The Matrilineal Project: Twins, Excess, and Lineage in Late Autumn Rains at Kowata (Kowata no shigure)
Speaker: TERRY KAWASHIMA, Professor of Japanese, University of Massachusetts Boston
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations ,Harvard University
How Thought Shapes Sound: Experiments in Scholarly Communication
Speaker: FREDERICK FEILDEN, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Early Modern Japanese Literature, University of Cambridge, 2025)
Speaker: JOANNA LINZER, Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar (Assistant Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross)
Speaker: MATTHEW WILD, Preceptor in Literary Sinitic, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Speaker: MENGLAN CHEN, Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Film & Media Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Trump, Takaichi and the Geopolitics of Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific
Speaker: KENNETH WEINSTEIN, Japan Chair at Hudson Institute
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
The Narrowing Sea: Three Portraits of a Region
Speaker: HANNAH SHEPHERD, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University