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
Performing Dissent: Miyazaki Tōten and Naniwabushi during the Russo-Japanese War
Speaker: JOEL LITTLER, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford, 2024)
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Wheatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Airpower Options for Japan
Speaker: ERIC HEGINBOTHAM, Principal Research Scientist, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: STEPHEN PETER ROSEN, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University
Separate Places: Historical Archaeology and Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Speaker: JONATHAN THUMAS, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Japanese Religion, Harvard University, 2024)
Moderator: RYŪICHI ABÉ, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University