Cities of Peace: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

January 19, 2010 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)

“Double Exposure: Tsutomu Yamaguchi and the Luck of War Reflections of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

Christopher Jespersen, Dean School of Arts and Letters (North Georgia State College and University) Social Science 1019 *12:30*

Dr. Jespersen is Dean of the School of Arts and Letters. He also teaches in the History Department. Dr. Jespersen received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1991. He taught at the University of Arizona and Clark Atlanta University before joining North Georgia in 2001. He is the author of American Images of China, 1931-1949, co-editor of Architects of the American Century: Individuals, Ideas, and Institutions in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy, and editor of Interviews with George F. Kennan, in addition to numerous articles. He has been a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar (twice) and the East-West Center. In 2000, he received a Meritorious Service Award from the United Negro College Fund.

January 19, 2010 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)

A Reading--

"A Day, Just Like Any Other Day: On a Birthday 75 Years Later" David Jones, Atlanta Center for Asian Studies Social Science 1019 *6:00 P.M.*

Dr. Jones is professor of philosophy, editor of Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Equinox) and East-West Connections, director of the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies, and has been visiting professor of Confucian Classics at Emory. His current books include The Fractal Self and the Evolution of God with John L. Culliney and Zhu Xi Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Great Ultimate (State University of New York Press), edited with He Jinli. He is co-editor of Asian Texts -AsianContexts: Encountering the Philosophies and Religions of Asia (State University of New York Press, 2009) and editor of Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects (Open Court, 2008), Buddha Nature and Animality (Jain, 2007), and The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Thought. A past president of the Southeast Regional of the Association of Asian Studies and present president of the Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle, he was the East-West Center's Distinguished Alumnus in 2004-2005.

January 21, 2010

"Current Nuclear Issues" (1000 Cranes Teleconference with Hibakusha) Steven Leeper, Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Ms. Miyoko Watanabe, Hibakusha. Ms. Watanabe was 15 years old and a third year student at a girls school at the time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was exposed to the bomb when she stepped outside of her house located 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles) from the ground zero. Social Science 1019 *7:00 P.M.*