International workshop:
Our Dealings with the Invisible: on the Air as a Form of Commons

This is an international workshop co-organized by UTCP and EAA in cooperation with KOIAS (Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies). The workshop is structured by four presentations and a general discussion in English and Japanese with a focus on one's different attitudes and dealings with something invisible, aeric and atmopsheric in the society and the environment.
The term “kūki” (air) in contemporary Japanese can refer to various dimensions of our daily experiences from the air we inhale and exhale, to intersubjective and nonverbal experiences such as “something in the air”. This workshop aims to open a wide ranged discussion on our attitudes to something invisible and atmospheric led by younger academic specialists in anthropology, semiotics, literature and philosophy especially in aesthetics, ethics and phenomenology.

Date: Sunday, July 21st 2024 13:00-17:30
Place: EAA Seminar Room (11), 1st floor, Bldg. 101, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
Language: English and Japanese

Program:
13:00-13:15 Opening: Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP)
13:15-14:00 Mathieu Gaulène (U-Nîmes)
"How to read the air when it becomes radioactive : A semiotic approach to capturing the atmosphere of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident"
14:00-14:45 Lorenzo Marinucci (U-Tōhoku)
"Scent and the Breathing Commons"
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Satomi Abe (安倍里美) (U-Kobe)
「雰囲気に流される人は真摯な道徳判断を下していないのか」
("Are Those Who are Swayed by the Atmosphere Failing to Make Sincere Moral Judgments?")
15:45-16:30 Yuho Hisayama (久山雄甫) (U-Kobe)
"First neo-phenomenological steps to understanding kūki"
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:30 General discussion

Registration: https://forms.gle/qkaTWnSBsAZHyoFT7

Charge of planning: Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP)
Organization: The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP)
Co-organization: East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, U-Tokyo (EAA)
Cooperation: Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS)

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