A Conversation on the Joy of Intellectual Travel: Pursuing Japanese and Comparative Legal Studies
Speaker: CURTIS J. MILHAUPT, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Picturing Otherwise: Alternate views of History and Futurity, Religion and Literature
Speaker: HEATHER BLAIR, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
Moderator: PAULINA KOLATA, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
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
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
Governing Technology in an Age of Geopolitical Risk: Economic Security and Public Contestation in Japan
Speaker: KRISTIN VEKASI, Mansfield Chair of Japan and Indo-Pacific Affairs, University of Montana
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
The Emperor After Empire: Hirohito, Cold War Statecraft, and Imperial House Diplomacy, 1945 -1975
Speaker: REYHAN SILINGAR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Modern Japanese History, University of Cambridge, 2026)
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Research Professor of History, Harvard University
Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of International Solidarity, 1950s-1960s
Speaker: DAVID AMBARAS, Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Sendai and the Asia-Pacific War: Soldiers, Civilians, Occupation, and Memory
Speaker: CLINTON GODART, Professor, Tohoku University and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2026-27
Chair: JAMES ROBSON, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Book Talk: Faith and Strategy: Ishikawa Kanji and Modern Japanese Buddhism
Speaker: CLINTON GODART, Professor, Tohoku University and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2026-27
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Speaker: RYUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, Nara National Museum
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffery T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture