文化遺産は誰のものか？ 文化遺産を守るとは何をすることなのか？ 文化遺産とどう共存していくべきか？ そもそも文化遺産とは何か？ Whose cultural heritage is it? What does it mean to protect cultural heritage? How can we coexist with cultural heritage? What IS cultural heritage? 皆さんの身の回りに様々な形で文化「遺産」が存在しています。それは形があったり、なかったりするもので、意識的に体験することもあれば、アイデンティティに組み込まれているが故に気づかないものでもあります。 この授業では、様々な文化遺産が保護されてきた歴史や現状を振り返りながら、国内外の開発や政治問題が文化遺産に与える影響を理解し、国際社会や人々の生活における文化遺産の意義を構造化できるようにすることを目的とします。文化遺産が持つ意味合いを理解し、それの地域創生と国際関係に与える影響について考え、国内外の社会問題を批判的に分析できるような視点を身につけます。 You are surrounded by all sorts of cultural heritage daily. It could be in/tangible, visible, intentional, or is melted in your identity that you do not see it particularly as cultural heritage itself. In this class, you will learn about the history and current state of cultural heritage and its protection, by reflecting political and economic issues that affect the state of cultural heritage. The objective of the class is for the students to structurally understand and criticize how heritage could play a role in international organizations and local communities. 到達目標： 1：文化遺産をめぐる基礎的な知識を身につけることができる。　 2：さまざまな文化遺産に関する問題について、実社会と結びつけながら自らの問いを立てることができる。 3：自ら立てた問いに対して専門的な知識に基づいて分析・考察できる。 授業概要： 　人々の文化的な活動によって生み出された有形・無形の文化遺産は、後世に伝えるためにこれまで様々な形で守られてきました。本講義では、その中でも特に現在の社会で認識される文化遺産概念を国際社会に広めた、ユネスコや他の国際機関の取り組みと、国内外の事例に焦点を当てます。国際条約の成り立ちから運用までのプロセスを学びながら、「文化遺産」と社会の関係性について考えます。まず、1972年に誕生した世界遺産制度の背景にある、各国で発展してきた文化財保護制度や概念形成の積み重ねや、戦争や開発という社会の歴史と制度の変革を学びます。そのうえで、実際に世界遺産条約が運用される中で、国際社会が直面する様々な現状と課題について一つずつ見ていきながら、世界遺産の将来的な在り方（国際社会へのインパクト、コミュニティとの共存、持続可能な開発目標との関係性）について考えます。 　そのうえで、世界遺産とそれにかかわる取り組みに直接かかわる世界各国の専門家にオンラインまたはオンサイトで特別講義をしていただきます。様々な層のアクター（政府、市民、研究機関、企業）との関係性を実際に見たうえで、将来的な文化遺産の保全活用の在り方を考えます。 Learning Outcomes: 1: Acquire fundamental knowledge concerning cultural heritage. 2: Develop the ability to formulate personal questions regarding various cultural heritage issues, linking them to real-world contexts. 3: Conduct analysis and critical examination of self-formulated questions based on specialized knowledge. Course Overview: Tangible and intangible cultural heritage, created through human cultural activities, has been safeguarded in diverse ways to ensure its transmission to future generations. This course focuses specifically on UNESCO's and other international institutions' efforts to establish the concept of cultural heritage as it is understood in contemporary society and to promote this concept internationally. Students will examine the relationship between “cultural heritage” and society while learning about the process from the formation to the implementation of international treaties. First, students will study the background to the World Heritage system established in 1972, including the accumulation of cultural property protection systems and conceptual development within individual nations, alongside the historical context of war and development and the resulting transformations in systems. Subsequently, we will examine the various realities and challenges the international community faces in the actual operation of the World Heritage Convention, one by one. This will lead us to consider the future direction of World Heritage (its impact on the international community, coexistence with communities, and its relationship with the Sustainable Development Goals). 　Furthermore, experts from around the world directly involved with World Heritage and related initiatives will deliver special lectures online or on-site. Having witnessed the relationships with various stakeholders (governments, citizens, research institutions, businesses), we will consider future approaches to the conservation and utilization of cultural heritage.

