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Aftershocks: Experiences of Japan’s Great Earthquake opens today (1 September 2004) and continues until March 2015 at the University of Melbourne.
Details are as follows:
Noel Shaw Gallery, first floor, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
The exhibition is a free program and is open daily to members of the public during Library opening hours.
For further details see www.library.unimelb.edu.au/aftershocks
To accompany the exhibition we have arranged five lectures, as follows. A flyer with these details is attached.
Public lecture program
Exhibiting Disaster: The Great Kantō Earthquake
Collection at Melbourne University
Curator Floor Talk: Hannah Gould
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library
12.00pm–1.00pm
Join Aftershocks curator Hannah Gould as she explores the harrowing tale of the earthquake
and fires that destroyed Tokyo on 1 September 1923. Tracing the events of that tragic day, the
talk will uncover personal stories of survival behind the objects and address the challenges
faced by contemporary curators in telling these stories.
Catastrophe, Opportunism, and Humanitarianism:
The Chimerical Nature of Japan’s Great Kantō Earthquake
Public Lecture: Professor Charles Schencking
Thursday 11 September 2014
Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
tea/coffee from 11.30am, talk from 12.00pm–1.00pm
On 1 September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan. It killed over
100,000 people, left more than 2 million homeless, and annihilated large tracks of Tokyo and
Yokohama. As moral philosopher Shimamoto Ainosuke described it, the disaster overturned
Japan’s culture from its very foundation. More than destroy, however, the disaster eventually
inspired optimism and unleashed powerful forces of opportunism—it nurtured the belief that
the disaster and responses to it could lead to fundamental transformations of society, the built
environment, and even within the realm of international relations. Did it?
Charles Schencking, from the University of Hong Kong, will illuminate the catastrophe
through a rich array of visual and narrative material and explore the optimistic dreams and
contested realities associated with physical reconstruction, moral regeneration, and America’s
humanitarian response to Japan’s greatest natural disaster of the modern era.
Building Resilience: Children, Schools and the Origin
of Japan’s Disaster Preparedness
Public Lecture: Dr Janet Borland
Friday 12 September 2014
Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
tea/coffee from 11.30am, talk from 12.00pm–1.00pm
Dr Janet Borland from the University of Hong Kong will explore the experiences of children who
survived the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 and the long-term legacies of the earthquake on
Japan’s education system. Focusing on the reconstruction of Japan’s primary schools following
the earthquake in particular, Janet will also explore children’s experiences of the 2011 Japanese
earthquake and tsunami to put the 1923 earthquake in perspective.
Dear Ella: Japan’s Great Earthquake through Tokugawa
letters in the Grainger Museum
Public Lecture: Michelle Hall and Monica Syrette
Thursday 25 September 2014
Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
tea/coffee from 11.30am, talk from 12.00pm–1.00pm
In 1923 Iyemasa Tokugawa, the 17th hereditary head of the former Shogunal branch of the
Tokugawa clan, was the First Secretary Councillor of the Japanese Embassy in London. When
the earthquake struck in Tokyo he was working in Geneva and writing regularly to his mistress,
Ella Ström, a Swedish artist and exceptional beauty. Their love affair evolved into a close friendship
following her marriage to Percy Grainger in 1928. This presentation will examine Tokugawa’s
place in history and, through the letters, his personal response to the disaster at home.
The Great East Japan Earthquake: Effects on the People
of Japan
Public Lecture: Sue Daniels
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
tea/coffee from 4.30pm, talk from 5.00pm–6.00pm
In 2012 Sue Daniels was invited by the Red Cross to conduct a grief and loss workshop in the
Iwate prefecture – Morioka, headquarters of the Red Cross for the Great East Earthquake effort.
This presentation includes pictures taken before and after the Tsunami of 2011 of towns and
people, stories of resilience, and explores the effects of this catastrophe on the Japanese people
and psyche.
Sue Daniel is a psychodramatist and psychotherapist in private practice, a psychodrama trainer,
educator and consulting psychologist working and living in Melbourne. She teaches and lectures
in Australia and overseas in communities, universities and was the first foreign Visiting Professor
at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan.
For further information about the
exhibition and programs, see website:
library.unimelb.edu.au/aftershocks
Please RSVP for all talks/lectures for catering purposes to:
www.library.unimelb.edu.au/aftershocks