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本拠点の教育プログラムに担当授業をご提供くださっている佐藤治子特任教授（国際公共政策研究科）より、グローバル日本学に関連する講演会のご案内がありました。詳細は下記の通りです。

演　題：Symbolism and The Mushroom Cloud
講演者：Christopher P. Hood (Cardiff University, HoodCP (at) Cardiff.ac.uk) ※ (at) は @ に置き換えて下さい。

日　　時：2025年1月16日（木）15:10～16:50
会　　場：大阪大学豊中キャンパス国際公共政策研究科（OSIPP）棟３Ｆマルチメディア演習室
開催言語：英語
開催形式：ハイブリッド
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAucOioqz0sE9FaNgxi8AInCO57t9M1cCNp

問い合わせ先：国際公共政策研究科 佐藤治子（ hsatoh65 (at) osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp ） ※ (at) は @ に置き換えて下さい。

Abstract：
This talk will use the image of the mushroom cloud as a symbol to explore how its usage reveals how the director may have wanted us to interpret what we were seeing. The talk will begin with an introduction to studying symbols and why the speaker became interested in this type of research. The talk will then look at the way in which we can understand differing views on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by looking at the words and images used. The talk will then go on to analyse the way in which the image of the mushroom cloud has been used in dramatizations related to the bombings. From this, the talk will then cover other dramatizations that include images of the mushroom cloud and consider the implications of how the mushroom cloud is shown. The paper will conclude by pointing to, at a time of rising tensions around the world, how images of the mushroom cloud are used has significance in relation to people’s understanding about the dangers of nuclear warfare.

Biography：

Homepage: http://tiny.cc/HoodCP
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Christopher Hood is a Reader in Japanese Studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of the books, Japan: The Basics, Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss in the World’s Largest Single Plane Crash, Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, and Education Reform in Japan: Nakasone’s Legacy. He is the author of articles and chapters including ‘Depicting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: History and Continued Significance’, ‘Japan Says “Western Pop”?: No Thanks, Don’t Do It’, ‘Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters’, ‘Japanese Disaster Narratives of the Early Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change’, ‘Contents Tourism in Plane Sight’, ‘Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?’, and ‘Developing a Model to Explain Modifications to Public Transportation Accident Memorials’.
Between 2016 and 2022 he was the President of the British Association for Japanese Studies. In 2016 he received a Certificate of Commendation from the Ambassador of Japan in the UK in recognition of distinguished service to contributing to the deepening of mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and UK.
He is also the author of the novels Hijacking Japan, Tokyo 20/20 Vision, and FOUR.