Wartime Mobilization in Late Colonial Korea: Enforcing Everyday Use of the ‘National Language,’ 1937-1945
Speaker: KYU HYUN KIM, Associate Professor of Japanese and Korean History, Department of History, University of California at Davis
Chair: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Eurasia from the East, 2024
Speaker: DAVID WOLFF, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University
Speaker: NORIHIRO NAGANAWA, Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido University
Speaker: AKIHIRO IWASHITA, Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido University
Speaker: SERHII PLOKHII, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
America’s Future in East Asia
Speaker: DANIEL KRITENBRINK, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State
Moderator: MARK WU, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Heard and Unheard Sounds: Visualizing the Voice in Interwar Japan
Speaker: ALEXANDER MURPHY, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Clark University and Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2022)
Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director, Committee on Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University
Numinous Topographies: Mountaineering, Spirituality, and Nature in Modern Japan
Speaker: CALEB CARTER, Associate Professor, Japanese Religions and Buddhist Studies, Kyushu University and HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair: HELEN HARDACRE, Reischauer Institute Research Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University
Exhibitionist Japan: 250 Years of Spectacle and Development
Speaker: ANGUS LOCKYER, Independent Scholar
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Distant Travels as Methodology: Japan Studies and Visual Artist Tomiyama Taeko
Speaker: LAURA HEIN, The Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern 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
The History and Structure of Desire in Boys' Love (BL) Japanese Literature and Manga
Speaker: YUKARI FUJIMOTO, Professor at the School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University
Speaker: MARI KOTANI, Science Fiction & Fantasy literature critic and Cultural Studies scholar
Moderator: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University
The Domestic Politics of International Statebuilding: Evidence from Postwar Japan
Speaker: MELISSA LEE, Klein Family Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Director, World House Student Fellows Program, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: VOLHA CHARNYSH, Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan
Speaker: CHARLES MCCLEAN, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Moderator: MARY ALICE HADDAD, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Director, Office of the Faculty Career Development, and Professor of East Asian and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University