[csaa-forum] Symposium: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

[Vera Mackie]

Please find details below of a forthcoming one-day symposium at the University of Wollongong. For further information, contact Vera Mackie <vera at uow.edu.au>.

PROGRAM

Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

Saturday 24 August

19.2072B (LHA Research Hub) University of Wollongong

9. 45: Welcome, coffee, registration.

10.00~11.30 Panel One: Performing

Chair: Vera Mackie

Peter Eckersall: Performance and the long view of nuclear space

Alexander Brown: Performing Futures Past: Artistic Activism and Historical Memory in Post-Bubble Japan

Allison Holland: Natural disaster and the nuclear debate: Communicating through global contemporary art

11:30~11:50 Morning Tea

11.50~1:20 Panel Two: Telling

Chair: Carolyn Stevens

Helen Kilpatrick: Recognition of Trauma in Japanese Picture Books

Tamaki Tokita: The Great Kanto Earthquake and 3/11: An Imagological Comparison

Rebecca Suter: Lady Pluto and Count Uranos: Reflecting on Radioactivity Through Science Fiction Manga

1:20~2:00 Lunch

2:00~3:30 Panel Three: Feeling

Chair: Helen Kilpatrick

Carolyn Stevens: Images of Suffering, Resilience and Compassion

Mayuko Itoh: Of course we know ‘we are strong’: contemporary Japanese young women’s support networking through fandom

Rowena Ward: Therapy through Art: Maintaining Programs Requires Good Planning

3:30~3:50 Afternoon Tea

3:50~5:20 Panel Four: Connecting

Chair: Mark McLelland

Takanori Tamura: Social Media and Democracy in Post-Disaster Japan

Adam Broinowski: The transnational radioactive gaze of ‘Fukushima’

Vera Mackie: Transnational Affect: Connecting with Post-Disaster Japan

There is no registration fee, but please advise of your attendance by 16 August  (for catering purposes).

For further information contact Vera Mackie <vera at uow.edu.au>.

This symposium is supported by the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, the Japan Foundation and the Forum on Human Rights Research at the University of Wollongong.