Please note that this is an announcement on behalf of Hanyang University. Please direct all query to them.
Please note that FASS considers this as a workshop/conference and not a summer school.
This is to announce that the third Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) will take place at Hanyang University from July 15 through 18, 2012. FUTH is one of RICH’s most important academic events in the year, and provides a great opportunity for exchange and networking among graduate students and young scholars from around the globe.
The total number of student participants will be limited to around 24 in order to give sufficient time for student presentations, and the extended deadline for student applications is March 30.
FUTH 2012 will address an important yet less explored issue in the discussion of borders—namely, knowledge. The production and use of knowledge are always embedded in specific social and historical contexts. How then, does knowledge travel across borders? How is it translated, appropriated, or contested in different contexts? And how does locally-produced knowledge come to acquire the status of globality (or not)? With these questions as a basis, FUTH 2012—under the title of “Borders of Knowledge”—aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to critically examine the theme of the making and unmaking of the (national, cultural, etc) borders of knowledge (including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, law, and other forms of knowledge).
As a graduate level global summer schoo, FUTH 2012 consists of lectures and student presentation & feedback sessions. All the lecturers have been confirmed, and their names and lecture titles are:
· Johan Heilbron (Centre Europeen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne, France / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), “The Human Sciences as a Cultural World System”
· Christian Fleck (Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria), “Some Remarks on the Methodologies Used in Writing the History of the Social Sciences and Humanities”
· Alice L. Conklin (Department of History, Ohio State University, U.S.A.), “Race as Social Myth: The Emergence of International Scientific Anti-Racism after World War II”
· Fa-ti Fan (State University of New York-Birminghamton, U.S.A.), “The Global Turn in the History of Science”
· Yoav Di-Capua (University of Texas-Austen, U.S.A.), TBA
· Michael Kim (Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea), “Crossing the Linguistic Divide: The Boundaries of Knowledge Production in the Publications of Colonial Korea”
· Closing Remarks by: Frank Hadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Please see the attached flyer and tentative program for a detailed description of FUTH 2012.
FUTH-2012-Tentative-Program_120309
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, our research professor Eunhye Kwon (eunhyekwon1@gmail.com) or our academic coordinator, Ms. Sunghee Hong (shongshrong@gmail.com).