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Lessons of Fukushima – Feb 24, 2012
The Center for Asian Studies and the Center for Sustainable Communities are pleased to inform you of an exciting event taking place at Willamette University next month: a two day symposium on the “Lessons of Fukushima” on February 24-25, 2012. It will take place Friday afternoon from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm and continue again on Saturday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. All events are in Paulus Lecture Hall, Rm. 201 at the Law School.
The keynote address will be delivered by Brett Walker at 3:15 pm on Friday Feb. 24th. He will be speaking on “The 3.11 Triple Disaster and Japan’s Environmental Past.” Professor Walker is Regents Professor at Montana State University the author of several books including Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (2010), winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History.
A complete schedule of the symposium as well as abstracts of the papers to be presented may be found at: www.willamette.edu/events/fukushima
Symposium panels will address:
-the health and environmental implications of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster;
-the management of communication and information during this crisis and related events;
-the social and cultural responses to the crisis in Japan and beyond — including the testimony of members of our campus community;
-the politics of nuclear regulation and anti-nuclear advocacy;
and the role of charitable organizations, volunteers, Mercy Corps, and citizen groups in assisting recovery efforts.
The symposium is designed to be accessible to a general audience and the format is intended to foster conversations. On Saturday Feb. 25 from 10 am-2 pm WU students will be presiding over a family-friendly activity room next to Paulus Lecture Hall that will feature informational displays, documentary footage, and lessons in folding origami peace cranes. Please mark this important event on your calendar and help us to spread the word to students and community members alike.
For more information, please feel free to contact Warren Binford (Law) <wbinford@willamette.edu>, Ron Loftus (CLA) <rloftus@willamette.edu>, or Cecily McCaffrey (CLA) <cmccaffr@willamette.edu>.
March 28, 2011-Spring Term Events
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Challenging the 18th Amendment and the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance), or How to Stop the Cycle of Coup
d’etats in Pakistan?”
Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Barrister-at-Law Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Gerlinger Lounge
4:00 pm
April 6-10, 2011
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
FOCUS: CHINA
• New films by Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan
• Visiting directors Liu Jiayin (Oxhide, Oxhide II) and Zhu Wen (Thomas Mao)
• Shelly Kraicer introduces “digital generation” of Chinese film
• classical Chinese film, The Goddess, with Ruan Lingyu (1934)
• Symposium with producers Terence Chang and David Linde
• Animation by Sun Xun and video art by Hung Keung at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
For a complete schedule, please visit http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/
Friday, April 8, 2011
Symposium
“China’s Role in Regulating the Global Information Economy”
University of Oregon School of Law, William W. Knight Law Center
9am – 5:30pm (A reception will follow the event)
Monday, April 11, 2011
Panel Discussion
“Foodways in China: New Scholarly Trajectories”
Ina Asim, History, University of Oregon; Daniel Buck, Geography, University of Oregon; Françoise Sabban, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Mark Swislocki, History, NYU Abu Dhabi;, Joanna Waley-Cohen, History, NYU
Knight Library Browsing Room
1:00-3:30 pm
Monday, April 11, 2011
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Reflections on Pets in Twentieth Century China”
Mark Swislocki, Department of History, NYU Abu Dhabi
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm
Monday, April 18, 2011
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Drivers of Globalization: From the Developmental State to the Rise of Lead Firms in the Asian Newly Industrialized Economies”
Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Public Lecture
“Project 85 as X-cultural Ecriture”
Claire Huot, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies, University of Calgary and Robert Majzels, Department of English, University of Calgary
EMU Gumwood Room
3:00 pm
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze”
Taylor Atkins, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:30 pm
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation: Transnational Politics
and Postcolonial Citizenship, 1945-2009”
Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm