East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Christopher T. Nelson
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.
BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Score a FREE copy of Christopher T. Nelson’s book!
The first (5) University of Chicago students (currently enrolled) who register to attend the event will receive their very own copy, compliments of the Center for East Asian Studies! Registrant MUST register using their full name AND UChicago email address and check in on the day of the event. Registrant will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to retrieve their book from CEAS.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson considers the ways ordinary Okinawans, haunted by memories of the past, have struggled to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. Through the lens of his own US Marine training and ethnographic research completed over twenty-five years in the region, Nelson asks about sacrifice and residual trauma from events intended to preserve the imperial institution and Japanese state. Nelson's focus on Okinawa, a site of mass atrocities, and its inhabitants, demonstrates how memories of past sacrifices and exploitation connect with modern, everyday lives. Interrogating the intersection of past and present temporalities and future possibilities, Nelson amplifies the voices of people-living and dead, visible and immaterial-entangled in webs of power beyond their control.
To learn more about the book, click here:
https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781478031963
Lunch will be provided to those who register and attend the event.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher T. Nelson is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After serving as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, Nelson left to earn a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. His research interests include the relationship between history and memory; the critical study of everyday life; storytelling, ritual and performance; and value, exchange and sacrifice. He has been conducting fieldwork in Okinawa for thirty years and is the author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa and When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Okinawa, both from Duke University Press. Nelson is a former editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology and an advocate for open access publishing.
ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Thomas Lamarre is a professor of media studies and Japan studies at the University of Chicago. His current research builds media studies and environmental humanities. Half Life: Radiation and Animation rethinks the agency of radioactivity in the era of ongoing global nuclear disasters. Green Heresies: Critical Ecology and Plant Studies engages with ecological approaches to intelligence emerging across AI research and plant sciences. Digital Animalities explores the digital mediation of animal life in context of climate breakdown.
EAST ASIA BY THE BOOK! CEAS AUTHOR TALKS SERIES
The East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series showcases CEAS faculty, alumni, and special guests who provide author talks and book launches as a way to engage the broader community in conversations regarding key scholarship on East Asia. This series features a presentation by the author(s) that is often facilitated through conversation with a discussant, following by a question and answer session with the audience. For more information on the series, follow the link here: https://ceas.uchicago.edu/events/east-asia-the-book-ceas-author-talks
SPONSORSHIP
This event is presented in partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY
Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.
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