May 25 (Tue)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
| Online Event: Zoom
Japan in the World: A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
Chair: HIROTAKA TAKEUCHI, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Chair: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Harvard University
Chair: ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Panelist: MARGARITA ESTÉVEZ-ABE, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Panelist: RIEKO KAGE, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo
Panelist: JIYEOUN SONG, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
Panelist: MICHAEL WITT, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD
Panelist: DANIEL ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University
Panelist: HENRY LAURENCE, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Panelist: AMY CATALINAC, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University
Panelist: PHILLIP LIPSCY, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Panelist: SAADIA PEKKANEN, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Panelist: KIM REIMANN, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
Panelist: MIREYA SOLÍS, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
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- 9:00–9:15 am: Welcome
CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Harvard University
JEFFRY FRIEDEN, Department Chair; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University
MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
- 9:15–10:30 am: Panel: Economic and Social Transformations in Advanced Capitalism
Chair: HIROTAKA TAKEUCHI, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Panelists:
MARGARITA ESTÉVEZ-ABE, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
RIEKO KAGE, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo
JIYEOUN SONG, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
MICHAEL WITT, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD
- 2:00–3:15 pm: Panel: Japan’s Democratic Governance: Institutions and Civil Society
Chair: ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Panelists:
DANIEL ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University
AMY CATALINAC, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University
HENRY LAURENCE, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
- 4:00–5:15 pm: Panel: Japan in International Relations
Chair: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Harvard University
Panelists:
PHILLIP LIPSCY, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
SAADIA PEKKANEN, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
KIM REIMANN, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
MIREYA SOLÍS, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- 5:30–6:00 pm: Closing Remarks
SUSAN J. PHARR, Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.