There were plenty of panel discussions and online events this past spring that, one way or another, sought to mark the tenth anniversary of the 3.11 disasters. “Sources of Disaster: A Roundtable Discussion on New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan” was different from the others on several registers; it brought researchers together with an interlocutor doing the work of community building and reconstruction in the stricken areas, for example, which meant that questions about the utility of the presenters’ scholarship for groups like hers were among the first they had to address.
