演講主題：Peace in the Long Run
講者：Hirokazu Miyazaki(Kay David Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University)
時間：2025年12月10日，下午2點至4點
地點：人社C304
講題大綱：
What is peace? In today’s world of reactive exchanges of divisive rhetoric, military provocations, and threats of nuclear warfare, answering this question is difficult. In this paper, I will examine a prominent case of trans-Pacific citizen diplomacy in which peace emerges as an enduring yet diffuse concern. Specifically, I will focus on the sister city relationship between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Nagasaki, Japan—the first such relationship between the United States and Japan. Specifically, I will focus on two gardens that played a pivotal role in the history of this relationship. I will argue that paying attention to trees, rocks, and other traces of many forms of relational work offers a new way to think about.
