The Look of the Pearl Queen: Maeda Michiko and the Japanese Nude in 1950s Shin-Tōhō Films
Speaker: CAITLIN CASIELLO, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Japanese Film & Media Studies, Yale University, 2023)
Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
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