BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What does it mean to remember Fukushima in the UK today? COVID\, C limate Change\, and Ukraine. - Brigitte Steger (University of Cambridge) DTSTART:20230302T180000Z DTEND:20230302T190000Z UID:TALK197605@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Prerona Prasad DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion to mark the exhibition Picturing the Invis ible at The Heong Gallery.\n\nYoi Kawakubo (photographer) buries silver halide film in the contaminated soils of Fukushima’s exclusion zone to produce a powerful series of abstracts\, titled If the radiance of a thou sand suns were to burst in the skies at once. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Tokyo\; the Ashmolean Museum\, Oxford\; and the National Art Centre\, Tokyo. Among other accol ades\, Yoi won the 2015 Ohara Museum of Art Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Shiseido Art Egg Prize and the 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize (H ong Kong). \n\nGiles Price (photographer) uses thermal technology to re nder eerie everyday scenes in Namie and Iitate\, two towns heavily exposed to the effects of the nuclear disaster. In so doing\, his Restricted Res idence series evokes the ghostly presence of radiation\, which has deterr ed so many residents from returning to their homes\, even now many evacuat ion orders have been lifted. Price’s work has been exhibited at The Phot ographers Gallery\, London\; National Portrait Gallery\, London\; Imperial War Museum\, London\; as well as numerous international venues. He is a contributor to various publications including The New York Times Magazine \, FT Weekend Magazine\, Guardian Weekend Magazine\, Telegraph Magazine\, and Bloomberg Markets. \n\nDr Brigitte Steger (Senior Lecturer in Mode rn Japanese Studies\, University of Cambridge and co-editor 'Japan Copes w ith Calamity) is one of the essayists involved in Picturing the Invisible. The tsunami disasters of March 2011 prompted her to travel to northeaster n Japan\, where she was the only researcher to live alongside survivors in a shelter. She observed that problems with cleanliness became a symbol of shared suffering in the shelters\, and that survivors tried to regain a s ense of normality by organising household routines according to deeply roo ted social structures. \n\nDr Makoto Takahashi (Fulbright-Lloyd's Fello w\, Program on STS\, Harvard University and curator of Picturing the Invis ible)has worked on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster for 10 years. He receive d his BA\, MPhil\, and PhD from Cambridge University and was previously a visiting fellow at Waseda and a Lecturer at TU Munich. His thesis examined how claims to expert authority have been made in conditions of low public trust and received the American Association of Geographers’ Jacques May Thesis Prize. Picturing the Invisible has been exhibited at the Royal Geo graphical Society\, London and TU Munich. \n\nLeigh Turner (British Amb assador to Ukraine 2008-12) is a former British diplomat and civil servant with over forty years of experience. He was joint head of the Foreign Off ice Crisis Unit set up in 2014 to respond to the Russian occupation of Cri mea and Eastern Ukraine. Turner's book A Hitchhiker's Guide to Diplomacy i s due to be published in Spring 2013 and explores 'the background to the c onflict: what the world did wrong\, what it did right\, and what Vladimir Putin does not understand'. \n\nPICTURING THE INVISIBLE\n\n23 February to 23 April 2023. Wednesday to Sunday 12-5. Free Admission\n\nHow does one photograph radiation? Trauma? Or the resilience of communities forced to contend with both? Picturing the Invisible brings together seven celebrate d photographers to examine the lasting legacy of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake\, tsunami\, and nuclear disaster. \n\nDeclared the ‘worst cr isis Japan has faced since World War II’ by Prime Minister Naoto Kan\, t he earthquake and tsunami killed more than 15\,000 people and triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant – forcing 200\,000 people from their homes. This exhibition captures how\, even tod ay\, vast swathes of land remain uninhabitable: the contamination of plant s and soil made visible to visitors through technical means. However\, it also explores how efforts to decontaminate the region continue. The exclus ion zone is slowly shrinking and as evacuation orders are lifted\, residen ts are being incentivised to return home. Few choose to do so – and many of those who do are old. One village found that only a third of its resi dents chose to return and more than 70% of them are over the age of 65. Th ose who do return discover that few wish to buy food ‘made in Fukushima ’\, posing an additional challenge for traditionally agricultural commu nities. This exhibition provides an intimate portrait of the peoples rebui lding their lives in the affected territories. It examines their memories of disaster\, their continued contact with radiation\, and their efforts t o reclaim their heritage. \n\nThe photographs are complimented by a series of short essays\, provided by policymakers\, experts\, and activists unit ed in their deep engagement with the “triple disaster” and nuclear iss ues. Contributors include: Sir David Warren (British Ambassador to Japan\ , 2008–12)\; Science and Technology Studies pioneers\, Sheila Jasanoff ( Harvard) and Brian Wynne (Lancaster)\; Japanologists\, Richard Samuels (M IT) and Brigitte Steger (Cambridge)\; ICRP Vice-Chair Jacques Lochard\; be st selling author\, Robert Macfarlane (Cambridge)\; and famed environmenta list\, Aileen Mioko Smith (Director\, Green Action and co-author of “Min amata: A warning to the world”).\n\nAccess statement:\n\nThe Howard Thea tre is accessible via a lift (1st floor)\, and wheelchair-accessible toile t facilities are also available via a lift (Basement Level). In the theatr e\, there is padded seating\, designated spaces for wheelchair users\, and sufficient space for an assistance dog. There is a hearing loop facility available by request IN ADVANCE. Lighting levels will be low during the ev ent. You are free to arrive\, leave\, stand up\, lie down\, or take a brea k at any time\, without giving a reason. LOCATION: The Howard Theatre\, Downing College END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR