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
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
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
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
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
Productive Censorship? Christianity, Confucian Orthodoxy, and the Cross-Border Cosmologies of Early Modern Nagasaki
Speaker: DANIEL SAID MONTEIRO, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Early Modern Japanese History, Université Paris Cité, 2023)
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University
Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Speaker: WENKAI HE, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17
Chair: ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNISCO Nominations
Speaker: JIHON KIM, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of the International Cooperation, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University
Chair: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University