Humanities After Fukushima
社会・人文科学系の関係者の間では次のような国際会議が開催されるということで話題になっています。ダンス・バレエ、舞踊教育といった現場もこの問題とは密接に関係があります。これは日本にいても海外に滞在していても重要な問題です。
International Symposium
Humanities After Fukushima
Dialogues between Cultural Studies and Philosophy in the Post-Nuclear Age of Critical Junctures
This small-scale international symposium is inspired by Nishiyama Yuji’s documentary film “The Right to Philosophy”, comprised of his interviews with those associated with the International College of Philosophy founded in Paris by Jaques Derrida and Francois Chatelet in 1983. This gathering will try to address issues surrounding the past, present and future of Humanities education and research in the age of crisis. The “crisis” particularly resonates with the natural disasters on March 11, 2011 in Japan, and the following calamitous events centred on the nuclear power-plant’s meltdown at Fukushima.
- What could be the roles and responsibilities of Humanities scholars facing this crisis?
- Can University education stand up to the multiple challenges posed by the now increasingly technologically sophisticated neoliberal/capitalist politics?
- What could be the viable relationship between Cultural Studies and Philosophy education?
- And is it too vulgar to talk about Art and Literature after “Fukushima”?
When: Friday, 28 October 2011 – Sunday, 30 October 2011
Venue: Birkbeck College, Main Building, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX, London.
Speakers include
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)
Sabu Kosho (New York, Artist/Activist),
Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University)
Ryuta Imafuku (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and more.
Discussants include
Costas Couzinas (Birkbeck)
Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) and more.
Screening: 'The Right to Philosophy' from 11:00 to 14:00 on Saturday 29th October Followed by panel discussion with director Yuji Nishiyama See the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4VhUAhxSc
For more details and registration visit:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2154622534
or visit LAPCSF blog: lapcsf.blogspot.com
Organized by London Asia Pacific Cultural Studies Forum and Birkbeck's Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practices