The 2021 tour schedule will resume in February 2021. For latest updates, please visit the Facebook page of The Center for International Ethics (link at left).
To schedule an approximately 60 minute tour of the exhibition with a student-docent,
click here.
While you may view the 30 poster exhibition on your own in Powers Hall, in-person tours of the exhibition will begin the week of November 9, and run until April 2021.
The in-person tour ends with a discussion of the link between the message of this exhibition and the work of E.C. Warriner, 4th President of CMU.
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Further The Treaty on The Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons takes effect on January 22, 2021. To mark this moment, CMU's Center for International Ethics (housed in the Department of Philosophy and Religion) is partnering with CMU's Honors Program to revive an exhibition that was first installed in 2014 in Anspach Hall. Pictures of the exhibition as it appeared in 2014 at the very bottom of this page. Photos of the current exhibit appear to the right, below.
In 2014, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in connection with The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, gifted a 30 poster exhibition to the Center for International Ethics. Sent directly from Hiroshima, the posters were mounted and part of an educational program called "A Revolution of Thought" — a phrase first used by Shinzo Hamai, the first publicly elected Mayor of Hiroshima after the bombing (you can learn more about the phrase at the bottom of this page). In addition to the exhibition, CMU students also heard eye-witness testimony of the bombing from two A-bomb survivors (Hibakusha).
The 2020 exhibition is revived in Powers Hall, the home of CMU's Honors Program. Several CMU Honors students (Michael Buzzy, Kelvin Hakemi and Michelle Powers) are helping to educate their peers about the myriad issues connected to the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Just as in 2014, CMU students will be able to learn about the bombing from a Hibakusha in a Zoom session from Hiroshima. To learn more, click "Hibakusha Testimony" from the many at the top of this page.
Download the Exhibition brochure here.
Mayor Shinzo Hamai's Peace Declaration and "A Revolution of Thought"
Exactly two years after the bombing of Hiroshima, Mayor Shinzo Hamai delivered the first Mayorial “Peace Declaration” of Hiroshima. In that historic document, he urges us to use the bombing as a call to action for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Following Mayor Hamai's vision, Hiroshima was rebuilt, by law, to be a “peace city”. As part of this mandate, the city provides education aimed at building a culture of peace. This exhibition is one of the ways that Hiroshima reaches out into the world in its effort to build a culture of peace.
You can read more about the mandate to turn Hiroshima into a City of Peace here.
Photos of the "A Revolution of Thought" as it appeared in Anspach Hall, Central Michigan University, in April 2014.
