Japan One Year Later: How Can We Bring Closure to Crisis?

This coming weekend, at Cornell, we will be holding a very special conference. The conference marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan. The title of the conference, which will bring together economists, lawyers,
anthropologists, policymakers, literary theorists, and many others from Japan, the US and Europe, is “How can we bring closure to crisis?”  The program is here: http://meridian-180.org/3-11-2012_symposium_schedule

As many of you know, the events on and since March 11, 2011 have had quite a profound impact on me personally and professionally. It’s no exaggeration to say that my own vision of my scholarly and professional mission, and even of what is important in life, has been transformed by the events of the year ago. This conference will offer a chance to reflect on the enduring policy questions but also the more personal aspects of all of this, and also to consider what we had his academics and professionals can do to address the continuing political, economic, environmental crises of the moment. If you are in the Ithaca area and have an interest in attending part or all the program, please let me know. You would be more than welcome.