The project aims at tackling the question, ‘What is the modern/world?’, by re-examining the academic outcomes of the former project, ‘Trans-disciplinary Study of the First World War’ in the context of modern history/the 20th century history.

 

The former project defines the First World War as the foundational moment of the modern world, which tends to be increasingly integrated.

 

Some of those problems which were brought about by the war have been, more or less, solved, some have remained intact for more than a hundred years, and some have changed their phases and meanings.

 

For instance, those research topics below should be considered:

 

・The transformation of Democracy

・The conflicts and interactions between Globalism and Localism/Nationalism

・Paramilitary violence and terrorism

・Propaganda in mass consumption society

・Advanced technology and its social control

・The future of modernism

・The continuity and discontinuity between ‘Modern’ and ‘Contemporary’, and their regional variances

 

The emphasis on ‘From the perspective of the Humanities’ implies the ontological question: ‘What can those who are living in the era of “The Crisis of European Learning” (Husserl) say about the modern/contemporary world?’