Pre–event 1 (Collaboration with Berlin Science Week) :
Learning from disasters for a resilient society: Experiences from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and COVID–19 pandemic
Information
A Public Lecture event in Berlin Science Week 2020: Learning from disasters for a resilient society: Experiences from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and COVID–19 pandemic.
Date
November 2, 2020 10:00–11:30 (CEST) / 18:00–19:30 (JST)
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Link
Speakers
Verena Blechinger–Talcott (Vice President, International Affairs, Free University of Berlin)
Shinichi Egawa (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
Julia Gerster (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
Daniel F. Lorenz (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin)
Martin Voss (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin)
Registration
– Closed
Video [Dec. 01, 2020 Updated]
Time Schedule
- Moderator: Elizabeth Maly (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
- 10:00 – 10:05 (CEST)
18:00 – 18:05 (JST) - Welcome Message
- Fumihiko Imamura (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
- 10:05 – 10:20 (CEST)
18:05 – 18:20 (JST) - Shinichi Egawa (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
- Healthy society is resilient against disaster
- 10:20 – 10:35 (CEST)
18:20 – 18:35 (JST) - Verena Blechinger-Talcott (Free University of Berlin)
- Building resilient international networks
- 10:35 – 10:50 (CEST)
18:35 – 18:50 (JST) - Julia Gerster (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
- School Memorials and disaster risk education after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
- 10:50 – 11:05 (CEST)
18:50 – 19:05 (JST) - Daniel F. Lorenz (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin)
Martin Voss (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin) - The variety of resilient societies
- 11:05 – 11:25 (CEST)
19:05 – 19:25 (JST) - Discussion
- Sebastien Boret (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
- 11:25 – 11:30 (CEST)
19:25 – 19:30 (JST) - Closing Remarks
- Anawat Suppasri (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
About Speakers
Shinichi Egawa (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
Professor of International Cooperation for Disaster Medicine, IRIDeS since 2012. Prof. Egawa is a medical doctor, surgeon specialized in pancreas. He served as the headquarter of Tohoku University Hospital at the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Research specialty in disaster medicine, medical needs and effective response after disaster.
Verena Blechinger–Talcott (Vice President International Affairs, Free University of Berlin)
Verena Blechinger-Talcott is Vice President of International Affairs, Professor of Japanese politics and political economy at Free University Berlin, Germany. From 2012 until 2020, she also was the founding Director of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies which was funded by the German Federal Government's Excellence Initiative. Her research interests include Japanese politics in comparative perspective, institutional change in Japanese politics, and government-business relations in both domestic politics and international relations. Building resilient and sustainable international networks is one of her core responsibilities not only as Vice President of International Affairs during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic but also through her various international engagements during other times of crisis, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Julia Gerster (IRIDeS, Tohoku University)
Julia Gerster received a Ph.D. in Japanese Studies with a disciplinary focus in Cultural Anthropology at Free University of Berlin. Since 2019, she works as Assistant Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University. Her main research interests include the dynamics of social relations after disasters, recovery processes, the handling of negative heritage as well as identity and community building.
Daniel F. Lorenz (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin)
Daniel F. Lorenz is a social scientist and senior researcher at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has conducted empirical research, for instance, in Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Portugal and Greece. His research interests include various social science issues in the context of disasters and humanitarian emergencies such as social vulnerability and resilience.
Martin Voss (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, DRU, Free University of Berlin)
Martin Voss is an inter and transdisciplinary working sociologist, university professor for social scientific disaster research, the head of the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and CEO of the non-profit company "Academy of the Disaster Research Unit (ADRU)". His areas of specialization encompass the whole disaster management cycle, beginning with the perception of existential risks and ending with sustainable practices to secure wellbeing.
Contact
Email: bsw*grp.tohoku.ac.jp (change * to @)
Organizers
International Affairs, Free University Berlin
· Verena Blechinger–Talcott
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Disaster Research Unit, Free University Berlin
· Martin Voss
· Daniel F. Lorenz
Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University
· Yoshiaki Maeda
· I–Ching Chen
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
· Fumihiko Imamura
· Shinichi Egawa
· Yo Fukushima
· Anawat Suppasri
· Elizabeth Maly
· Sebastien Boret
· Julia Gerster
