Disaster/Life: [i]Ars Vivendi[/i] as the Great Earthquake

published: 2012-12-13

Event Overview

leaflet download (PDF, 2.14MB)It is after 16 years of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 that the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. The great earthquake produces not only a lot of “death” but “the art of living”(i.e., ars vivendi) against it. “Life” in the great earthquake is actually the process of life of people who are between nature and society and, at the same time, the field in which wisdom and technique which enable people to live under disaster are produced.

In this symposium we will consider both the process of life of people who live as minorities and the art of living people with disabilities or illness produce through research on foreign people and people with disabilities under the great earthquake.

Date & Time January 14, 2013 (Mon./holiday) 10:00〜16:45 (Doors open 9:40〜)
Place Conference Room, Soshikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University (Access map / Campus map)
Host Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University
Participation Free of charge / Advance registration required (Capacity: 100 persons)
Language Japanese only (No interpretation provided)

leaflet (PDF 2.14MB)

Program

10:00〜10:10 Opening remarks
10:10〜12:00 (1)Disaster/Life: What has the disaster brought to immigrants?

  • A Paradise Built in Disaster and Foreigners: With Emphasis on Questionnaires of Foreign Nationals Living in Ishinomaki
    Kihwan Kwak (Tohoku Gakuin University)
  • March 11 and The “Sai/Sei” (i.e., Disaster/Life) of Brazilians in Japan
    Angelo Ishi (Musashi University)

Discussant: Chie Ishida (Ritsumeikan University)
Chair: Yoshiyuki Koizumi (Ritsumeikan University)
13:00〜14:15 (2)Special Lecture

  • Beyond Social Exclusion: Gesture for Ars Vivendi
    Akira Kurihara (Ritsumeikan University)

Chair: Josuke Amada (Ritsumeikan University)
14:30〜16:45 (3)Life of People with Disabilities under the Earthquake

  • At the Separated Place from Re-establishment: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Life of People with Disabilities
    You Tsuchiya (Aichi Unievrsity)
  • Civic Re-establishment Activities for Support of Affected People with Disabilities
    Kei Sato (Hosei University)
  • Support for People with Disabilities under the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: My Experience as Involvement in Disabled People's Movements in Kobe in Early 90s
    Yasunobu Nozaki (Ritsumeikan University)

Chair: Shin'ya Tateiwa (Ritsumeikan University)

How to Register

We accept your preliminary application via e-mail, telephone and fax until January 8, 2013 (Once it reaches the fixed number, we will finish the registration).

How to register via e-mail:
The subject of the e-mail: 「01/14 災/生：大震災の生存学参加申し込み」You are asked to write in the body part of the e-mail

  1. 1) Your name
  2. 2) Affiliation
  3. 3) Where to contact (e-mail address/phone number)
  4. 4) Necessary arrangement if any: Space for a wheelchair / helpers etc.

and send the e-mail to arsvi311@gmail.com (Dr. Katsunori Watanabe).
Our response to your e-mail saying we accept your registration means completion of your registration.

When you register via phone or fax, please let the administrative office of the Research Center for Ars Vivendi know the above 4 things.
TEL: +81-75-465-8475 FAX: +81-75-465-8245

Inquiries

Administrative Office, Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University
56-1 Tojiinkita-machi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577
E-mail: ars-vive@st.ritsumei.ac.jp
TEL: +81-75-465-8475
FAX: +81-75-465-8245

* There is no parking available at the venue, so please use public transportation.