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
Macroeconomic Policy and Inflation Targeting in Japan, 2013-2023
Speaker: HARUHIKO KURODA, Former Governer of the Bank of Japan; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
Using Algorithms to Detect Gerrymandering and Improve Legislative Redistricting: Cases from the United States and Japan
Speaker: KOSUKE IMAI, Professor of Government and Statistics, Harvard University
Moderator: KATHERINE MATSUURA, Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian, Japan Digital Research Center, Harvard University
Becoming Fūkei: Living Well while Reasonably Exposed after Fukushima
Speaker: HIROKO KUMAKI, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Heart of a Heartless World: Compassion, Alienation, and the Politics of Listening in the Making of Contemporary Japan
Speaker: MICHAEL BERMAN, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University
Tainted Leave: Flexible Workplace Policies and Gender Inequality in Japan
Speaker: HILARY HOLBROW, Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society, Indiana University Bloomington
Moderator: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Japan's Prisoners of Conscience - Protest and Law During the Iraq War
Speaker: LAWRENCE REPETA, Independent Scholar
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Nuclear Things, Half-Life Politics, and Radioactive Ecologies
Speaker: RYO MORIMOTO, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Food Security and US-Japan Agricultural Trade
Speaker: YUTAKA ARAI, Commissioner, Consumer Affairs Agency
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University