Youth Training Workshop at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University,Fourth “Transborder Symbols” [Finished]

Youth Training Workshop at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University,
Fourth “Transborder Symbols” [Finished]

event date: 2019.06.28

The Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University, is hosting the symposium outlined below. Please note that no advance registration is needed. We hope to see you all at the symposium.
*This symposium is held as part of the “Private University Research Branding Project” of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.

Youth Training Workshop at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University

Fourth “Transborder Symbols”

Youth Training Workshop at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University, Fourth “Transborder Symbols” [Finished]

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Date: 18:00–19:45, June 28 (Wed), 2019
Place: Small Meeting Room, 3F Building No. 3, Seijo University　
Seijo University Directions (4 min walk from Seijo Gakuen-mae Station on the Odakyu Line)
Host: Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University
Language: Japanese

Inquiries:

Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8511
Tel: 03-3482-1497　Fax: 03-3482-9740
E-mail: glocalstudies［at］seijo.ac.jp
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Workshop presenters and titles:

１. Marie Oshiro (PhD student at Seijo University)
“The Image of Beardsley and Its Reception”
２. Mai Osawa (PD researcher at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University)
“The ‘Brotherhood in Error’ as Depicted in Shirley by C. Brontë”

Commentators: Chikashi Kitazaki (Seijo University), Mitsushige Sato (Seijo University)
Summarizers: Kenji Kitayama (Seijo University), Makoto Kinoshita (Seijo University)
MC: Shigechika Suzuki (PD researcher at the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University)

Event outline:

　The Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University, will host the youth training workshop (fourth) “Transborder Symbols” as part of the “glocal studies” (studies on the phenomenon of glocalization, which occurs through the simultaneous and mutual interaction of the forces of globalization and localization) program that the center is advocating and promoting.
　The phenomena of globalization and glocalization are expressed in various forms in literature and culture. In the 19th century, globalization advanced against a background of scientific and technological development that had been taking place since the industrial revolution. In the context of this phenomenon, the “local” was forced to respond in various ways. The United Kingdom, which flourished as the seat of the British Empire, is no exception.
　As such, this event focuses on the 19th century Victorian period and includes a discussion of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and the female writer Charlotte Brontë from the perspective of the glocal aspects apparent in their works. We can see that the “style” of Beardsley’s works was formed on the basis of “styles” from various countries, and, having said that, we discuss which “style” we perceive as most Beardsleyian as well as how that “style” has been transmitted. Looking at the novel Shirley, which was Brontë’s third work, we pay attention to the “change” a border-crossing foreign factory owner brings about in Yorkshire in northern England, examining how the local responds, how the factory owner responds in turn, and how he is accepted and localized.