In this course, teaching staffs share narratives of what themes and research objects (including ones which has not yet become formed as rigid researches) they have been interested in, what ways of approach they have wittingly taken, what ways of preliminary attentions, senses of differences, and trial and errors they have experienced so far, and thereby encourage discussions on them together with students.
We teaching staffs will select topics of interest that we are currently struggling and thinking hard at the moment, not ones that have been given some fixed values and evaluation socially and/or in academic worlds, and intend to share with students our attitudes to open new incentives and directions to create our own disciplines without being fixated to methods regarded as proper or frames of seeing the world that have obtained good evaluation, in order to encourage students to think of significance of them.
As you know, the teaching staffs (Suwa and Naito) belong to remarkably different disciplines. However, we share common ground in terms of intentions to cross-disciplinary exploration of life and living. Each of us is interested in what issues in life and living the other will narrate and what original attentions has brought him to those issues.
Generally speaking, in exploration of new cross-disciplinary research fields, researchers should be able to being moved by purely personal factors, motivations, interests, and senses of difference, not senses of value that have been already evaluated socially, and thereby to enjoy sound communications as a form of hard and fruitful discussions and obtain driving-forces to push themselves forward.
We expect students to think earnestly of what academic disciplines are and what disciplinary attitudes are indispensable for opening a new future, by being inspired by the contents, ways of narrating and attitudes shared in this course.