Environmental and Urban Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, and Bard's Luce Initiative on Asia and the Environment Present
Living with the Fukushima Nuclear
(Accident? Disaster? Crime?)
A lecture by Norma Field, Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies,
The University of Chicago
More than three-and-a-half years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. It has disappeared, for the most part, from the headlines and consciousness of the world. But for the residents of Fukushima and others scattered over the Japanese archipelago, the disaster is ever present, perhaps most of all for those who would banish it from their minds. What does "living with Fukushima" mean? How is it the same and different from living with the impact of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011? What difference does it make if we consider it an "accident," a "disaster," or a "crime"? What if we add the choice of "scientific experiment" to this series--how do the terms affect each other, and how might the series of terms affect how we think about the whole of the nuclear age, going back, for instance, to the Trinity test site in New Mexico, where the National Cancer Institute has decided to study, 70 years later, the impact of the explosion on local residents?
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Location: Weis Cinema