The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas.
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas.

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2026 November 11 (Wed) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Room 024, Barker Center, 10 Quincy St.

In Defense of Desire and Devastation: Buddhist Antinomianism in a Medieval Japanese Scroll

Speaker: OR PORATH, Assistant Professor, University of Tel Aviv and Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar 2026-27
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What Animated Artificial Humans in Interwar Japan?

Speaker: CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2024)
Moderator: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University
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