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International Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive FY 2013: "Community memories for the future"

This page is for information about the Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive held on Saturday, January 11, 2014.

This symposium has already concluded. However, videos, speaker materials, and photos from this symposium can be accessed from this page. Past symposium pages can be viewed on the Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive page.

Purpose of the event

The National Diet Library and International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University are pleased to announce a symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive and how to apply the records of and lessons learned from the disaster to reconstruction of the affected area.

The symposium will feature lectures on "2011 year eastern Japan great earthquake digital archive" and "CEISMIC Canterbury earthquake digital archive" followed by case reports and discussion with people from the institutions and organizations involved in application of the records of the disaster.

On Thursday, January 9, the NDL will sponsor a "Seminar about the archives of earthquake disaster: From experiences of New Zealand Canterbury Earthquake and Great East Japan Earthquake" (Japanese) at the Auditorium, Annex, Tokyo Main Library, National Diet Library. Professor Paul Millar will lecture. NDL will broadcast live coverage of the lecture at the Tokyo Main Library to Seminar Room 1, Kansai-kan, National Diet Library.

Event overview

Date and time

January 11, 2014 (Sat.), 13:00-17:30 (Doors open at 12:30)


Venue

Tohoku University Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, CENTER HALL, CenterSquare, School of Engineering, Aobayama Campus Traffic access


Capacity

300 seats


Admission fee

Free of charge


How to apply

Application was closed.


For enquiries

Ms. Ono, Mr. Sato, Mr. Shibayama

D Disaster Digital Archive, Disaster Information Management and Public Collaboration Division, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

E-mail: archiveforum@irides.tohoku.ac.jp

Tel: 022-795-4842

Program

Lecture

Plans and Prospects for a Participatory Digital Archive

Professor Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University/ The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters (The JDArchive)) Project Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)

Why Archive Catastrophe?: The Importance of Preserving and Making Freely Available the Digital Record of a Natural Disaster

Professor Paul Millar (Head of the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Canterbury/ Programme Director of CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive)

Report

Case Reports

A Study on Chuetsu Earthquake Memorial Corridor

Mr. Fumihiro Inagaki (Director of Revival Design Center at Chuetsu Organization for Safe and Secure Society)

Record of the efforts of restoration and reconstruction by its members and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Cooperatives

Mr. Nobuo Okayama (Representative Senior Managing Director of Norinchukin Research Institute Co., Ltd.)

Efforts of the "3.11 Archives Miyagi Meeting

Ms. Kuniko Sakata (Senior Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)

Efforts for "Collection of the Great east Japan earthquake" of Miyagi Prefectural Library

Mr. Makoto Tanaka (Administrative Staff, "Collection of the Great east Japan earthquake" Organize Team, Miyagi Prefectural Library)


Discussion

Community memories for the future

  • Coordinator

Professor Fumihiko Imamura (International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University)

  • Panelists

Mr. Fumihiro Inagaki (Director of Revival Design Center at Chuetsu Organization for Safe and Secure Society)

Mr. Nobuo Okayama (President, Executive Managing Director of Norinchukin Research Institute Co., Ltd.)

Mr. Kosuke Kawamura (Senior Engineer Disaster Prevention and Regional Support Division, Mie Prefectural Government)

Ms. Kuniko Sakata (Senior Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)

Mr. Makoto Tanaka (Administrative Staff, "Collection of the Great east Japan earthquake" Organize Team, Miyagi Prefectural Library)

Mr. Hiroshi Mizutani (Head of Toyoma Elementary School of Iwaki-shi, Fukushima Prefecture)

Mr. Tamotsu Matsumoto (Senior Librarian of Digital Information Department at National Diet Library)

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