State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
Speaker: JULIE TIAN MIAO, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center
Moderator: ANTHONY J. SAICH , Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School
The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants
Speaker: RICHARD KATZ, Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Ise Jingū in the Anthropocene: Shrine Reconstruction and Japan's Forests
Speaker: JORDAN SAND, Professor of History, Georgetown University and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kokugakuin University
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
Panelist: HYAEWEOL CHOI , C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa
Panelist: IZA DING , Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Panelist: TANIKA SARKAR, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor, Ashoka University
Panelist: CHIZUKO UENO , Professor Emerita, The University of Tokyo, Ph.D in Sociology
Chair: ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
The Transmission of Writing Technology between Korea and Japan in the 8th Century
Speaker: JOHN B. WHITMAN, Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
Moderator: WESLEY JACOBSEN, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language and Director, Japanese Language Program, Harvard University
Japan’s “Predistribution” Solution for Inequality
Speaker: STEVEN VOGEL, Professor of Political Science and Political Economy; Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies; Director, Political Economy Program, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Film screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY (2021, 117 minutes), followed by discussion in-person with Director YONGHI YANG
Chair: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: INGU HWANG, Associate Professor of the Practice in the International Studies Program, Boston College
Invisible Race: Deconstructing Japaneseness and Racialization of Korean Residents in Japan
Speaker: KAZUKO SUZUKI, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
Moderator: KAREN L. THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: Contemporary Challenges of Post-Industrial Economies
Speaker: KENYA AMANO, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Speaker: TAKESHI HIEDA, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Graduate School of Law, Osaka Metropolitan University
Speaker: HIROKI TAYA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; National Police Agency
Speaker: TOMOHIRO UEDA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting, LLC.
Discussant: MARY ALICE HADDAD, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Director, Office of the Faculty Career Development; Professor of East Asian and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Moderator: CHRISTINA DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University