The Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity” presents two afternoons of panel papers and discussion around the theme of 3.11 Memorialization-pdf

This workshop asks how have we recorded, documented and, in more general terms, represented the events of March 11, 2011 - not only as personal, individual, and distinctive moments, but as collective, shared, public, and even national memories. In what ways do these recollections represent trauma and loss, solace and survival, if they are used in this manner at all? Where are they positioned as narratives of heroic struggle and where do they reveal more venal irresponsibility? What are the histo