Study day «Hiroshima» at the Memorial Friday 17 November 2017

As part of the "Tourism of disasters" project and on the occasion of the visit to Paris by the director of the Hiroshima museum, a study day on the Hiroshima disaster is organized at the Memorial on Friday, November 17, 2017.

The screening of the film «Lumières d'été» (2017) by Jean-Gabriel Periot is scheduled, in the presence of the director.

Programme

The study day will start at 2 PM in the auditorium of the Memorial.

Introduction by Annette Becker: «You saw nothing in Hiroshima, and especially not at the museum».

Michaël Lucken "Drawing and photography: two mediums for two memories of the atomic bombings".

Screening of two films on Hiroshima by Jean-Gabriel Périot, in his presence:

Short film: NIJUMAN NO BOREI (200000 ghosts) 2007, 10 minutes, Color and black & white, without dialogue. (Hiroshima, 1914-2006).

Feature: NATSU NO HIKARI (Summer Lights) 2017, 82 minutes, colors, Japanese with French subtitles.

Organization

Project "Tourism of the catastophes: sites of suffering, sites of memory" (Annette Becker and Charles Fordsick, University of Liverpool)

Ken Daimaru, PhD student at Paris-Nanterre

Journal Memoirs in Play

Inscriptions: hdefouca@parisnanterre.fr