What impact did the disasters of 3/11--the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster--have on Japanese memory?
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Theodore C. Bestor, a specialist on contemporary Japanese culture and society, will present the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters, an online portal containing a wealth of digital documents about the 3/11 disasters at Harvard University. This project, "a site of shared memory of those most directly affected" by the disasters, allows individual users to add materials, interact, and curate their own collections.
Harry Harootunian's work has included explorations of interwar Japan, and social and cultural life following the recession of the 1990s.
Mona El-Ghobashy, an expert on Egyptian political movements, Kevin Ochsner, a social cognitive neuroscientist studying emotion, self-control and self-perception, and Charles Strozier, a psychologist specializing in terrorism and violence and Director of the John Jay Center on Terrorism.
New York City, NY; NYC