When Lit. Profs Walk the Nuclear-Restricted Zone: A Roundtable Discussion
Department: East Asian Studies
Date and Time: April 27, 2016 | 5:00 PM-7:00 PMEvent Location: 469 Humanities Instructional Bldg.
Event Details
Last September the Tokyo-based Cheon-Mack-Gomibuchi-Ko Research Group travelled to Namie, Okuma, Nihonmatsu and other towns in and around the 20-kilometer exclusion zone of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power plant, speaking with people who have unexpectedly become local archivists and community narrators. One month earlier UCI’s Margherita Long visited Fukushima-shi to visit sites mentioned in the post-disaster testimonies she is studying. Our round-table will begin with a short research report from all five participants and move to a discussion of the ethical, political, and philosophical questions we are posing in our work.
Note: This will take place in Japanese and Korean.