Conference: Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Fukushima – Articulations of the Nuclear. The Case of Japan.
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Thursday, 19th May 2022
10:00 | Registration |
10:20 - 10:30 | Opening Address |
10:30-12:45 | André Hertrich: Victims on Display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Lauren Constance: Digitalisation and Visualisation of Eyewitness Accounts in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Anna Wiemann: Living with the Nuclear: Memory Narratives of Fukushima Farmers |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 - 15:30 | Katharina Hülsmann: Depictions of the Nuclear in Occupation Period Manga Michele M. Mason: Splitting the Atom: Yuka Nishioka's Manga Rebuke of the Nuclear Weapon and Power Divide |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | Okuda Hiroko: Rhetorical Perspectives on Post-nuclear Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Within Fukushima Tobias Weiß: The Responsibility for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in Japanese Newspapers |
17:30 | Short Remarks |
Friday, 20th May 2022
9:30 - 11:45 | Stephan Köhn: At the Crossroads to Oblivion – Ōta Yōko’s Literature as a Counter-Narrative to National History Writing Rachel DiNitto: Narrating Nuclear Geographies and Victims: The Late Fiction of Tsushima Yūko Shigesawa Atsuko: From John Hersey’s Hiroshima to Fukushima: The Atomic General’s Long Shadow over the Nuclear Narrative |
11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
13:00 - 16:30 | Excursion to Civilian Shelter at Documentation Centre DOKK |
16:30 - 16:45 | Coffee Break |
16:45 - 18:00 | Student Panel Prange Collection Research Marie-Christine Dreßen: From Cities in Ruins to Ambassadors of World Peace – Discussions of the Nuclear in the Gordon W. Prange Collection Franziska König: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power after World War Two – A Look at the Discourse of Newspaper and Magazine Articles in the Gordon W. Prange Collection |
Saturday, 21st May 2022
9:30 - 11:45 | Steffi Richter: Making the Invisible/s Visible. Genbaku and Genpatsu in the Context of the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels Christopher P. Hood: Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World Felix Jawinski: Representing Nuclear Energy in Japanese Postwar Educational Movies, Industrial Movies and Scientific Movies |
11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee Break |
12:00 - 13:30 | Robert Jacobs: The Passive-Aggressive Atom: Can Nuclear Reactors be “Peaceful”? |
13:30 - 14:45 | Lunch Break |
14:45 - 16:00 | Roundtable Discussion |
16:30 | Final Remarks |