NYHET Under oktober gästas Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier av Masami Yuki, professor i engelska vid Kanazawa University, Japan. Hon presenterar sin forskning under titeln “Meals in Catastrophe: Emerging Tropes in Foodscapes of the Nuclear Age" vid ett seminarium den 14 oktober.
Masami Yuki är professor i engelska vid Kanazawa University i Japan och forskar inom det gröna humaniora-området, bland annat inom miljölitteratur och ekokritik. Professor Yuki gästar Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier samt Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment. Under sin vistelse vid Umeå universitet kommer professor Yuki att presentera sin forskning vid högre seminariet i idéhistoria och vetenskaps-, teknik- och miljöstudier tisdag den 14 oktober. Seminariet har titeln "Meals in Catastrophe: Emerging Tropes in Foodscapes of the Nuclear Age"
14 oktober 2014
Meals in Catastrophe: Emerging Tropes in Foodscapes of the Nuclear Age
Tid & plats: 13.15 - 15.00, Humanisthuset, D108“Even before the nuclear accidents of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and most recently Fukushima, issues of radioactive contamination have had a continual impact on literature. For instance, modern prototypical environmental literary works such as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) and Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow (1969) refer to nuclear and radioactive problems, albeit obscurely. This paper examines not only the recent literary responses to nuclear accidents, as found in such works as Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl (2005), Kawakami Hiromi’s God Bless You, 2011 (2011), Ikezawa Natsuki’s Soto no fune (2013), as well as documentary films including Nuclear Nation (2012) directed by Funahashi Atsushi, but also classic works perhaps more indicative of the industrial age such as Ishimure’s Paradise, in order to explore changing or unchanging tendencies in literary representations of human interactions with the environment in the nuclear age. In my examination, I will particularly focus on descriptions of food and eating because food frames and is framed by individual and societal values of life.”
Arrangör: Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier och Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment
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Finn Arne Jørgensen, docent i teknik- och miljöhistoriaInstitutionen för Idé- och samhällsstudierUmeå universitet
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