“3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
The Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC)
Research Unit “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity” presents
two afternoons of panel papers and discussion around the theme of
3.11 Memorialization
FRIDAY, June 28th: Ethnographies of 3.11 Memorialization
MONDAY, July 1st: Art and 3.11 Memorialization
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus Bldg. 10, room 301
Papers in English; no prior registration necessary
Please contact David H. Slater with any questions
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
For full program see the ICC homepage http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/
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DAY ONE
Ethnographies of 3.11 Memorialization
Friday June 28th (1pm-5pm)
Sophia University, bldg. 10, room 301
Discussants:
Marilyn Ivy (Columbia) and Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis)
This
panel examines the closely embedded practices, objects and symbols
linked to the lived experience of disaster. Through extended participant
observation and interview fieldwork, the authors of this panel
introduce and analyze the ways which local, community and regional
institutions create, transform and attempt to manage practices and
rituals of mourning and memory.
Panel One: 1pm
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1. Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia and National Ethnological Museum
Personal, Local and National Narratives of Reflection, Recollection, and
Representation Surrounding Tohoku, Japan’s 311 Disaster
2. Ryo Morimoto, Brandeis University and Sophia University
Reanimation of Trauma/Miracle as a Hope: The Case of the Miracle Lone Pine Tree of Rikuzentakata
Break
Panel Two (2:30)
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3. Shuhei Kimura, University of Tsukuba
Memorizing Our Disaster: A Note on Commemorative Objects of the Tsunami
4. Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Tohoku University
Memorials, Cemeteries and Social Reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Miyagi
5. Isao Hayashi, National Museum of Ethnology
Materializing Memories
Discussion (4pm)
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DAY TWO
Art and 3.11 Memorialization
Sophia University, bldg. 10 room 301
Monday July 1st (1pm-5pm)
Discussants:
Michio Hayashi (Sophia) and Noriko Murai (Sophia)
This
panel examines the ways in which various mediums work to make some
claim to “representing” the disaster, in some cases as "art." We ask how
has disaster been captured and deployed in diverse contexts and examine
the way in which 3.11 has been manufactured and re-represented to
different aesthetic and political affects.
Panel One: (1pm)
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1. Ellen Schattschneider, Brandeis University
Between Worlds: Spirit Mediumship and Memories of War in the Wake of the Triple Disaster
2. Asato Ikeda, Smithsonian
Historicizing Ikeda Manabu’s Recent Art Responding to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Break
Panel Two: (2:30)
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3. Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris
Lieko Shiga's Rasen Kaigan: Memorials to a Dying Village Before and After the Tsunami
4. Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University
Catastrophic Photography: Enigmas of the Image after 3.11
5. Ryuji Miyamoto, Kobe Design University
Showing 3.11 TSUNAMI 2011
Discussion (4pm)
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