[Symposium "Cultivating a Culture of Peace in Asia"]

By highlighting cultural activities in Asia that contribute to peace in the contemporary world, this program will examine how culture can confront the violence and disruptions created by war and conflicts in Asia in the recent past and present and create a basis for peace.

* Coordinator: Ashiwa Yoshiko, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
* Admission: Free (reservations required)
* Language: English/Japanese (with simultaneous translation)
* Sponsor: Japan Foundation
* In cooperation with Center for the Study of Peace and
Reconciliation, Hitotsubashi University, Tessen-kai, INSLA,
Arts Initiative Tokyo, and Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and
Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site

Symposium 2
"Arts and Peace in Contemporary Asia"
How do artists in Asia understand and express these past and present conflicts and violence? This program gathers together artists and specialists active in Asia to witness this fresh and critical phase of peace and culture in contemporary art as found in their works.

* Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 2:00 - 5:30 pm
* Speakers: Khadim Ali (Artist/Pakistan), Dinh Q.
Le
(Artist/Vietnam), Ishiuchi Miyako
(Photographer/Japan), Wong Hoy
Cheong (Artist/Malaysia), Ushiroshoji Masahiro (Professor, Kyushu
University/Japan)

for more info

http://www.i-house.or.jp/en/ProgramActivities/publicpro
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Registration: Program Department, International House of Japan
Tel: 03-3470-3211 Fax: 03-3470-3170 E-mail:
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