[KineJapan] Workshop on Post-Fukushima Japan, Urban Space, and the Planetary - September 19th

[Christophe Thouny]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce a workshop at Tokyo University, Komaba Campus this coming Thursday, September 19th from 6pm. This workshop builds up on a previous one organized last May.
Although the topic is not directly related to Film and Media studies, I believe it would be of some interest to some of you.



Transitory Architectures:  Dwelling in the Urban Planetary After Fukushima

Cécile Asanuma-Brice (CNRS), Ramona Handel-Bajema (AmeriCares), Christophe Thouny (University of Tokyo), Ueno Toshiya (Wakō University), Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro (Waseda University)


Thursday, September 19th, 2013 at 6pm
The University of Tokyo, Komaba / Bld. 18 / Collaboration Room 2

The Japanese social critique Yabu Shirō recently claimed that the double catastrophe of March 2013 has made Japanese people foreigners to their own land, a situation that for him potentially opens Japan onto a planetary condition. This provocative and problematic statement will be the starting point for this second workshop on urban space in post-Fukuhima Japan. The relation between homelessness, transitoriness and urban dwelling was central to Kon Wajirō's work on modern urban dwelling after 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and still raises crucial questions for thinking the urban planetary. There remains in particular a crucial link to draw between the definition of urban dwelling places in terms of transitoriness and the contemporary banalization of temporary architectures of survival on a global scale, at a time when tens of thousands of Japanese evacuees still live in so-called temporary housing facilities.

English and Japanese⎜Free Admission ⎜No Registration Required
Organized by Christophe Thouny   email: ct843 at nyu.edu



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.

Best regards,

Christophe Thouny


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	Christophe Thouny, PhD
	University of Tokyo 
        Global Communication Research Center
        
	tel : 080-3366-9018
	email : ct843 at nyu.edu
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