[KineJapan] Yoshima Shunya's online course:【Visualizing Postwar Tokyo/MOOC edX】

[Markus Nornes]

Dear Friends and Colleagues
（Please circulate this announcement to your friends
and students.)

I am Shunya Yoshimi from the University of Tokyo.
Please excuse me for contacting you suddenly.

This autumn, my courses, "Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 & 2"
will be released on edX, a massive open online course (MOOC)
platform where the University of Tokyo recently joined.

Visualing Postwar Tokyo Course Websites:

https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545

https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546

These courses are in the series, Visualizing Japan, and will be offered
immediately after the first course in the series,
Visualizing Japan (1850s - 1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity,
by Professors John W. Dower (MIT) and Andrew Gordon (Harvard U).

In the "Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 and 2" which last 8 weeks
in total, I tried to show many documentary films and other
insightful/exciting visual materials for visualizing the
historical events and places in Tokyo. Many of them are not
available outside Japan, and  I believe these courses are
useful for teaching and understanding contemporary Japan and Tokyo.

I would really appreciate it if you could circulate the course
information and recommend people around you to register in these courses.
They are free of charge.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

With My Best Regards,
Shunya Yoshimi
The University of Tokyo


Details are as follows:

★★★ Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 ★★★
       by Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo

【Starts November 4, 2014】

Analyzes the history of change and development
in postwar Tokyo from different perspectives using
archived photographs, films, and TV programs.
The modules include, for Part 1:

   1. Occupation and Americanism;
   2. Imperial Gaze and Royal Wedding;
   3. The Olympic City;
   4. Economic-cultural Clash in Shinjuku.

https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545


★★★ Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 2 ★★★
        by Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo

【Starts January 6, 2015】

Presents the city as a place of visualities. In postwar
Tokyo, countless gazes fell upon others: gazes from
and upon Americans and the Emperor, gazes going
up skyscrapers or rushing aggressively through the
cityscape, and gazes twining among classes, genders,
and ethnic groups in downtown Tokyo.
The modules include, for Part 2:

5. Technologies for Visualizing;
6. The Poor and the Margins of Urban Society;
7. University Students and Knowledge Industry;
8. Postwar Tokyo and the Limits of Visualization.

https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546



★★★ Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s):
Westernization, Protest, Modernity ★★★

         by John Dower, Andrew Gordon, Shigeru
               Miyagawa, Gennifer Weisenfeld

【Starts September 3, 2014】

A first-time MITx/HarvardX collaboration, VJx opens
windows on Japan’s transition into the modern world
through the historical visual record. The modules cover:

Use of visual records as primary sources for the study
of history; Black Ships & Samurai -- Commodore Matthew
Perry's 1853-54 expedition to force Japan to open its
doors to the outside world;

Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905.
The first major social protest in the age of "imperial
democracy" in Japan.

Modernity in Interwar Japan: Shiseido & Consumer Culture.
Exploring the vast archives of the Shiseido cosmetics company
opens a fascinating window on the emergence of consumer
culture, modern roles for women, andglobal cosmopolitanism.

https://www.edx.org/course/VJx/vjx-visualizing-japan-2331



--
Shunya Yoshimi
yoshimi at iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Professor
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
University of Tokyo




-- 
*Markus Nornes*
Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures
Professor of Asian Cinema, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, School of Art & Design

*Department of Screen Arts and Cultures*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street*
*Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*
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