Ferran
de Vargas Díaz del Río
Researcher
Researcher in the period 2022-2023
Department: Arts and Humanities Department
Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis The nuberu bagu film trend as an artistic correlate of the japanese new left. A political reading of cultural productions 2020. Supervised by Dr. Blai Guarné Cabello.
Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis El cine de la Nuberu Bagu como correlato artístico de la nueva izquierda japonesa. Una lectura política de las producciones culturales 2020. Supervised by Dr. Blai Guarné Cabello.
He is a political scientist and Juan de la Cierva - Formación postdoctoral researcher (Government of Spain - Next Generation EU). His studies focus on political ideologies, democratic processes and aesthetic movements in East Asia, with a special interest in modern Japan. He completed the UOC Master's Degree in Chinese and Japanese Studies: Contemporary World (Special Award) and a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies (International Doctorate mention) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as a recipient of a FI-DGR grant (AGAUR, Government of Catalonia - European Social Fund). He has also carried out research stays at Kobe University in Japan (thanks to a JASSO scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and at the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute in Japan (with a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Programme for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields). He authored the book Izquierda y revolución. Una historia política del Japón de posguerra [Left and Revolution. A Political History of Post-War Japan] (Edicions Bellaterra, 2020) and has published articles in academic journals such as positions, The Sixties, Arts, L'Atalante and Estudios de Asia y África.
- Former Center: Faculties