Event: Japan’s Triple Disaster: Understanding and Responding
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: Noon – 1:30 p.m. PST
Location: Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?496
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Media are invited to attend a forum where experts, students and the UBC community will discuss Japan’s “triple disaster” of earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear crisis.
Panelists will include:
- Prof. Paul Evans, Director of UBC’s Institute for Asian Research (moderator)
- Hon. Prof. Joseph Caron, Canada’s former Ambassador to Japan
- Prof. David Edgington, Japanese geography expert and author of a recent book on Kobe’s 1995 earthquake
- Dr. Anne Trudel, a nuclear safety expert at TRIUMF
- Prof. Jessica Main, Director of UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program
- Justin Elavathil, a Master of Asia Pacific Policy Studies student recently returned from four years teaching in central Japan
“The event will be an opportunity to pay respect to those whose lives have been irrevocably altered and to assess the magnitude and implications of the disaster,” says Evans. “We will also explore constructive ways that the university community can respond. No university in North America has closer connections to Japan than UBC.”
The event will be webcast live at: http://mediasite.mediagroup.ubc.ca/MediaGroup/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=6ea2edd294a64dcea6757c64134cf0e31d
[Web Editors: To embed the webcast on your website, contact heather.amos@ubc.ca or 604.822.3213 for instructions.]
Watch videos of Edgington analyzing the effects of Japan’s recent earthquake: http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca
Find more UBC earthquake experts: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/03/11/ubc-earthquake-experts/
More event information: http://www.calendar.events.ubc.ca:80/s/rr
The event is organized by UBC’s Institute of Asian Research in cooperation with the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Centre for International Relations.
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