Dear SSJ-Forum Colleagues,

I wanted to send a reminder about an upcoming symposium held at the I-House in Tokyo, from 1-6 p.m. on August 8. The editors (Daisuke Naito, Ryan Sayre, Heather Swanson, and Satsuki Takahashi) of the book _To See Once More the Stars: Living in a Post-Fukushima World_ collected over 80 short essays about the Fukushima disaster, written by scholars, artists, activists, evacuees, and other observers. All of the book's essays are published in both English and Japanese, and the symposium, like the kaleidoscopic book, aims to engage Japanese and international audiences simultaneously on the social, cultural, personal, and political implications of the disaster. Sensing that the book on this grave topic might be light on Star Wars references, I titled my own essay Ewokification, but I had the good fortune to be able to translate about twenty of the others, including several whose authors will be presenting at the upcoming symposium. The symposium which will also include several distinguished commentators on the volume and the project. Among the speakers will be:

Yuji Genda (University of Tokyo)
Ken Ohori (Miyazaki University)
Satsuki Takahashi (George Mason University) David Hughes (Rutgers University) Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University) Daisuke Naito (Center for International Forestry
Research)
Chihiro Kumashiro (Kyoto University)
Shigeki Uno (University of Tokyo)
Hugh Raffles (The New School)
Ryan Sayre (UCLA)
Junko Habu (UC-Berkeley)
David Leheny (Princeton University)
Takanori Oishi (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto)

You can read more about the book here:

Webpage: http://toseeoncemorethestars.weebly.com/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/toseeoncemorethestars

The program will primarily be in Japanese, though several of the speakers will present in English (with translation), and audience members are free to ask questions or participate in the discussion in either language.

The symposium is free, but the organizers ask that people RSVP (with name and affiliation) to:
symposium0808@gmail.com.

Date: August 8, 2014
Time: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: The International House of Japan, Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall
Directions:: http://www.i-house.or.jp/access.html

I hope to see you there.

Best wishes,

Dave

David Leheny
Department of East Asian Studies
Princeton University