Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)

October 19, 2018

Conference Information and Registration: https://morningside.edu/mcaa
Contact [email protected] if you have questions.

Nuclear Asia: Prospects for Peace

Saturday, October 20, 2018
Metropolitan State University, St. Paul Campus
Room 101 and Lounge, Student Center
An Outreach Event held in conjunction with the MCAA
Free and Open to the Public

North Korea’s nuclear negotiations make the headlines regularly. However, North Korea is not the only country that poses a nuclearthreat in Asia. The MCAA 2018 outreach program plans a public engagement event, a film and panel discussion program on the past, present, and future of nuclear weapons and technology in Asia. The event will take place in conjunction with the MCAA 2018 at Metropolitan State University. After showing recent documentaries, panelists – composed of scholars and civic organization leaders -- will present on North Korea, China, India, Pakistan, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and peace education, and have an open discussion with the audience. A reception will follow in orderto provide a space for community citizens, students, educators, and scholars to meet and continue discussion.


2:00-3:30 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion (Film directors will be present.)

  • Professor Christine Marran (University of Minnesota), moderator
  • Human Error (2018, 50 min), by Yoh Kawano on Namie, a small town near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor
  • Under the Mushroom Clouds (work in progress, preview, 3 min), by Kyle Whitney on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

3:30-5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

  • Professor Jim Scheibel (Hamline University), former Mayor of Saint Paul, moderator
  • Professor Hangtae Cho (University of Minnesota) on North Korea
  • Professor Seunjoo Yoon (Carleton College) on China
  • Professor Amna Khalid (Carleton College) on India andPakistan
  • JoAnn Blatchley (St. Paul-Nagasaki Sister City Committee) on peaceactivism
  • Caren Stelson (World Citizen, and author of Sachiko) on peace education

5:30-6:30 p.m. Reception

Co-sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Council on Conferences, the Department of Asian
Languages and Literatures (University of Minnesota), the Center for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota), the Environmental Humanities Initiative (University of Minnesota), the Human Rights Program (University of Minnesota) and the History Department (Metropolitan State University).

Special thanks to Sherry Swan, Morningside College.

Advance registration is appreciated (registration will be open soon): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mcaa-2018-outreach-event-tickets-49379440235