Institut français de recherche sur le Japon à la Maison franco-japonaise (Umifre 19, MEAE-CNRS)

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October 10^th, 2023 (Tuesday)
Day 1: Sustain Asia and Anthropocene Studies

Venue: room 601

9:30-10:00 am - Meet & Greet

10:00-10:45 am - Opening Remarks

Speakers:

• Didier MARTY-DESSUS, Counsellor for Science and Technology, Embassy of France to Japan
• Thomas GARCIN, Director, French Research Institute on Japan in Maison Franco-Japonaise
• Blandine RIPERT, Director, French Institute of Pondicherry
• Jacques MALEVAL, Director of the Tokyo Office, French National Centre for Scientific Research

10:45 am-12:30 pm - Session 1: Questioning Anthropocene Studies in Asian Contexts

Speakers:

• Laÿna DOZ, Project Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) - Conceptualizations of Nature in East and South-East Asia
• Isabelle GIRAUDOU, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) - Crisis Lawyering and the Search for Alternative Chronotopographies in the Anthropocene-Japan
• Paul JOBIN, Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) - An East Asian Perspective on Gaiapolitics

Moderator: Adrienne SALA, Assistant Professor, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

12:00-13:30 pm: Lunch Break 

13:30-15:15 pm - Session 2: Nuclear Issues and Anthropocene Studies in Asia

Speakers:

• ISHIDA Hidetaka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) - The Deluge Comes Up to My Soul: After Fukushima, How to Treat Information on Wastewater?
• Sophie HOUDART, Senior Research Director, CNRS (Tokyo, Japan) - Closing or Opening up a Space for Disaster Experience: How to Learn from the Fukushima Disaster? An Anthropological Perspective
• Cécile ASANUMA-BRICE, Senior Researcher, CNRS (Tokyo, Japan) - Post-nuclear Disaster Reconstruction, a Myth? The Consequences of Countryside Villages Projected as a Global Model of Post-Nuclear Accident Resilience.

Moderator: Raphael LANGUILLON, Researcher, French Research Institute on Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

15:15-15:45 pm: Coffee Break

15:45-17:30 pm - Session 3: The Anthropocene City and its Debates in Asia

Speakers:

• MURASAWA Mahoro, Professor, Ryukoku University (Kyoto, Japan) - On Urbanization and the Academic Turn: Perspectives on the History of Philosophy and Psychological Landscape Studies on 'Secondary Nature'
• Christoph RUPPRECHT, Associate Professor, Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan) - Sustainable Multispecies Cities: Concepts, Experiments, Visions
• Andrea FLORES-URUSHIMA, Lecturer, Kyoto Seika University (Kyoto, Japan) - Debating Geodiversity and the Geomorphological Legacies of the Anthropocene City in Asia with a Focus on the Postwar Japanese Urbanization

Moderator: Raphael LANGUILLON, Researcher, French Research Institute on Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

18:30-20:30 pm: Dinner

Official address: Charles-Henri BROSSEAU, Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of France to Japan (Tokyo, Japan) - To be confirmed

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