(Un) Chaining Disasters
Materials, Work, and the Everyday of Reconfiguration
Date
Saturday, 27 June 2026 9:00 – 17:00 (JST, UTC+9)
Venue
Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1st Campus, Building E, 4th floor, Large Conference Room (E401)
Format
Hybrid (on-site and online via Zoom)
Organized by:
- East Eurasian Studies Project (EES) at the Research Institute for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
- Extraction of Landscapes Research Group, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
- CIGIDEN R+ National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management, Santiago
Co-organized by:
- Research Institute for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University (PROMIS)
- Kobe Anthropology Seminar, Kobe University
Program
9:00-9:30 Welcoming
Welcoming: Kiyoshi Umeya (Kobe University)
Opening Remarks: Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna)
9:30-10:30 Session 1
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
The Undecidability of the Crisis: Enduring and Thinking through Drought and Climate Change in an Agro-industrial Chile
Marcelo González Galvez (CIGIDEN R+ National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management, Santiago)
Burned Phantasmagories:The Persistence of a Disaster in Quilpué, Chile
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2
Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna)
Wars and Disasters: Extractive City-Making in Contemporary Capitalism
Ebru Kayaalp (Yeditepe University)
Anticipatory Entrepreneurs: Seismic Risk, Legal Arbitrage, and the Reconfiguration of Urban Transformation in Istanbul
Umut Kuruüzüm (University of Vienna)
Contracting Emergency: Materialisation of Disaster in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 3
Shuhei Kimura (University of Tsukuba)
Reassembling the Communal Temporarily: A case from Noto, Japan
Taichi Uchio (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
Exploring Disaster Narratives through Online Maps: A Digital Public Anthropology Approach
Hiroki Okada (Kobe University)
The Weakening and Reconstruction of Resilience in Disaster-Stricken Communities in Japan
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:50 Session 4
Seeing Disasters from an NGO Perspective: Ertan Karabıyık (Development Workshop)
General Discussion
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
Tsuyoshi Saito (Kobe University)
Registration
https://forms.gle/94P7EvfwVMTmBmsT6
Contact
ees.kobe@gmail.com