Lifetime Advantage at the Top: The Norm of Lifetime Employment and CEO Succession in Japan
Speaker: EUNMI MUN, Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations; Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: MARY BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Diversification and Convergence: The development of railway technology in Meiji Japan
Speaker: NAOFUMI NAKAMURA, Professor, Institute of Social, University of Tokyo; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2021-22
Chair: VICTOR SEOW, Assistant Professor of the History of Science
Panel: "Japan's Post-Election Policy Agenda"
Panelist: Ko Maeda, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas
Panelist: Daniel M. Smith, Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Panelist: Sheila A. Smith, John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia Pacific Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Back to the Water's Edge? Historicizing Current American Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific
Speaker: MESROB VARTAVARIAN, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Discussant: VINCENZO BOLLETTINO, Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Discussant: CARTER ECKERT, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Discussant: AKI NAKAI, Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Moderator: JAMES ROBSON, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard University
Bloodlines: Fictional Character Genealogies and Medieval Matrilines
Speaker: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Beyond Postwar, Beyond Nation: "Human Rights" and the "History Problem" in Modern Japan and Asia
Speaker: KEYAO PAN, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Modern Japanese History, University of Chicago, 2021)
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Japan in an Era of Uncertainty: Jabs by Editorial Cartoons, 2020-2021
Speaker: M. WILLIAM STEELE, Professor Emeritus, International Christian University
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Realizing Buddhahood through Singing: Music and Kōshiki in Sōtō Zen
Speaker: MICHAELA MROSS, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Moderator: RYUICHI ABE, Reischauer Institute Professor of Religions, Harvard University