Beyond Sex Work: Women's Welfare Cooperatives in Tokyo Red-Light Districts, 1946-1958
Speaker: AOI SAITO, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History, Northwestern University, 2025)
Moderator: IAN J. MILLER, Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University
Film screening: Black Box Diaries with Journalist and Documentary filmmaker SHIORI ITO in person
Keynote Speaker: SHIORI ITO, Journalist and Documentary filmmaker
Chair: KAREN THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Discussant: AKIKO TAKEYAMA, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Food, Memories, and Agri-Science in Action: Reconsidering Food Regimes in Asia
Speaker: KUAN-CHI WANG, Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26
Moderator: VICTOR SEOW, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Involuntary Consent in Sexual Violence: Law, Economy, and Gender in Contemporary Japan
Speaker: AKIKO TAKEYAMA, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Moderator: RYO MORIMOTO, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Mediating Power: How Hybrid Media Disrupts Elite Messaging in Japan
Speaker: COLIN MORESHEAD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Discussant: HENRY LAURENCE, Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Moderator: CHRISTINA DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics & Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Towards an Architectonics of Adaptation: Constructing Graphic Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Speaker: FREDERICK FEILDEN, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Early Modern Japanese Literature, University of Cambridge, 2025)
Moderator: DAVID C. ATHERTON, Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University