If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series was launched in 2007 by the Japan Studies Committee to honor the legacy of Tetsuo Najita, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and the College, and his contribution to the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series was launched in 2007 by the Japan Studies Committee to honor the legacy of Tetsuo Najita, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and the College, and his contribution to the...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This lecture, “Haruki Murakami and the Question of Democracy in Post-Fukushima Japan,” focuses on rethinking the relation of “plurality” (Hannah Arendt) with “exclusion” and “violence” (Giorgio Agamben), with a focus on Haruki Murakami’s recent novels “Tasaki Tsukuru and the Year of His Pilgrimage” and “1Q84” in order to trace...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Forty Years of Japanese Feminism: What It Has Achieved … and What It Has Not By Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University Has the second wave of feminism improved women’s status in Japan? Chizuko Ueno discusses achievements and failures of the last 40 years, as well as the lingering effects of the March 11 Fukushima...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Forty Years of Japanese Feminism: What It Has Achieved … and What It Has Not By Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University Has the second wave of feminism improved women’s status in Japan? Chizuko Ueno discusses achievements and failures of the last 40 years, as well as the lingering effects of the March 11 Fukushima...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Event Location: Beijing, China After the US presidential debates, Elliot J. Feldman led a discussion on November 15, 2012, at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. Feldman, Senior Partner and National Leader of BakerHostetler’s international trade practice, discussed the campaign, the outcomes, and the implications for...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Event Location: Beijing, China After the US presidential debates, Elliot J. Feldman led a discussion on November 15, 2012, at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. Feldman, Senior Partner and National Leader of BakerHostetler’s international trade practice, discussed the campaign, the outcomes, and the implications for...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Yuki Miyamoto, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at DePaul University, leads a roundtable discussion in which audience members directed questions to a panel of speakers. The panelists included: Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago Hiroaki Koide,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Yuki Miyamoto, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at DePaul University, leads a roundtable discussion in which audience members directed questions to a panel of speakers. The panelists included: Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago Hiroaki Koide,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima on May 5, 2012, keynote speaker Hiroaki Koide, nuclear reactor specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University's Nuclear Research Institute, provides an overview of the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and highlights the destructive nature of nuclear...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima on May 5, 2012, keynote speaker Hiroaki Koide, nuclear reactor specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University's Nuclear Research Institute, provides an overview of the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and highlights the destructive nature of nuclear...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima on May 5, 2012, UChicago professor Robert Rosner offers his thoughts on the Fukushima disaster and the safety and communications issues related to the management of nuclear power. Rosner is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Introduction by Norma Field As we enter the eighth decade of the nuclear era, how can we think about—and act upon—the relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy? The reality of Fukushima, following upon the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, gives...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Roundtable discussion.Topics include nuclear disasters, alternatives to nuclear energy, staying informed, and making a difference. As we enter the eighth decade of the nuclear era, how can we think about—and act upon—the relationship between nuclear weapons...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Panel Discussion II.Topics include energy policy, alternative practices, community conflicts, and activism in Illinois. This panel follows a screening of Ashes to Honey: For a Sustainable Future by Hitomi Kamanaka, a film documenting the decades- long...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Panel Discussion I. Topics include the history of nuclear weapons, testing, and energy, the role of scientists in discourse about nuclear science, and geographical issues in nuclear testing and power plant locations. This panel follows a screening of Atomic...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Introduction by Norma Field As we enter the eighth decade of the nuclear era, how can we think about—and act upon—the relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy? The reality of Fukushima, following upon the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, gives...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Roundtable discussion.Topics include nuclear disasters, alternatives to nuclear energy, staying informed, and making a difference. As we enter the eighth decade of the nuclear era, how can we think about—and act upon—the relationship between nuclear weapons...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Panel Discussion II.Topics include energy policy, alternative practices, community conflicts, and activism in Illinois. This panel follows a screening of Ashes to Honey: For a Sustainable Future by Hitomi Kamanaka, a film documenting the decades- long...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. May 21, 2011 The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present - A Symposium Panel Discussion I. Topics include the history of nuclear weapons, testing, and energy, the role of scientists in discourse about nuclear science, and geographical issues in nuclear testing and power plant locations. This panel follows a screening of Atomic...