Platform Governance after the Pandemic and Other Crises: From a Japanese Perspective
Keynote Speaker: NARIHIRA SATOSHI, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Discussant: JONATHAN L. ZITTRAIN, George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
Persistent Rivals: The Japanese Diaspora, The Dutch East India Company, and the Fight to Control the Early Modern Deerskin Trade
Speaker: ADAM J. CLULOW, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: DAVID HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
International Education and ICT During and Post-COVID-19: Japan’s Experiences and Perspectives
Speaker: HIROSHI OTA, Professor and Director, Hitotsubashi University Global Education Program, Center for General Education, Hitotsubashi University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Discussant: CHRISTINA CIOCCA ELLER, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University
Universal Human Rights and the Nation-State: Japan in Global Perspective
Speaker: KIYOTERU TSUTSUI, H. H. and T. Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies, and Director, Japan Program, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Inst. for Intern. Studies; Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
How Japan Got It Wrong: Reflections on Gender Inequality and the Low Birth Rate
Speaker: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Director, Reischauer Institute, 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
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
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
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
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