Virtual conference on Fukushima

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STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster & Teach 3.11
3.11 Virtual Conference: Building a Bridge to Disaster Studies
An online pre-circulated papers workshop, with scheduled open comment period
11-14 March 2013
All participants welcome!

Welcome to the 3.11 "Virtual Conference," co-sponsored by the STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster and Teach 3.11*1. At 8:00 a.m. JST, March 11th (7:00 p.m., March 10 EDT) we opened the conference by posting a collection of essays that we sincerely hope you will find interesting and provocative for discussion.

Here's how the conference will work:

· Please read any/all of the “featured essays” at
http://fukushimaforum.wordpress.com/online-forum-2/second-3-11-virtual-conference-2013/.

· We then invite you to post your reactions to the essays, via the “Leave a Reply” feature at the end of the essay. We encourage you to sign the post with: your name and institutional affiliation at the end of your post.

(e.g.
……
Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Troy, NY USA

We also invite you to post information about your own work. To do so, please,

· Post your own thoughts and new topics for discussion at the Fukushima Forum Google Group site*2, either by using the [+New Post] feature at the site, or by simply sending an email to fukushima-forum at googlegroups.com. (The Forum will remain entirely open for the duration of the Virtual Conference.)

You can also see the other participants’ posts there. We may also take the best posts at this site, and add it to our set of “featured essays” during the conference.

Our hope is that the virtual conference will continue to provide people with an opportunity to mark the anniversary of the March 11, 2011 disasters with a time of reflection, scholarly inquiry, and open conversation.

Sincerely,

Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer)
Principal organizer, STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster


Lisa Onaga (Nanyang Technological University)

Managing Editor, Teach 3.11

STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster & Teach 3.11
3.11 Virtual Conference: Building a Bridge to Disaster Studies
An online pre-circulated papers workshop, with scheduled open comment period
11-14 March 2013

List of Papers

Recovery and Resilience: Japanese Communities After The 3/11 Earthquake:

An Actor Oriented Perspective

Cecilia IoanaManoliu(University of Tsukuba)

Post-Fukushima: Signaled And Silenced Aspects Of Nuclear Safety Regulation

MarjaYlönen(University of Jyväskylä)

Reactions To Fukushima In Finland, France And The UK – Rupture Or Continuity In The Nuclear Techno-Politics?

MarkkuLehtonen(University of Sussex)

Nuclear As A Transnational Study Object: Introspection And New Perspectives Of Research After The Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident

Tino Bruno (University of Lyon)

The Making Of The Map, The Making Of The Risk

Charlotte Cabasse(University of California Berkeley)

Performing Antinuclear Movements In Post-3.11 Japan

David Novak (UC Santa Barbara)

Aid As Analogy: Ambiguities Of “Lessons Learned” In Post-Disaster Recovery

Chika Watanabe (Cornell University)

Is Science Communication For Scientific Literacy? – Iodine Salt Rush-Purchasing Tide in China

Xiaomin Zhu (Peking University)

The Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring Project in the Vicinity of Fukuichi

Yuko Kobayashi (Anti-Nuclear Activist)

It Is No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk?

Yuji Miyake (Yokohama, Professional Engineer)


Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters: Placing Chernobyl, 9/11, Katrina, Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima Dai-Ichi and Other Events in Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Synopsis of 2012 SHOT Workshop)

Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer)

Synopsis of the Sessions and Papers on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disaster, 4S/EASST Annual Meeting
Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer)

(p.s. if you encounter problems with RPI’s spam filter, please send the message to my alternate email account: atsushi_akera at hotmail.com, preferably with a quick note to this account indicating that you sent a message there since otherwise I don’t check that account regularly. – Thanks!)

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Atsushi Akera

Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies

Rensselaer Polytechnic institute

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