Behind the Screen: Mining Pasts of the Nintendo Gameboy
Speaker: SAKURA CHRISTMAS, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Moderator: IAN J. MILLER, Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University
Artificial Bodies, Naked Truths
Speaker: SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK, Distinguished Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Religion and Politics in Japan Today: How Nippon Kaigi and Soka Gakkai Inform Elections and Policymaking
Speaker: LEVI MCLAUGHLIN, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Moderator: PAULINA KOLATA, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Deeply Responsible Business and Japan
Speaker: GEOFFREY G. JONES, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Gender, Class, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era
Panelist: NETIWIT CHOTIPHATPHAISAL, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, Publisher, and Democracy Activist
Panelist: MING-SHO HO, Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Panelist: ELEANA KIM, Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Panelist: HYUN MEE KIM, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University
Panelist: ANTHONY J. SPIRES, Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Melbourne
Panelist: KIYOTERU TSUTSUI, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Professor of Sociology, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies, Stanford University
Moderator: JAMES ROBSON, ames C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
The Geopolitics of U.S. Export Controls: Lessons from the Cold War
Speaker: JENNIFER LIND, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Film Screening: Pale Flower (Kawaita hana)
Introducer: PETER GRILLI, President Emeritus, The Japan Society of Boston