- Public
- Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium
Symposium “Encounters with Death: The World Unveiled through Affective Fieldwork”
- Date
- 2025/11/16(Sun) 13:00-18:30
- Venue
- 303 : Large Conference Room, ILCAA
- On-site/Online
- On-Site
- Language
- Japanese
Events
Programs
| 2025/11/16 | ||
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Introductory remarks | Ryoko Nishii(ILCAA) |
| 13:10 - 14:10 | I. The Materiality of Death | |
| 13:10 - 13:30 | That body is flesh-and-blood: The ambivalence in handling of a corpse by funeral workers | Daisuke Tanaka(Jichi Medical University) |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | The Social Life of a Modern Death Mask: An Ethnography of Material Presence and the Ethics of Remembrance in Japan | Ryoko Takagi(Institute of Science Tokyo) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | A Virtual Funeral in the Hands of the Family | Daisuke Uriu(Shibaura Institute of Technology) |
| 14:10 - 14:20 | Break | |
| 14:20 - 15:20 | II. The Individual and Collectivity Surrounding Death | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Sublimating Death in Korean Mourning Palanquin Huts: Material and Collective Dimensions of Death | Kim Satbyul(Konan University) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | "Co-Creating and Passing Expressions with Those Lost in the Tsunami: Sharing the Experience Across Time and Space" | Tomoko Niwa(Professional Institute of International Fashion) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Death in the Democratization Movement: Social Media and Affect | Keiko Tosa(ILCAA) |
| 15:20 - 15:55 | Affect in Death and Music＋Musical performance | Minori Tai(Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| 15:55 - 16:10 | Break | |
| 16:10 - 17:10 | III. Death and Time: Spaces of Living with the Dead | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Why People Want to Die at Home？ ：Reconsidering Views on Life and Death | Mari Kagaya(Sophia University) |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | When Words Cease to Be Words: A Reflection on Inheriting Narratives and Living with the Dead | Maho Isono(Institute of Science Tokyo) |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | The Natural History of Grief：On the Universality of Grief and How to Recover from the Loss of a Partner | Suehisa Kuroda(The University of Shiga Prefecture) |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Comment | Miwako Tanaka(Higashinippon International University); Masakazu Tanaka(Professional Institute of International Fashion) |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Break | |
| 17:40 - 18:30 | Discussion and Q&A session Closing remarks | |
- Organized by
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the Anthropology of Death” 21H00642; Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Face-body design” 25H01232
Contact
- kaoshintai.aa[at]tufs.ac.jp