The 8th Annual Alan Templeton Speaker Series for Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures presents:
The Culture of The Fukushima Disasters: Japanese Film, Literature, Manga, and Photography after 3.11
This two-day event explores cultural texts that have emerged in the wake of the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. All parts of the event are free and open to the public.
Please use the "select a date" option to RSVP to attend one or both days of the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/8th-annual-alan-templeton-lecture-the-culture-of-the-fukushima-disasters-tickets-431926322257.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Continental-U.S. Premiere Screening of Bon-Uta, a Song from Home (dir. Nakae Yuji, 2018)
6:30pm - 9: 00pm
UC Davis: 1002 Cruess Hall
Friday, November 4, 2022
Presentations on Film, Literature, Manga, and Photography relating to 3.11
9:30am - 11:30 am
UC Davis: Student Community Center Multipurpose Room
Ai Iwane (artist, photographer, film producer)
• “FUKUSHIMA ONDO, the Song and its Rediscovered Origin after 3.11: Reconnection Between Hawaii and Fukushima”
Rachel DiNitto, Professor of modern and contemporary Japanese literary and cultural studies, University of Oregon
• “Manga, Radiation, and Politics after 3/11”
Dan O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at Berkeley
• “Animal Media: Documenting Life in Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone”
Doug Slaymaker, Professor of Japanese, University of Kentucky
• “Kobayashi Erika and Radioactive Afterlives”
Roundtable Discussion: 3/11 in Contemporary Japanese Culture
11:45am - 12:45 pm
UC Davis: Student Community Center Multipurpose Room
