Does the written word have a future? Some contemporary trends seem to suggest otherwise: the replacement of the novel first by movies and then video games as leading cultural form; the shift from text to audio and video in messenger apps and on social media platforms; a (related?) loss of concentration and focus; and sinking rates of functional literacy in many developed countries. And just a year after large language models such as ChatGPT arrived on the scene, artificial intelligence is already doing a lot of writing and reading for us. In this seminar we will take these trends not necessarily at face value, but as a starting point to explore the relationship between reading/writing, media and society from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. I invited colleagues in literature and psychology, book history and the history of computing to co-teach this seminar together with me. Together we will look at long-term trends related to various textual media, the evolution of technologies from the printing press to social media platforms, and the social contexts of reading and literacy in order to think about past, present, and future trajectories of textuality. <<Learning Goals>> After successfully completing this seminar, participants will be able to - identify and compare different conceptions of text, reading, writing and literacy - understand textuality as a complex social and cultural practice - analyze how textual practices are influenced by social and technological contexts - consider a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from social media studies, anthropology, history and science and technology studies on textuality - apply critical approaches on the relationship between text, media, and society to their own research as well as to reflections on future scenarios

広く産学官にわたってグローバルに活躍するために必要な「俯瞰力」を養成することを目指す。物質科学の各分野について最先端の知識を修得し、自分の専門分野と周辺分野がどのように関連するか、あるいはし得るか、について深く考察するために、第一線で活躍する講師の方々にその分野の最前線を概観していただく。さらに、それらの講義を通して異分野間のコミュニケーションを円滑に進めるための具体的方法論を学ぶ。 This survey course is designed to enable students to develop the broad perspective that is required of global leaders working in and across industry, academia, and government. Students will gain knowledge and insight on advancements in each field of materials science research, given by leading researchers working on the frontline in those fields. This will allow students to consider how peripheral fields are related to their own area of expertise, and to consider the potential for forging bridges between related fields in the future. In addition, students will learn specific methodologies designed to facilitate smooth communication among different disciplines.

「バイオマス」は生物によって生産される有機物の量を意味するが、近年はその有価物としての側面を指す用語として使われるようになった。バイオマスは再生可能な資源として注目され、各種の工業原料およびエネルギー資源として広く利用されている。この授業では各担当教員が、それぞれの専門の立場で、バイオマスの利用事例とその効果、および将来展望等について基本的な事項を最新の情報をまじえて解説する。

サステイナビリティに関わる知識・用語を文理横断的に紹介すると同時に、最終的には人文知の枠組から批判的に研究する態度を養う。 サステイナビリティ概念、サステイナビリティ正義論、サステイナビリティ思想、サステイナビリティ経済学、サステイナビリティ政治学に分けて論じてゆく。それを通じて、サステイナビリティに関わる重要概念についての知識と概念批判の態度を身につけることを目的とする。

This course is designed to learn a great variety of researches conducted at the frontier of “Sustainability Science”, through the latest research outcomes of Sustainability Science Consortium (SSC) and Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S). SSC and IR3S were established to develop sustainability research, education, and public outreach programs and to strengthen coordination between national and local government, corporations, NPOs and other organizations while developing practical measures for technological innovation and social transformation (http://ssc-g.net/*****). By understanding a variety of academic fields related to sustainability and interactions among them, students will come to take part in the process of integrating multiple academic disciplines to implement sustainability science approach.

サステイナビリティに関わる知識・用語を文理横断的に紹介すると同時に、最終的には人文知の枠組から批判的に研究する態度を養う。 サステイナビリティ概念、サステイナビリティ正義論、サステイナビリティ思想、サステイナビリティ経済学、サステイナビリティ政治学に分けて論じてゆく。それを通じて、サステイナビリティに関わる重要概念についての知識と概念批判の態度を身につけることを目的とする。

サステイナビリティに関わる知識・用語を文理横断的に紹介すると同時に、最終的には人文知の枠組から批判的に研究する態度を養う。 サステイナビリティ概念、サステイナビリティ正義論、サステイナビリティ思想、サステイナビリティ経済学、サステイナビリティ政治学に分けて論じてゆく。それを通じて、サステイナビリティに関わる重要概念についての知識と概念批判の態度を身につけることを目的とする。

"The Art of Attention" explores attention as a social, cultural, and personal phenomenon, with a special focus on the concept of Radical Human Attention. Drawing on philosophical, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, the course examines various attentional practices and their applications in everyday life, art, and social change. 「注意の技法」は、注意を社会的、文化的、個人的な現象として探求し、特にラディカル・ヒューマン・アテンションの概念に焦点を当てます。哲学的、心理学的、社会文化的な観点を取り入れ、日常生活、芸術、社会変革におけるさまざまな注意の実践とその応用を検討します。

"The Art of Attention" explores attention as a social, cultural, and personal phenomenon, with a special focus on the concept of Radical Human Attention. Drawing on philosophical, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, the course examines various attentional practices and their applications in everyday life, art, and social change. 「注意の技法」は、注意を社会的、文化的、個人的な現象として探求し、特にラディカル・ヒューマン・アテンションの概念に焦点を当てます。哲学的、心理学的、社会文化的な観点を取り入れ、日常生活、芸術、社会変革におけるさまざまな注意の実践とその応用を検討します。

Course Objectives 目的 ・Widening to recognize agricultural diversity including students' experiences　農の多様性 ・Defining "sustainability" and articulating usingTo be able to list 10 or more examples of agricultTo be able to list 10 or more examples of agricults; ② To be able to explain the historical development of agricultural sciences; ③ To be able to explain sustainability, sustainable development, and SDGs with references to world situations from 1980's; ④ To be able to explain the outline of the systems of agricultural sciences in Japan; ⑤ To be able to explain the relationship between social justice and sustainability; ⑥ To be able to evaluate and analyze traditional techniques such as irrigation development and participatory cultivar selection from the perspective of sustainability and stakeholders and propose the improvement plans; ⑦ To be able to explain the overriding influences of conflicts on agricultural sustainability, interrelationship between agricultural and military technologies, and possible path from conflict, to reconciliation and peace-building; ⑧ To be able to explain futurology and eschatology and apply them to envision the future of agriculture; ⑨ To be able to evaluate and analyze biotechnology and smart agriculture as cutting-edge technologies from the perspective of sustainability; ⑩ To be able to explain the ethics of agriculture, Based on the achievement goals of ①～⑩, the following goals should also be achieved. ⑪ To be able to express and generally characterize agriculture that has a special feeling for students; ⑫ To be able to explain what sustainability means to students' lives; ⑬ To be able to explain the relationship between students' world view and their vision for the future of agriculture; ⑭ To be able to list new findings in agriculture, sustainability, technologies after attending this course; ⑮ To be able to state how students themselves were inspired by the ethics of agriculture; ⑯To be able to criticize and ask questions about other students' ideas.