Epicenter Japan: Local Crises, Global Impacts

by Keiko P. 
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Panel Discussion at UW
Wednesday April 6, 2011. 7 PM
120 Kane Hall, Seattle Campus
 
UW faculty and scholars will have an open-to-public discussion on the multiple disasters now facing Japan. They assess the impacts to Japan as  well as the world since March 11 and look at what lies ahead. Panelists are:

Kenneth B. Pyle, Henry M. Jackson Professor of History and Asian Studies - Japan’s postwar history and nuclear context
Marie Anchordoguy, Professor of East Asian Studies - Business and Economics of Japan
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture – Japanese architecture and earthquakes
Andrea Arai, Lecturer - Japanese culture, media and demographics
Roger Raman, Principal Research Scientist Aeronautics and Astronautics - Nuclear Engineering
Gary Hamilton, UW Japan Program Interim Chair and Professor, International Studies and Sociology - Moderator

I wish I could go but I  will be out of town for a conference on 4/6. This event is sponsored by the UW Japan Studies Program and East Asia Center.
For more information, contact japan@uw.edu or (206) 685.9997.