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(Heidelberg, July 29-August 4, 2012)

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” welcomes applications for its Summer School “Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality” to take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre from Sunday, July 29, to Saturday, August 4, 2012.

This year’s Summer School “Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality” will explore the role of visual and material culture in the context of transcultural exchange processes between Asia and Europe. In highlighting the tensions between visual culture studies, art historical approaches and recent material culture studies, the Summer School will address questions such as: How can we move “beyond representation” to take on images in all their tangibility and material presence? Is “thing theory” a site for us to analyse the confluence of materiality and visuality? How can we look at images and objects differently when we approach them from transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives? In what ways do such perspectives challenge concepts and methods of our own disciplines?

Another aim of our Summer School is to address the transgressing mobility of images and objects as a key challenge for today’s Humanities, by tying it to current theoretical debates on this subject within various disciplines and testing it in case studies derived from the participants’ research projects and regions.

The programme is designed to provide stimulating discussions and new inspiration for graduate and junior research work, to exchange ideas and test methods from individual research projects and to actively engage with an international group of peers and senior scholars who share an interest in transcultural visuality and materiality. Keynotes will be presented by Kenneth George (Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Janice Bardsley (Japanese Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Invited speakers include Kajri Jain (South Asian Visual Culture, University of Toronto Mississauga), Sumathi Ramaswamy (History, Duke University), Kavita Singh (Art History, Jawaharlal Nehru University), and Paola Zamperini (Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College). Contributions from Heidelberg University come from Christiane Brosius (Visual and Media Anthropology), Monica Juneja (Global Art History), Barbara Mittler (Chinese Studies), and Melanie Trede (Japanese Art Histories).

Applications are accepted until April 15, 2012. The application form and additional information on fees, scholarships and the programme can be found at en/summerschool/

The Cluster’s Summer School 2012 is organised by Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg) together with Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke), coordinators of project B4 “Transcultural Visuality”. Christiane Brosius holds the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Cluster, Barbara Mittler is Speaker of Research Area B “Public Spheres”, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History, is one of the Key Partners of the Cluster.

We would appreciate it if you forwarded this information to your colleagues and interested students and thank you for your support.

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The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” is an
interdisciplinary network of researchers at Heidelberg University.
About 200 scholars examine the processes of cultural exchange between
Asia and Europe from a global perspective.

www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

I may be behind the times on this one but it was too amazing to pass up. If you are a Gundam geek like me, than I know you will appreciate the existence of this motorcycle as much as I do.

That’s right. This bike is designed to look like Char Aznable’s MS-06S Zaku II from original Gundam. It was auctioned on yahoo.com last October. The starting bid was lucky 77,777yen. It sold three days later at 320,020yen which is about 4,175 USD. Not too shabby. There have since been several other Zaku-inspired bikes auctioned on yahoo.

Finding the bike reminded me of another fun Gundam thing I stumbled across in Japan about a year and a half ago. I was wondering around the famed Akihabara district of Tokyo with my Taiko group after a performance. Akihabara is known for being chock full of computers, anime, and maid cafes. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a storefront with the sign Gundam Cafe. I had never heard of it before but I knew I had to check it out.

Since we just came from eating at a maid cafe, we skipped the meal part of the Gundam cafe and went straight to the gift shop. I laughed out loud when I saw the sign outside that read, “Gundam Style’s official cafe and bar started since A.D. 2010 continuing till U.C. 0079.” I thought that last part was a nice touch despite the awkward use of English. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Gundam, the U.C stands for Universal Century (or Uchuu Seiki) and U.C. 0079 marks the date that humanity begins to migrate from earth to the newly completed space colony at Side 1.

The shop was filled with Gundam merchandise: Gundam shaped cookies, bags, collectable cards and mobile suits galore. I took a quick peek at the menu and was impressed by the shameless usage of character names for the meals such as the Amuro Ray Pilot’s lunch set. I also enjoyed the adorable inclusion of decorative Zeon and Gundam logos intricately carved from carrots and other veggies. The servers were dressed like Frau Bow in the Earth Federation uniform (although I have read that they no longer do that and have switched to dark pants and polo shirts). At the time, I made a mental note to try and return one day so that I could sit in the cafe and enjoy the full experience.

In the meantime, I have perused the official Gundam Cafe site. It has a news section that is often updated, the full menu of the cafe, specials with desserts and cocktails included, all kinds of Gundam goods, Gunpla Yaki, which is essentially taiyaki in the shape of the original Gundam model, and information on how to access the cafe as well as the cafes’ hours of operation.  The website is almost entirely in Japanese but there is one English tab in the top right corner that will direct you to a single English version page with a very condensed version of the entire website.

I wish I could have been there to enjoy this adorable Haro themed New Years Osechi set!