【注意】この授業は開講日程の都合上、成績が所定の確認日より後に公開される見込みが高いので留意すること。特に2年生は本科目の成績が進学選択が可能となる条件に含まれない見込が高いので、履修にあたっては十分に注意すること。 ＊This seminar is open to both international and Japanese students. Your active participation is welcome! ＊海外の学生の積極的な参加も期待しています。 ＊授業を受けた後、8月2週目をめどに、国内研修として広島での研修を実施します。 ＊After taking the S2 term, we will conduct a domestic study tour in Hiroshima, scheduled for the second week of August. 文化遺産は誰のためのものか？ 文化遺産をどのように守り、活かすか？ 何が文化遺産なのか？ For whom is cultural heritage? How do you protect and utilize cultural heritage? What IS cultural heritage? この授業は、文化遺産保全管理の背景にある政治性や歴史の認識、保全管理の在り方を現地で学ぶものです。 特に、難しい歴史のある文化遺産をどう守っていくか、具体的な事例を通して考え、分析をし、学んでいきます。 今回は、戦争によって「文化遺産」となった広島の事例を調査し、誰のために、何を、どのように残していくのか、残さないのか、考えていきます。広島は、被爆者としての歴史が想起されるようになりましたが、戦前・戦時中は軍の歴史を体現する場所でもありました。そこが、原爆投下を経て、原爆の記憶を継承する上で、新たな意味合いを持つようになっていったプロセスを、様々な被爆遺構、樹木、建築物などにフォーカスをあてながら、考えていくのが本演習です。 This course involves learning on-site about the political and historical context underlying cultural heritage conservation and management, and examining approaches to conservation and management. Specifically, we will consider, analyze, and learn how to protect cultural heritage with complex histories through concrete case studies. This time, we will investigate the case of Hiroshima, which became a “cultural heritage” site due to war, and consider for whom, what, and how we preserve or choose not to preserve. While Hiroshima is now primarily associated with its history as a site of atomic bombing, it also embodied military history during the pre-war and wartime periods. This seminar will examine the process by which the city acquired new significance in preserving the memory of the atomic bombing after the attack, focusing on various bomb-damaged structures, trees, and buildings. ※ シラバスは予定を変更することもありますので、ご承知ください。 ※ Please note that the syllabus is subject to change.

Political ideologies shape how people understand power, justice, identity, and change in an increasingly complex world. This course explores the role of ideology in political life: how it informs beliefs, drives social movements, influences policy, and frames global debates. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will gain the tools to recognize and evaluate competing worldviews, understand their impact on contemporary society, and reflect on their own political assumptions.

Political ideologies shape how people understand power, justice, identity, and change in an increasingly complex world. This course explores the role of ideology in political life: how it informs beliefs, drives social movements, influences policy, and frames global debates. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will gain the tools to recognize and evaluate competing worldviews, understand their impact on contemporary society, and reflect on their own political assumptions.

＊This seminar is open to both international and Japanese students. Your active participation is welcome! ＊海外の学生の積極的な参加も期待しています。 ＊授業を受けた後、8月2週目をめどに、国内研修として広島での研修を実施します。 ＊After taking the S2 term, we will conduct a domestic study tour in Hiroshima, scheduled for the second week of August. 文化遺産は誰のためのものか？ 文化遺産をどのように守り、活かすか？ 何が文化遺産なのか？ For whom is cultural heritage? How do you protect and utilize cultural heritage? What IS cultural heritage? この授業は、文化遺産保全管理の背景にある政治性や歴史の認識、保全管理の在り方を現地で学ぶものです。 特に、難しい歴史のある文化遺産をどう守っていくか、具体的な事例を通して考え、分析をし、学んでいきます。 今回は、戦争によって「文化遺産」となった広島の事例を調査し、誰のために、何を、どのように残していくのか、残さないのか、考えていきます。広島は、被爆者としての歴史が想起されるようになりましたが、戦前・戦時中は軍の歴史を体現する場所でもありました。そこが、原爆投下を経て、原爆の記憶を継承する上で、新たな意味合いを持つようになっていったプロセスを、様々な被爆遺構、樹木、建築物などにフォーカスをあてながら、考えていくのが本演習です。 This course involves learning on-site about the political and historical context underlying cultural heritage conservation and management, and examining approaches to conservation and management. Specifically, we will consider, analyze, and learn how to protect cultural heritage with complex histories through concrete case studies. This time, we will investigate the case of Hiroshima, which became a “cultural heritage” site due to war, and consider for whom, what, and how we preserve or choose not to preserve. While Hiroshima is now primarily associated with its history as a site of atomic bombing, it also embodied military history during the pre-war and wartime periods. This seminar will examine the process by which the city acquired new significance in preserving the memory of the atomic bombing after the attack, focusing on various bomb-damaged structures, trees, and buildings. ※ シラバスは予定を変更することもありますので、ご承知ください。 ※ Please note that the syllabus is subject to change.

