Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War
Speaker: KRISTIN ROEBUCK, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, Cornell University
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Artist Talk with Yoshida Ayomi
Speaker: AYOMI YOSHIDA, Artist
Moderator: LILLIAN WIES, Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Speaker: JOSEPH SEELEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia
Chair: VICTOR SEOW, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Mount Meru and Beyond: Genealogies of Buddhist Worldviews in Art and Literature
Speaker: SATOMI YAMAMOTO, Professor of Japanese Art History, Waseda University
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
Speaker: RYAN MORAN, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Religion and Humor in Early Modern Japanese Graphic Narrative Kibyōshi
Speaker: SARANYA CHOOCHOTKAEW, Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair: RYŪICHI ABÉ, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University
Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Speaker: MARGARITA ESTÉVEZ-ABE, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University
Moderator: SUSAN J. PHARR, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
How Sounds Shape Thought: Five Experiments in Scholarly Communication
Speaker: NICHOLAS HARKNESS, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Speaker: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
Speaker: JENNIFER MCGUIRE, Associate Professor, Doshisha University; Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar
Speaker: ALEXANDER MURPHY, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Clark University; Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Speaker: SI NAE PARK, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: Social Policy Agenda and Innovations
Panelist: MASAMI FUJIOKA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Panelist: NAGISA OSAKI, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; House of Representatives
Panelist: MINATO SATO, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Fukuoka District Court
Discussant: DANIEL ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
The Art of Seeing Flowers: Exploring the Lexical Landscape of Early Modern Japanese Poetry
Speaker: EIKO KAWAMURA, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair: DAVID C. ATHERTON, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University