BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12651-0e5d36c795bb2d6b13732c9348a97956@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260307T151656Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T173000 SUMMARY:Asian Studies Lecture Series: Rachel DiNitto DESCRIPTION:\nHow are nuclear disasters depicted on screen? Is cinema th e best means to communicate nuclear harm? How do these visual representa tions relate to real world nuclear politics? This lecture takes up these questions in relation to The Days (2023)\, the Netflix series about the scramble to control the spiraling crisis following the total loss of po wer at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. Film and televisual depictions of nuclear environmental disaster often turn into thrillers that focus more on heroism and high drama than on th e realities of the nuclear threat. The nuclear accident film presents sp ecial challenges because the harm is both local and global\, immediate a nd long lasting. This lecture addresses the epistemological scalar chall enges of nuclear conceptualization and the relations to both real world accidents and anti-nuclear activism in Asia.\n\nRachel DiNitto is profes sor of Japanese literature at the University of Oregon\, working in the environmental humanities with an emphasis on nuclear issues. Her book Fu kushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster (Univ ersity of Hawaii Press 2019) won the Choice Magazine Outstanding Academi c Title in 2020.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/as ia-lecture-series-rachel-dinitto/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

How are nuclear disasters depicted on screen? Is cinema the best means to communicate n uclear harm? How do these visual representations relate to real world nu clear politics? This lecture takes up these questions in relation to  The Days (2023), the Netflix series about the scramble to control the spiraling crisis following the total loss of power at the Japanese F ukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. Film and televisual depictions of nuclear environmental disaster often turn into thrillers t hat focus more on heroism and high drama than on the realities of the nu clear threat. The nuclear accident film presents special challenges beca use the harm is both local and global, immediate and long lasting. This lecture addresses the epistemological scalar challenges of nuclear conce ptualization and the relations to both real world accidents and anti-nuc lear activism in Asia.

Rachel DiNitto is professor of Japanese lit erature at the University of Oregon, working in the environmental humani ties with an emphasis on nuclear issues. Her book Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster (University of H awaii Press 2019) won the Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2020.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/asia -lecture-series-rachel-dinitto/

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