Birds and Flowers Chattering Wisdom: A Reconsideration of Itō Jakuchū’s Colorful Realm of Living Beings
Speaker: SATOSHI JOSHIMA, Curator, The Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan, The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Outlaws of Postwar Publishing: Japanese Rental Bookstores and their Textbooks for Criminals
Speaker: DEANNA T. NARDY, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Japanese Literature and Media, Columbia University, 2025)
Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Navigating Uncertainty: Gendered Aspiration, Meritocracy, and Imagined Futures in Japanese Selective College Admission
Speaker: FUMIYA UCHIKOSHI, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
Moderator: XIANG ZHOU, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
City of Commuters: Work and Mobility in Tokyo, 1890-1973
Speaker: BRIAN ROGERS, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Moderator: IAN J. MILLER, Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University
Labor Migration in Japan: Reform to the Guest Worker Program and Challenges of Implementation
Speaker: QIAOYAN LI ROSENBERG, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2025)
Moderator: SUSAN J. PHARR, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University