This course examines cultural heritage, law and policy across countries in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge, alongside international and comparative approaches to the protection of heritage. The term ‘cultural heritage’ can refer to a broad range of concepts, including tangible heritage (sites, monuments, objects), intangible heritage (language, stories, customs, lore), movable and immovable heritage. It may refer to the cultural heritage of a specific country, and/or the cultural heritage of specific Indigenous groups within that country. Law and policy do not always recognise these distinctions. Issues affecting cultural heritage can range from the impact of colonisation; a failure to recognise and protect Indigenous groups; the impact of war; and modern environmental factors. The first part of the course introduces students to the course concepts, focusing on traditional knowledge, Indigenous cultural heritage, the role of colonisation, and more general approaches to the term ‘cultural heritage’. It then examines the different international organisations that oversee and legal frameworks that have been introduced in this area, some effective and some less so, in addition to the approaches that individual countries have adopted in protecting these different areas, using existing intellectual property regimes or bespoke heritage law. The second part of the course focuses on specific country case studies, including Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Indonesia, examining the Indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of groups within these countries and the various, significant challenges that these Indigenous groups have faced. It then examines the Ainu people and recent legal efforts in Japan recognise and protect the culture of this group, before turning to the comprehensive domestic and international protection that Japan has adopted for its cultural heritage more generally. The course finishes with a reflection on the role of museums in the displacement of Indigenous cultural heritage and cultural heritage more generally; the ongoing, recent attempts to return Indigenous tangible cultural heritage to ancestors; and how law may help or hinder such attempts. Students do not need to have undertaken any prior legal study to successfully complete this course.

The proliferation of technologies being sold for educational purposes is often heralded as a means to empower learners, expand access to knowledge, and address inequality. Indeed, technology opens new possibilities for access to education for students with disabilities, personalize learning with AI tools, and expand opportunities for intercultural education through virtual exchange, to name a few, However, with this expansion comes a range of dilemmas, including the increasing entanglement of public education with private interests, issues of user privacy and surveillance, the pedagogical challenges of educating for critical media literacy, the mental health implications of social media, and the reproduction of inequalities through the ‘digital divide’. In this course we will take a sociological perspective to explore these and other issues in the rapidly evolving world of ‘EdTech’. We will engage with leading scholarship in the field, representations in the media, and our own educational experiences to explore both instructor-and student-directed topics. Students will develop skills in academic reading, writing, presentation, and discussion.

The proliferation of technologies being sold for educational purposes is often heralded as a means to empower learners, expand access to knowledge, and address inequality. Indeed, technology opens new possibilities for access to education for students with disabilities, personalize learning with AI tools, and expand opportunities for intercultural education through virtual exchange, to name a few, However, with this expansion comes a range of dilemmas, including the increasing entanglement of public education with private interests, issues of user privacy and surveillance, the pedagogical challenges of educating for critical media literacy, the mental health implications of social media, and the reproduction of inequalities through the ‘digital divide’. In this course we will take a sociological perspective to explore these and other issues in the rapidly evolving world of ‘EdTech’. We will engage with leading scholarship in the field, representations in the media, and our own educational experiences to explore both instructor-and student-directed topics. Students will develop skills in academic reading, writing, presentation, and discussion.

This course examines cultural heritage, law and policy across countries in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge, alongside international and comparative approaches to the protection of heritage. The term ‘cultural heritage’ can refer to a broad range of concepts, including tangible heritage (sites, monuments, objects), intangible heritage (language, stories, customs, lore), movable and immovable heritage. It may refer to the cultural heritage of a specific country, and/or the cultural heritage of specific Indigenous groups within that country. Law and policy do not always recognise these distinctions. Issues affecting cultural heritage can range from the impact of colonisation; a failure to recognise and protect Indigenous groups; the impact of war; and modern environmental factors. The first part of the course introduces students to the course concepts, focusing on traditional knowledge, Indigenous cultural heritage, the role of colonisation, and more general approaches to the term ‘cultural heritage’. It then examines the different international organisations that oversee and legal frameworks that have been introduced in this area, some effective and some less so, in addition to the approaches that individual countries have adopted in protecting these different areas, using existing intellectual property regimes or bespoke heritage law. The second part of the course focuses on specific country case studies, including Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Indonesia, examining the Indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of groups within these countries and the various, significant challenges that these Indigenous groups have faced. It then examines the Ainu people and recent legal efforts in Japan recognise and protect the culture of this group, before turning to the comprehensive domestic and international protection that Japan has adopted for its cultural heritage more generally. The course finishes with a reflection on the role of museums in the displacement of Indigenous cultural heritage and cultural heritage more generally; the ongoing, recent attempts to return Indigenous tangible cultural heritage to ancestors; and how law may help or hinder such attempts. Students do not need to have undertaken any prior legal study to successfully complete this course.

This seminar-style course will explore issues related to language and society. The specific topics will be decided based on the interests of the students and the instructor. As part of the class, you will learn to conduct empirical investigations of language and society using tools such as corpus analysis and surveys.