What: A Campus-Community Response to the Crisis in Japan: A Teach-In and Benefit Event
When: Wednesday, March 30, 7:00-8:30pm
Where: Whittenberger Auditorium, IMU
As part of a campus- and community-wide relief effort, we will hold a teach-in on Wednesday, March 30, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. The event will feature faculty experts, students from the regions affected, and musicians from the Jacobs School of Music. Representatives from various organizations will report on their fundraising efforts.
See the program below and additional details here. For more information, email the Asian Culture Center at acc@indiana.edu.
Emcee: Michiko Suzuki, Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Welcoming remarks by Matthew Auer, Dean, Hutton Honors College; Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
“Geological Setting of the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku, Japan Earthquake” by Gary L. Pavlis, Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences
“The Disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant” by Chuck Horowitz, Professor, Dept. of Physics
String Quartet in E Minor Op. 44, No. 2, 2nd and 3rd movements, by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by Kuttner Quartet (Colin Sorgi and Rena Kimura, violin; Rose Wollman, viola; Kevin Künkel, cello), Jacobs School of Music
“Japanese and World Media Reactions” by Joe Coleman, Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence, School of Journalism
“The Effect on Trust in Government” by Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, Depts. of Political Science and East Asian Languages and
Cultures; Interim Director, East Asian Studies Center
“Tōhoku: Its Fishing Towns, Coastal Geography, and Tsunamis” by Shingo Hamada, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology Dept.
“Current Living Conditions in Sendai” by Mikela Asano, Master of Music student, Jacobs School of Music
“Giving and Volunteering: Lessons from the Japan Quake” by Beth Gazley, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Question & answer period
Announcements of fundraising efforts
Concluding remarks
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