Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Friday, April 12, 2019 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Tawes Hall,
1100
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities, Center for Comparative Literary Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Department of Germanic Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the Goethe Institut. Supported by a Grant from the Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council
Conference Schedule
9:30-11:00 | Panel One - Nuclear Time and Alternate Futures
Justine Wiesinger (Bates College) - "Looking Glass: Nuclear Time in Sato Shijenori's Play 'Kagami no kuni no kaijin Nijumenso'"
Suzuko Mousel Knott (Connecticut College) - "The Emissary's Half Life: Time and Alternative Futures in Yoko Tawada's Post-Apocalyptic Worlds"
11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 | Panel Two - Nuclear Risk and the Imagination on Non-Human Animals
Doug Slaymaker (University of Kentucky) - "'First a bear, then the end of the world': Animals and Imagination in Post-Disaster Fiction"
Bradley Boovy (Oregon State University) - "Fission, Food, and Three-Eyed Fish"
1:00-2:30 | Lunch
2:30-4:00 | Panel Three - Writing Nuclear Futures
Rachel DiNitto (University of Oregon) - "Slow Violence and Japan's Global South: From Dubai to Tohoku"
Katharina Gerstenberger (University of Utah) - "Of Culture and Contamination: Adolf Muschg's 'Heimkehr nach Fukushima'"
