IUPUI Hosts Hiroshima/Nagasaki Poster Exhibit, Live Video Conference with A-Bomb Survivor

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The 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the focus of a traveling poster exhibit running through March 20, 2009, at the IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery.

In conjunction with the exhibit, IUPUI on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, will host “Hiroshima Speaks,” a live video conference with a Hiroshima survivor, along with a panel discussion on the impact of the nuclear bombings and the prospects of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Takashi Teramoto, now 74, was a young boy living in Hiroshima when the A-bomb known as “Little Boy” was detonated over the Japanese city. Teramoto will discuss his experiences during the videoconference at 7 p.m., Feb. 23, 2009, in the Office of International Affairs at IUPUI, Room 2132 of the Education/Social Work Building, 902 W. New York St.

The video event follows a 5 p.m. panel discussion featuring four Indiana University professors, three from the IUPUI campus and one from the Bloomington campus, who will discuss economic, historical and political perspectives on the bombings and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons. 

The panel discussion and video conference are open to the public and free of charge. Seating is limited; RSVP is required.

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photo Poster Exhibition is on display at the IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery, Room 240, of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd.

The exhibit, on loan from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, includes 30 posters and drawings by survivors of the bombings.

“Some of it is intense. It shows the horrors of nuclear war,” says IUPUI economics Professor Robert Harris, one of the exhibit’s organizers. “The whole idea is to raise the question ‘Can we keep this from happening again?’”

Three documentary films and two animation films on the bombings are available for viewing at the gallery.

IUPUI is one of 100 U.S. sites to host the poster exhibit. Purdue University in West Lafayette is the only other Indiana site to have hosted the show during a two-year U.S. tour that ends in March.

IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery hours for the exhibit are: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday though Saturday; and 1 to 7 p.m., Sunday, through March 13; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 14; closed, March 15; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 16-20.

Interested individuals should RSVP for the Feb. 23 panel discussion and video conference by e-mail to itharris@iupui.edu, or imcintos@iupui.edu; or call 317-274-0095.