Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail: The Case of Minakai
Speaker: JUN UCHIDA, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of History, Stanford University
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Fusing East and West in Clay: Itaya Hazan, A Master Ceramicist of Modern Japan (in Japanese with English translation)
Speaker: MASAAKI ARAKAWA, Visiting Professor in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Professor of Japanese Art History, Gakushuin University
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Using the Japan Disasters Digital Archive in the Classroom: Perspectives from Japan
Moderator: JULIA GERSTER, Assistant Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Director, Japan Disasters Digital Archive, Harvard University
The Indo-Pacific as Japan’s 21st Century Grand Strategy
Speaker: SAORI KATADA, Professor of International Relations; Director, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Film Screening: PLAN 75 (2022, Directed by Chie Hayakawa) followed by panel discussion
Moderator: SARA PRESS , SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Panelist: SUSAN NATHAN, Geriatrician and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician and Director of the My Life, My Story program, VA Boston Healthcare System
Panelist: JEREMY NOBEL, MD, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School
Panelist: KAREN THORNBER , Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Panelist: MAUD JANSEN, MD/PhD student in History of Science, Harvard University
Violence and Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
Speaker: DAVID ATHERTON, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
A Life in the American Century
Speaker: JOSEPH NYE, University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Guarding the Exits: Toward a History of Emigration Control in Japan, 1587-1981
Speaker: PAUL KREITMAN, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University
Moderator: IZIDOR JANŽEKOVIČ, Fulbright Scholar, Harvard & Central European University
China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
Speaker: CRAIG ALLEN, President, US-China Business Council
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Exploring the Next Fifty Years of Japanese Studies
Speaker: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Speaker: HELEN HARDACRE, Reischauer Institute Research Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University
Speaker: DAVID HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University