Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Speaker: GARY BASS, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Princeton University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Comedic Storytelling (rakugo)
Speaker: LORIE BRAU, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, University of New Mexico
2011 Earthquake and 'Shin-Godzilla': What have we learnt?
Speaker: MARTIN FACKLER, NY Time Journalist; Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Sugihara Chiune and the Soviet Union: New Documents, New Perspectives
Speaker: DAVID WOLFF, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University
Moderator: MAXIM D. SHRAYER, Professor of Russian, English and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center, Harvard University
The Fukushima Fifty: Myth Making and Myth Busting in Narratives of Japan's Nuclear Disaster
Speaker: MARTIN FACKLER, Journalist and Visiting Research Associate, Reischauer Institute
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Animating the Salvific Resonance of the Virtuous Prince: Jien (1155-1225) and the Worship of Prince Shōtoku in Medieval Japan
Speaker: ERIC HARUKI SWANSON, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University