2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Art of the Atomic Age (Part II)
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17K13371
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
デカマス ガブリエル 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (90741710)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Art and Science / Atomic age / Nuclear technology / Hibakusha / Fukushima / Bikini / Uranium mining / Marie Curie |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The grant allowed me to by precious books on the nuclear age for my research. These books include a recent photo album by Toyosaki Hiromitsu on the Bikini incident, or a vintage novel called Radium Terror, a Mystery Story. While the book was particularly expensive because it was printed in 1912, the story and its illustrations were important. It contained some original copyright-free etchings that I could scan and use as illustrations for my own coming book on the arts of the nuclear age. Consequently, I could enrich my research in terms of content and visual material.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The finishing and copy-editing of my book took longer than I thought. Because of this, I could not initially travel to Paris or to the Bikini and Moruroa Atolls as planned. I wish to go next academic year.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
My book will be published by MIT Press in December 2018. Following this publication, I hope to organise a conference coinciding with a book launch. I also wish to go visiting the Bikini and Moruroa atolls, where so many bombs were tested during the Cold War. I want to see for myself the impact on the islands as much as research on the arts of Oceania expressing nuclear realities. Initially, I had apply to go to Paris, to research on the Curies, but going to Oceania appears more important now.
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| Causes of Carryover |
To finish and go through the copy-edit version of my book too a lot longer than I thought.
I hope to use this budget in the current fiscal year.
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