BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Asian Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Asian Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220209T1500Z-1644418852.9354-EO-55030-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T023909Z CREATED:20220205T002202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T192431Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160118T190000 SUMMARY: 2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long\, Short Years: Our World\, Our Fukushima DESCRIPTION: 2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long\, Sh ort Years: Our World\, Our Fukushima features guest speaker Professor Dr. N orma Field\, Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies at the University of Chi cago. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
2015/
16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Dr. Norma Field
(Professor of Japanese Studies Emerita at the
University of Chicago)
Thank you to all who attended this year’s lectu re and for making it our highest attended John Howes Lecture to date. Guest Speaker Dr. Norma Field gave an enlightening lecture that revealed the dev astating reality of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster – a reality which w as reinforced by the presence of Fukushima and Chernobyl residents in the a udience.
The recording can be viewe d on YouTube via this link here.
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Monday\, January 18\, 2
016
5:00pm Reception with refreshments
6:00pm Lec
ture
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Lecture abstract:
March 11\, 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of the triple disaste r\, the Great East Japan Earthquake that brought with it a tsunami and nucl ear catastrophe. In 2013 Prime Minister Abe won the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo by declaring the spread of radioactively contaminated waters “under contro l\,” to widespread disbelief back home. And yet\, that declaration has been steadily converted into truth through the collaboration\, witting and unwi tting\, of bureaucratic mandate and citizen need-to-forget. The process is aided and abetted by the accelerated redefinition of the character of the p ostwar Japanese nation.
Still\, to provide a merely dystopian account would be to commit a falsehood and an injustice. Let us\, rather\, conside r the efforts being made\, with intuitive or disciplined suspension of disb elief\, and in defiance of the multifarious tentacles of the late Mrs. That cher’s dictum\, to struggle for an alternative world. Those efforts take on especially precarious\, contradictory\, and determined form in Fukushima\, and it is to them that the heart of this talk will be dedicated.
About the speaker:
The Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of Japanese Studies Emerita at the University of Chicago\, Norma Field was born and educated in Americ an schools in Tokyo\, Japan. Her publications include In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End\; Kobayashi Takiji: 21seiki ni do yomu ka (Reading Kobayashi Takiji for the 21st Century)\; F ukushima Radiation: Do You Still Say No Crime Was Committed (co-transl ator)\; and For Dignity\, Justice\, and Revolution: An Anthology of Jap anese Proletarian Literature (co-editor).
Book Sale:
Dr. Norma Field’s most recent publication\, For Dignity\, Justice\, and Re volution\, will be for sale at the lecture.
Synopsis: Fiction cr eated by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization\, dramatic inequality\, and i mperial expansion. In Japan\, literary youth\, men and women\, sought to tu rn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices\, with r esults that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. This anth ology is a landmark introduction to Japanese proletarian literature from th at period.
For more information regarding Fukushima and the nucle ar incident\, we recommend you read “The Human Consequences of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accidents< /a>” by Eiichiro Ochiai.
About the John Howes Lect ure in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding member o f UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years of active teac hing and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cu ltural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan rel ationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\ , and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together to launch an e ndowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni on to pics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
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