<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce, although a little last minute, a workshop at Tokyo University, Komaba Campus this coming Friday, May 17th from 6pm. </div><div>Although the topic is not directly related to Film and Media studies, I believe it would be of some interest to some of you.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27px/normal Candara; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">Thinking Urban Space and the Social in Post-Fukushima Japan. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">Ramona Handel-Bajema (AmeriCares), Christophe Thouny (University of Tokyo), Ueno Toshiya (Wakō University), Yamamoto Tadahito (The Institute of Politics and Economics), Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro (Waseda University)</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Candara; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 6pm</font></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Candara; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">The University of Tokyo, Komaba / Bld. 18 / Collaboration Room 3</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Candara; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">"Todos Somos Japon" has been the rallying call to relocalize the March 2011 catastrophe on a planetary urban scale. For the spectacular event has been in many ways a missed encounter with a planetary urban reality. 3.11 is analogically aligned with 9.11. It captures and freezes the event into a national trauma, a "post-" inaugurating a chronological rupture that really only reconfirms a subsumption into and subjection to neo-liberalism and war. Yet nobody is Fukushima, which still preserves its promise of </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; ">resisting its</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; "> </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; ">complete</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; "> </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; ">capture by discourses of national identity and security.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "> It has thus become necessary to discuss this event as both a global spectacle and a local situation. By addressing issues of the spectacular, the planetary and the social, in relation to current strategies of urban redevelopment and social life, this workshop aims at establishing an initial discursive framework from which to ask what has changed, and begin to think the event of Fukushima. </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Candara; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">English and Japanese⎜Free Admission ⎜No Registration Required</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Candara; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>Organized by Christophe Thouny</i> <i>email: <a href="mailto:ct843@nyu.edu">ct843@nyu.edu</a></i></font></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The workshop is open to the public. While each participant will make a short presentation and lead the ensuing discussion between the invited scholars, participation from the audience will be actively encouraged.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Christophe Thouny</div><div><br></div><div><img height="613" width="793" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="a45489f7-6ef2-465e-970e-0957936849f9" src="cid:733E80BA-3BB1-4892-B667-769FB27EE900"></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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