At the next Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art, Naomichi Kawabata, the graphic designer, will come to give a lecture on “World War I & the Great Kanto Earthquake – Historical Relationship of Japan-Germany Posters”.  A summary of “Catastrophe & Art” will be carried out in the 7^th period.
Venue:  Tsukuba University, Bldg. 5C Rm. 416
Date & Time:  Dec. 13, Friday
6^th Period – 16:45~18:00  Lecturer:  Naomichi Kawabata,
7^th Period – 18:15～19:30　Summary (Toshiharu Omuka)
* The class extends over 2 periods.  Please come as anyone can take part. (Hashimoto)

At the next Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art, 2 lecturers will be invited.  The names of the lecturers and their lecture themes are as follows:
6^th Period: Eriko Kogo, Associate Professor, Waseda University, “Disasters & Picture Postcards”
7^th Period:  Shuji Tanaka, Associate Professor, Oita University, “Catastrophe & Monuments”

Venue: Tsukuba University, 5C416
Date & Time: Nov. 22, Friday.  6^th Period, 16:45-18:00, 7^th Period, 18:15-19:30
*The class extends over 2 periods.  Please come as anyone can take part.
(Hashimoto)

Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Oct. 25, Friday, Ryuichi Kaneko, a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has been invited to give a lecture on “Disasters & Photography”.
Ryuichi Kaneko is a photo historian, a collector of photography books, and a special researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since 1990. He has not only worked on projects at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, but has served as a curator for many exhibitions at other art museums as well. He has co-edited and co-authored, “日本近代写真の成立 (The Founding of Modern Japanese Photography)”, “定本 木村伊兵衛 (Original Text: Ihei Kimura)”, “植田正治私の写真作法 (Shoji Ueda: My Codes of Photography)”, “Independent Photographers In Japan 1976-83”, “The History of Japanese Photography”, and many others. He also supervised the series of reprints of the rare photography books from the pre-war period “日本写真史の至宝 (The Greatest Treasures in the History of Japanese Photography)”.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Room 5C416
Date & Time: Oct. 25, Friday, 16:45～18:00
Everyone is invited to attend.
(Hashimoto)

”Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art”, which started this fall, will invite extramural instructors from various disciplines to give lectures. 　Since anyone can attend these lectures, please come and participate.
Summary of the course (From the Syllabus): “When people experience a major catastrophe, they sometimes overcome their wounds through art. By referring to modern examples, a study into what sorts of expressions were effective will be discussed.”
For the class on Oct. 11 (Friday), Mayumi Sugawara, an art historian and Associate Professor at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design, will come to give a lecture on the theme, “Catastrophe in the Edo Period and Ukiyo-e”.
Venue: Tsukuba University Bldg. 5C Rm. 416
Date & Time: Oct. 11, Friday, 16:45~18:00.