Date:
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Location:
President's Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM. Reception following in the Art Museum until 9:00 PM
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Theodore Bestor - Harvard University - Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, Dept. of Anthropology & Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
In the wake of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011 which devastated the Tohoku region of Japan with a massive earthquake, an enormous set of tsunami, and the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, both Japanese and foreign observers struggled to make sense of these events. Bestor examines some ways in which Japanese culture frames disasters, and based on fieldwork in Tohoku in 2011 and 2012, how local meaning-making unfolds.
This event is free, open to the public, and sponsored in part by: The Department of Anthropology, Student Government Association, and the Japan/America Society of Kentucky