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
(d-slater[at]sophia.ac.jp)

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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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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese
Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo