The Sophia University
Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC)

Research Unit “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”

FRIDAY, June 28th: 1-6pm
Ethnographies of 3.11 Memorialization
Sophia University, bldg. 10, room 301

(For related program, see bellow
MONDAY, July 1st: Art and 3.11 Memorialization)

Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus Bldg. 10, room 301 http://www.fla.sophia.ac.jp/about/access
Papers in English; no prior registration necessary

Please contact David H. Slater with any questions
(d-slater@sophia.ac.jp)

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FINAL PROGRAM
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Ethnographies of 3.11 Memorialization
Friday June 28th (1pm-5pm)

Discussants:

Marilyn Ivy (Columbia)
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. Isao Hayashi, National Museum of Ethnology Materializing Memories

2. David H. Slater, Sophia University
Fixity and Circulation of Memory Objects:
Family Photo Albums Lost in the Waves

3. Shuhei Kimura, University of Tsukuba
Memorizing Our Disaster: A Note on Commemorative Objects of the Tsunami

Break

Panel Two
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4. 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

5. Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Tohoku University Memorials, Cemeteries and Social Reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Miyagi

Discussion
End (5:30)

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And 3 days later...

Art and 3.11 Memorialization
Sophia University, bldg. 10 room 301
Monday July 1st (1pm-5pm)

Discussants:
Michio Hayashi (Sophia)
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
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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
End 5:30

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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