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October 16, 2024

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema" with Rachel DiNitto

From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2024/10/12

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema"  with Rachel DiNitto
 
Wed, Oct. 23, 8:00-9:00 am JST (Tue, Oct. 22, 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
How do Japanese films comment on environmental disasters, and what kind of insights can we gain on how people process and address these threats? We will discuss environmental crisis based on the new edited volume "Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema," featuring films made between 1954 and 2020, from activist documentaries to monster and cult films such as "Godzilla," with topics ranging from environmental destruction and industrial pollution to radiation. Throughout, Japanese directors have rallied images of disaster to produce powerful environmental commentary.

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Rachel DiNitto, professor of Japanese literature at the University of Oregon, researches the nuclear environmental humanities through contemporary cultural production, including literature, film and manga. Her book "Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster" (2019) was a winner of the Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title award. She has published chapters and articles on Japanese film in the Japanese Cinema Book, Japan Forum, the Journal of Japanese Studies and the Asia-Pacific Journal. Her current project, "Environmental Echoes and Nuclear Traces in Japanese Literature," pairs post-Fukushima fiction with novels and short stories from earlier eras of environmental and nuclear harm.
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and the director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies and management; employment practices and corporate culture; financial markets; manufacturing; and innovation. Her 2020 book, "The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan" (Stanford University Press), won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and has been translated into Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA: 日本のビジ ネス・リインベンション (Nikkei, 2022). Her most recent book, シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す ("Japan Re-emerges"), was published in March 2024 in Japanese. 
 
Register here: https://bit.ly/4eGjNP9

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