In a Man’s Voice: The Documents of the Nun Jukei and the Imagawa Warlords in the Sixteenth-Century
Speaker: DAVID SPAFFORD, Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese History, University of Pennsylvania
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
Book Talk: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯 (1880-1930) by Xiaolu Ma
Speaker: XIAOLU MA, Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Moderator: DAVID WANG, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
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