Um verkið Okinawa eftir manga-listamanninn Higa Susumu

Japanska við Mála- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands býður upp á opinn hádegisfyrirlestur Noemi Lanna á Heimasvæði tungumálanna í Veröld, mánudaginn 21. október á Heimasvæði tungumála í Veröld (lessalur á 2. hæð). 

Titill fyrirlestursins er 'But I have to write it'. Higa Susumu’s Okinawa. Fyrirlesturinn og umræður verða á ensku. 

Um fyrirlesturinn

Moving from Higa Susumu’s Okinawa, the talk will explore the critical issues raised in this poignant and historically accurate manga: the Pacific War and its memory; the US military presence on the islands of the Ryūkyū archipelago after 1945; the difficult relationship between Okinawan civilians and US/Japanese soldiers; Okinawa’s cultural otherness; its natural beauty, prey to occupations and intensive exploitation for military purposes.

Um fyrirlesarann 

Noemi Lanna is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Japan and Japan in the international system at L’Orientale University (Naples). She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Hitotsubashi University) and a Ph.D. in Asian studies (L’Orientale University). She served as a postgraduate Monbukagakushō­-fellow at Hitotsubashi University (1998-2000), a “Visiting Ph.D. candidate” at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-4), adjunct professor for the postgraduate course “Expert in internationalization of enterprises with knowledge of Oriental Languages”, Italian Institute for International Commerce (2004-2011), Visiting professor of the KUPES Programme, Kobe University (2016), and visiting professor for the Erasmus staff mobility for teaching programme at Ruhr Universitat Bochum (2019). Her research interests focus on international history of Asia and on modern and contemporary history of Japan, with particular reference to postwar intellectual history.