Our Mission
Contents
of the project
The project consists of a film festival "Global Hibakusha"
and a symposium "Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2005: Memories and
Visions," with academic presentations by Japanese culture
specialists in the US, and speeches by invited guests, including
five hibakusha from Hiroshima. The event also will host some
music performances and film screenings.
Background and necessity
2005 will mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the desperate pleas from
survivors of the bombings, the danger of nuclear arms in the
world has only been increasing. The hibakusha, the irreplaceable
witnesses of the bombings, are aging and dying. As teachers
and students of Japanese culture in the U.S., we feel the
need to revive what the hibakusha have experienced in our
consciousness, before they disappear from our collective memory.
Objective, goals, achievement
It is our primary goal to encourage educators to teach about
nuclear issues in the US, and to spread the message of peace
that the hibakusha bring to us. Many of us, who teach Japanese
culture in the US, do try to incorporate the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki into our curriculum. Yet, we have
not had a national gathering to discuss the various issues
that a course on the atomic bombing would entail. This symposium,
along with the film festival, will offer an opportunity to
teachers and students of Japanese culture to confront and
rethink one of the most destructive and defining events in
the history of humankind.
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Organizing Committee Members
Tufts
University
Charles
Inouye, Professor, Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages
and Literature, Tufts University
Hosea Hirata, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department
of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, Tufts
University
Paul Joseph, Professor of Sociology and Director, Peace and Justice
Studies Program
Roberta Oster Sachs, Lecturer of Tufts University College of Citizenship
and Public Service
Sato Asaoka, Research Associate
Steve Cohen, Lecturer of Tufts University Department of Education
MIT
Patricia
E. Gercik, Managing Director, MIT Japan Program
Daniela
Reichert, Director
of Intern Placement, MIT Japan Program
Yoshimi
Nagaya, Director
of Japanese Language Program, MIT
Students
Team
Kei
Okamura, Tufts University, Director of Public Relations
Rachel
Olanoff, Tufts University, Director of Student Symposium
Daniel Savilonis, Tufts University,
Assistant of IT
Yoko Kawashima, Tufts University
Katherine Hofmann, Tufts University
Leslie Lin, Tufts University
Erika Gerber, Tufts University
Lenora Sharman, Tufts University
Carolina Schidknecht, Tufts University
Mari Kawagoe, Tufts University
Gabriel Mas, Tufts University
Filip Maes, Tufts University
Yuichiro Okutsu, Tufts University
Max Felker-kantor, Tufts University, Student symposium organizer
Julie Ng, Tufts University, Student symposium organizer/web master
Kuong Ly, Boston College |
Our Sponsors
Tufts University
College of Citizenship and Public Service
Japanese Program, Tufts University
World Civ Program, Tufts University
Department of German, Russian, & Asian Languages & Literature,
Tufts University
Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University
Asian Studies, Tufts University
MIT Japan Program
MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tufts Diversity Fund
Charles
Smith Endowment Fund
Atom Transportation Co., Ltd.
American Studies Program, Tufts University
Department of Psychology, Tufts University
The Education Department, Tufts University
Harvard
Univesity, Edwin
Reischauer Institute
of Japanese Studies
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Our Supporters
The
Japan Society of Boston
The
Brattle Film Foundation
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