| Project/Area Number |
22K13646
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 09020:Sociology of education-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
FACIUS MICHAEL 東京大学, 東京カレッジ, 准教授 (00876229)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
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| Keywords | Humanities / University Studies / Public Humanities / Digital Humanities / Indigenous Humanities / YouTube / Academic publishing / academic publishing / 人文学 / 共同実践 / 知識の社会学 / デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ / インディジェナス・ヒューマニティ―ズ |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project will carry out a multi-modal analysis of emerging collaborative practices in the humanities (e.g. public humanities, innovative teaching, YouTube scholarship) to understand how they influence knowledge production and how the traditional humanities can use these to reclaim relevance.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I carried out two one month research stays (one with additional funding) at universities in Canada and South Africa. These stays employed methodologies of "the ethnography of higher education": I had around fifteen in-depth conversations with unit directors, faculty, staff, students and other stakeholders and participated in talks, lectures, campus tours, community engagement projects and other events, visited exhibitions and museums and various parts of the city to understand how humanities are being practiced, conceptualized and locally embedded. Based on the fieldnotes for these trips, I produced initial drafts for the three journal articles envisioned as deliverables for this project. I also sketched out the format and identified partners for the planned series of public conversations.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The project is progressing very well. On top of the activities described above, I also conducted three internal exploratory workshops with colleagues at departments at the universities in South Africa I visited, more than originally planned. In the original research plan I also mentioned my goal of eventually transfering the findings of this project to my own academic practice, potentially in a follow-up kakenhi project. I realized there would be greater synergy if I carried out collaborative practice projects during the runtime of this project instead, so I co-organized an art/academic festival called metttafestival on the topic of identity and social media with third-party funding, and carried out collaborative teaching on the future of generative AI and digital interactive storytelling.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Year three of the project will be dedicated to the completion of the articles, recording and publication of conversations on good practice cases for collaboration in the humanities, and the last workshop, which will reflect on the past, present and future of collaboration in the humanities.
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