International symposium on transmitting A-bomb experiences to future generations to be held on December 7 in Hiroshima
Oct. 24, 2013
Hiroshima City University, the Nagasaki University Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, and the Chugoku Shimbun will hold an international symposium entitled “Transmitting the Experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Future Generations” on December 7 at 1 p.m. at the International Conference Center Hiroshima in Naka Ward.
Sixty-eight years have passed since the atomic bombing. With the A-bomb survivors aging, how should their experiences be handed down to future generations? The symposium will feature panelists who are engaged in efforts to convey experiences of the past, including Jewish memories of the holocaust at Auschwitz, Poland, to help bring about a better world without war or nuclear arms.
Atsuko Hayakawa, a professor at Tsuda College whose career has been devoted to translating poems of the atomic bombings that Sayuri Yoshinaga has been reading at recitals for many years, will give a keynote speech titled “Memories for the Future: The New Horizon Explored through History.” Professor Hayakawa’s speech will be followed by reports from different parts of the world, given by Takeshi Nakatani, a Japanese-speaking guide at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum; Yves Kamuronsi, deputy director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; and Sophearum Chey, vice chief of the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia.
From the cities that suffered the atomic bombings, Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; Keiko Nakamura, an associate professor at the Nagasaki University Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition; Kazumi Mizumoto, vice president and professor of the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University; Akira Tashiro, executive director of the Hiroshima Peace Media Center; and teenage “junior writers” from the Chugoku Shimbun will explain their efforts to transmit the experiences of the A-bombings to future generations. Finally, Mr. Nakatani, Mr. Kamuronsi, Mr. Chey, and Professor Mizumoto will discuss ways to convey the experiences and the issues involved in this aim.
The symposium is free to the public and prior registration is not required. Interpretation service will be provided. For further information call the Hiroshima Peace Institute at 082-830-1811 (weekdays only).
(Originally published on October 22, 2013)
Sixty-eight years have passed since the atomic bombing. With the A-bomb survivors aging, how should their experiences be handed down to future generations? The symposium will feature panelists who are engaged in efforts to convey experiences of the past, including Jewish memories of the holocaust at Auschwitz, Poland, to help bring about a better world without war or nuclear arms.
Atsuko Hayakawa, a professor at Tsuda College whose career has been devoted to translating poems of the atomic bombings that Sayuri Yoshinaga has been reading at recitals for many years, will give a keynote speech titled “Memories for the Future: The New Horizon Explored through History.” Professor Hayakawa’s speech will be followed by reports from different parts of the world, given by Takeshi Nakatani, a Japanese-speaking guide at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum; Yves Kamuronsi, deputy director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; and Sophearum Chey, vice chief of the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia.
From the cities that suffered the atomic bombings, Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; Keiko Nakamura, an associate professor at the Nagasaki University Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition; Kazumi Mizumoto, vice president and professor of the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University; Akira Tashiro, executive director of the Hiroshima Peace Media Center; and teenage “junior writers” from the Chugoku Shimbun will explain their efforts to transmit the experiences of the A-bombings to future generations. Finally, Mr. Nakatani, Mr. Kamuronsi, Mr. Chey, and Professor Mizumoto will discuss ways to convey the experiences and the issues involved in this aim.
The symposium is free to the public and prior registration is not required. Interpretation service will be provided. For further information call the Hiroshima Peace Institute at 082-830-1811 (weekdays only).
(Originally published on October 22, 2013)
