Saturday, April 23, 2011

Stanford Public Symposium: The Great Tohoku, Japan Disaster

Stanford Public Symposium:

The Great Tohoku, Japan Disaster

April 25 and 26 (Mon. & Tues.) from 7:00 pm @ Hewlett Auditorium 200
Free and open to the public. Talks, panel discussion, Q&A with experts.
Visit symposium website for details.
The event will be webcast live at the symposium website starting 7:00 pm PST.
     
Please join us for two evenings devoted to an examination of and conversation about the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake in northern Honshu, Japan, and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear accident. In talks and panel discussions, experts from the School of Earth Sciences, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and other organizations will focus on what happened, the impacts of the events, and what the future holds for Japan and other earthquake- and tsunami-zone regions of the world.