International Conference“Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl:
Social and Cultural Dimensions of the Two Nuclear Catastrophes”
Place and time:
March 8 – 9, 2012
Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG Farben Building Room IG 311
Grüneburgplatz 1, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main
Information and registration:
izo@uni-frankfurt.deMarch 8, 2012
09.00 – 09.30 Registration with coffee and tea
09.30 – 10.00 Official opening, Introduction (Graf, Bohn)
10.00 – 13.00 Panel 1
Panel 1 “Cultural discourse and literary representations: Trauma narratives after thenuclear catastrophes”Chair: Lisette Gebhardt (Frankfurt) / Thomas Bohn (Giessen)
Steffi Richter (Leipzig)

Fukushima and Chernobyl – Two discourses, similar traumata

Tatiana Kasperski (Vilnius)

Chernobyl disaster in Belarusian national narratives: didanything change after Fukushima?

Masami Yuki (Kanazawa)

Language and imagination before and after Fukushima:
Japanese literary responses to nuclear catastrophe

Arata Takeda (Chicago)

Literary responses to nuclear disasters: Case studies on Christa
Wolf’s Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages (1987) and Daniel deRoulet’s Tu n’as rien vu à Fukushima (2011)
Presentation of Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters in Polishpress – two cultural narratives

Stanislaw Konopacki (Lodz)

11.30 – 11.45
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.30

Coffee break
Lunch
Panel 2

Panel 2 “Technological optimism, technological pessimism: Reactions and ethicalreflexions in regard to Fukushima and Chernobyl”
Chair: Thomas Daiber (Giessen) / Steffi Richter (Leipzig)
Yasuo Kobayashi (Tokyo)

Ethical Dimensions of “Fukushima“Raji C. Steineck (Zurich)Japanese ethics of technology and the catastrophe in NorthJapanAstrid Sahm (Minsk)

Some explanatory remarks for specific German reactions toChernobyl and Fukushima

15.30 – 16.00
16.00 – 17.30

Coffee break
Panel 3

2Panel 3 “Controversies about technology and sciences: Historical, political andideological trajectories in East Asia and Eastern Europe”
Chair: Melanie Arndt (Potsdam) / Raji C. Steineck (Zurich)Andrei Stsiapanau (Vilnius)

The Improvement of the technopolitical regime in Belarus:
Interplay of Chernobyl and Fukushima discourses

Thomas Feldhoff (Frankfurt)

From NIMBY to YIMBY: Understanding the nuclear facility
siting process in Japan

Michael Kinski (Frankfurt)

Adoption and adaptation of technologies in Japan from theperspective of intellectual history: Early constructs of the 19thcentury

Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt)

Popularization and the idea of omnipotence of the sciences in20th century China

March 9, 2012
09.00 - 11.00 Panel 4
Panel 4 “Regional fall-out: Nuclear catastrophe and cultural reactions in neighboringcountries”
Chair: Veronika Wendland (Jena) / Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt)
Thomas Daiber (Giessen)

Narrating nature and catastrophic experience in Poland

Aliaksandr Dalhouski (Giessen)

Politics and society after Chernobyl: Belarus in comparativeand entangled perspective

Arndt Graf (Frankfurt)

Fukushima and the Muslim anti-nuclear movement inIndonesia

Shogo Suzuki (Manchester)

Fukushima and the reaction of the Asian neighbors

Joanna Elfving-Hwang(Frankfurt)

Cultural discourses of environmental disasters in Korea

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 5
Panel 5 “Living with nuclear catastrophes: Coping strategies and future visions”
Chair: Astrid Sahm (Minsk) / Arata Takeda (Chicago)
Christian Oberländer (HalleWittenberg)

Fukushima and its political and social aftermath

Veronika Wendland (Jena)(Re-)Inventing the Atomograd. Nuclear as a way of life before
and after Chernobyl, 1970-2011

Melanie Arndt (Potsdam)

The missing trauma? The disappearance of Chernobyl in
Eastern Europe

13.00 – 13.30
13.30 – 14.30

Concluding remarks, open research questions and options for future collaboration
Lunch, end of conference

仲間
Nakama-Fonds – Hilfe für Japan