Ryo Morimoto, "Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone in 2023"

Date and Time

October 16, 2023
12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT

Location

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

Seminar poster with tree, headshots of speaker and moderator, and event details

Ryo Morimoto
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Harvard University Center for the Environment; and the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network.

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Additional Resources
 

  1. Ryo Morimoto, Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone. University of California Press, April 2023.
  2. Ryo Morimoto, "Home Otherwise: Living Archives and Half-Life Politics in Post-Fallout Coastal Fukushima." Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 36, Issue 4, pp. 573-579. 2021.
  3. Commentary | Ryo Morimoto, Ethnographic Lettering: "Pursed Lips: A Call to Suspend Damage in the Age of Decommissioning." Critical Asian Studies (CAS), March 22, 2021.