Filtering Special Interests: How Institutions Shape the Politics of Trade Securitization
Speaker: TIMOTHY CHICHANOWICZ, Japan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Book Talk on Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries: Pilgrimage Mandalas and the Art of Fundraising in Medieval Japan
Speaker: TALIA ANDREI, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Art History, Wesleyan University
Moderator: HELEN HARDACRE, Reischauer Institute Research Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University
Beyond Common Ground: How Everyday Places Solve Big Social Challenges
Speaker: DANIEL P. ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Madness as Metatheater: Reorienting Perception in Noh's Eccentric Dances
Speaker: HANA LETHEN, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, Columbia University, 2026)
Moderator: DAVID C. ATHERTON, Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
A Conversation on the Joy of Intellectual Travel: Pursuing Japanese and Comparative Legal Studies
Speaker: CURTIS J. MILHAUPT, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Picturing Otherwise: Alternate views of History and Futurity, Religion and Literature
Speaker: HEATHER BLAIR, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
Moderator: PAULINA KOLATA, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
What Animated Artificial Humans in Interwar Japan?
Speaker: CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2024)
Moderator: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University