Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
Speaker: RYAN MORAN, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Mount Meru and Beyond: Genealogies of Buddhist Worldviews in Art and Literature
Speaker: SATOMI YAMAMOTO, Professor of Japanese Art History, Waseda University
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Speaker: JOSEPH SEELEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia
Chair: VICTOR SEOW, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Artist Talk with Yoshida Ayomi
Speaker: AYOMI YOSHIDA, Artist
Moderator: LILLIAN WIES, Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums
Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War
Speaker: KRISTIN ROEBUCK, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, Cornell University
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
TBD - The Future of Japanese Humanities
Speaker: MICHAEL EMMERICH, Tadashi Yanai Professor of Japanese Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities; and Professor of Japanese Literature, Waseda University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
Trump 2.0: Journalistic Insights on U.S.-Asia Relations
Panelist: YEVGENIA ALBATS, Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times
Panelist: STEVEN L HERMAN , Former Asia and White House Broadcast News Correspondent
Panelist: JOSH ROGIN, Lead Global Security Analyst for Washington Post Intelligence
Panelist: EDWARD WONG, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times
Moderator: JAMES ROBSON , James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Unfinished Decolonization and Reconciliation: Conflicts Over the Interpretation of World Heritage Between Korea and Japan
Speaker: JIHON KIM, Chief of Policy, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Professor of History; Acting Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Patient, Social Capital: Explaining the Rapid Growth of the Social Bond Market in Japan and South Korea
Speaker: WILLIAM GRIMES, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Acting Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
From Japan to Rome: Oda Nobunaga’s Azuchi Screens and the European Image of Japan in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century
Speaker: MARK ERDMANN, Lecturer in Art History, University of Melbourne
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University