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This online event is hosted by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. To register for the event, please visit this page<\/a>. This event is part of the Japanese Studies series<\/a> organised in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) and The Courtauld Institute of Art.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Recent disasters are often remembered as moments of sudden and total destruction\u2014cities buried, societies erased, and lives swept away in an instant. Yet a longer view of human history reveals more complex stories, in which survival, adaptation, and recovery play central roles. How have people lived with repeated disasters over long periods of time? Did catastrophes bring only ruin, or did they also foster new forms of creativity, culture, and community?<\/p>\n This public lecture explores these questions through archaeology and history, using the Japanese archipelago as a long-term case study. Drawing on ongoing collaborative research within the Nordic\u2013Japan research programme CALDERA, it examines how societies have responded to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis across deep time. Marking the 15th anniversary of the 2011 T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami, the lecture focuses on three case studies: Mount Fuji and its long history of human engagement with volcanic risk; the Kikai-Akahoya super-eruption 7,300 years ago, which reshaped regional networks rather than causing total societal collapse; and the 2011 disaster, which prompted both profound loss and remarkable efforts at community rebuilding.<\/p>\n By placing these cases in comparative perspective, the lecture invites a broad audience to reflect on disasters not only as moments of tragedy, but also as forces that can reshape social networks, cultural practices, and future possibilities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Junzo Uchiyama\u00a0was a former Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow at SISJAC from 2018 to 2020. He is Affiliated Researcher of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at Kanazawa University, Japan. Together with colleagues in Nordic countries and Japan, he launched a new research programme called \u201cCALDERA<\/a>\u201d for \u201ccatastrophe archaeology\u201d in 2021, aiming to investigate long-term cultural responses to major natural disasters and to understand processes of survival, adjustment and eventual recovery. In June 2024 he was awarded the Ben Cullen Prize for \u201coutstanding contributions\u201d to World Archaeology. In November 2024, the project \u201cSurviving the Apocalypse: multidimensional modelling of the impact of a prehistoric megadisaster on people\u2019s lifeworlds, technologies and demography\u201d was approved and got funded by Swedish Research Council (VR), in which he is working as a co-project leader with Professor Peter D. Jordan at Lund University.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Image:\u00a0Sanriku coast (Minamisanriku Town, NE Honshu) taken two months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, where the harbour was destroyed and parts of the land subsided below sea level as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. 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Kitazawa is unique in the noh world in making new masks for innovative and experimental noh pieces, including English-language noh, as well as producing classical noh and kyogen (nohgaku) masks. He will demonstrate the different stages of carving, offering a rare opportunity to understand how iconic noh masks are made for both traditional and contemporary noh.<\/p>\nAbout the Talk<\/strong><\/h3>\n
About the Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n