Art History by Other Means: Fragmentary Assemblages in Modern Japan
Speaker: KRISTOPHER W. KERSEY, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of California Los Angeles
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Writers Speak: Ruth Ozeki in Conversation with Meng Jin
Speaker: RUTH OZEKI, Author
Speaker: MENG JIN, Author
Chair: DUNCAN WHITE, Associate Director of Studies, Department of History & Literature, Harvard University
Associates’ Panel: “Social and Economic Dimensions of Public Purpose”
Panelist: SO MORIKAWA, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo
Panelist: SAMUEL HIBIKI SEKIGUCHI, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; PR Consulting Dentsu, Inc.
Panelist: TAKAHIRO OMORI, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Staff Writer, Sankei Shimbun
Discussant: MARY ALICE HADDAD, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Director, Office of Faculty Career Development; Professor, East Asian Studies; Professor, Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Dai-Ōji: The Ōji Paper Company and Japan’s Pulp Pipeline in Asia
Speaker: DAVID FEDMAN, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Moderator: VICTOR SEOW, Assistant Professor of the History of Science
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
Speaker: SEIJI SHIRANE, Assistant Professor, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, The City College of New York (CUNY)
Moderator: KAREN L. THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Film Screening: "Nuchi Nu Miji – Okinawa's Water of Life"
Speaker: JON MITCHELL, Film Director
Speaker: NATSUKO SHIMABUKURO, Film Director
Conference: The Shōsōin Imperial Treasury: New Directions in Research
Keynote Speaker: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Picking a Language in Early Japan: Recontextualizing Sinitic vs. Vernacular Writing
Speaker: JOSHUA FRYDMAN, Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Oklahoma
Moderator: WESLEY JACOBSEN, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language and Director, Japanese Language Program, Harvard University
Addressing Japan's Population Crisis
Speaker: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard Universrsity
Discussant: DAVID H. SLATER, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese studies, Sophia University