or cultural boundaries.

*Trans-disciplinary:* FUTH seeks to comprehend the complex nature of various
trans-cultural issues and employ trans-disciplinary approaches. To that end,
FUTH is open to scholars, educators, researchers and students from all
academic specializations.

*Trans-institutional:* FUTH is an intellectual network, founded and run by a
global consortium of scholars, departments, and institutions. With the
support of this network, we hope to facilitate trans-cultural and
trans-disciplinary collaborations.

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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
interactivediscussions. 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.

*Steering Committee *(Last names in *bold*)

*Lim* Jie-Hyun, 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*, ENS Cachan, France

Daqing *Yang*, George Washington University, USA

*Advisory Committee *(Last names in *bold*)

Prasenjit *Duara*, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Michael *Geyer*, University of Chicago, USA

Alf *Lüdtke*, Universität Erfurt, Germany

*Mitani* Hiroshi, University of Tokyo, Japan

*Sakai* Naoki, Cornell University, USA

*FUTH 2011*

*Theme: *“Border-crossing Self”

*Date: *June 25 – 29, 2011

*Venue: *International Conference Room, Paiknam Library & Academic
Information Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
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Hosted by: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang
University

Sponsored by: National Research Foundation of Korea

Eligibility: *Graduate students as well as recent PhDs are welcome to
participate.

*To apply:* Please fill out and send as attachment via email the application
form on our website http://www.rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php?pageNum=5&subNum=3 to
hk.transnational at gmail.com.

*Registration fee: *There is *no* registration fee.

*Accommodation and travel: *Accommodation will be provided for all
participants. However, participants are expected to arrange their own
funding for travel and daily living expenses. After a review by the
organizing committee of the academic statement and the presentation
proposal, partial travel grants may be awarded to a limited number of
applicants who are not able to raise the necessary funds.

*Presentation:* Qualified graduate students and recent PhDs may give a
presentation on their ongoing research in a graduate session where lecturers
will participate as commentators. Those interested in presenting their
research in a graduate session should apply with their curriculum vitae,
academic statement and an abstract of their proposed presentation. All
applications are subject to review by the FUTH organizing committee.

*Deadline:* The deadline for applications is *April 14**, 2011*.

*W**ebsite:* http://rich.ac/eng/fly/introduction.php?pageNum=5&subNum=1

*Contact:* hk.transnational at gmail.com* *

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*PROGRAM*

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*DAY 1: JUNE 25 (SATURDAY)
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09:00-09:20 *Registration*

09:20-09:30 *Welcome Remarks *by* *Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University)

09:30-11:00 *Lecture and Q&A*

Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)

*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)*
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*Translation – A Border Crossing or a Border Making Experience*

12:45-14:00 *Lunch*

14:00-15:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

15:45-16:00 *Coffee Break*

16:00-17:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

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*DAY 2: JUNE 26 (SUNDAY)                                                 *

09:30-11:00 *Lecture and Q&A*

David Newman (Ben Gurion University)

*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)*
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*Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora*

12:45-14:00 *Lunch*

14:00-15:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

15:45-16:00 *Coffee Break*

16:00-17:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

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*

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*DAY 3: JUNE 27 (MONDAY)
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09:30-11:00 *Lecture and Q&A*

Rada Iveković (University Jean Monnet - St. Etienne)*
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*Those Other Borderlands. Displacing Eurasia                          *

11:00-11:15 *Coffee Break*

11:15-12:45 *Lecture and Q&A*

Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University)*
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*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 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

15:45-16:00 *Coffee Break*

16:00-17:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

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) **

*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)**

*“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 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

15:45-16:00 *Coffee Break*

16:00-17:45 *Student Presentation & Feedback *

*Group 1 *(2 presentations)

*Group 2 *(2 presentations)

17:45-   *Farewell Party*

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*DAY 5: JUNE 29 (WEDNESDAY)
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10:00-11:30 *Wrap-Up Discussion*

11:30 *Adjournment*
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