Magic Lantern Technology, Transnational Knowledge, and the 'Living Machine' in Tokugawa Japan
Speaker: LEWIS BREMNER, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, University of Oxford 2019)
Moderator: DAVID HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History & Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Film Screening of “Shusenjo” and Discussion with the Director, Miki Dezaki
Speaker: MIKI DEZAKI, Film Director
Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Discussant: CARTER ECKERT, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Discussant: KAREN THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Leven Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: Japan in the World Order: Power Shifts and Domestic Contestation
Panelist: TOMOKI KUNIYOSHI, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Panelist: CLAUDIA JUNGHYUN KIM, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (Ph.D. Political Science, Boston University)
Panelist: TATSUKI ONDA, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Director and Economist, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC
Discussant: JENNIFER LIND, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
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
Family-run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030
Speaker: ROGER GOODMAN, Nissan Professor of Japanese Studies and Warden of St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Moderator: SUSAN J. PHARR, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: Challenges of Democracy in the U.S. and Japan
Panelist: MASAHITO WATANABE, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Political Science, Hokkaido University
Panelist: YUJI ENDO, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun
Panelist: TAISHI MURAOKA, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (Ph.D. Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussant: MARY ALICE HADDAD, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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
Merit or Inheritance?: How Young Adults Understand Inequality in Japan and Korea
Speaker: YUKI ASAHINA, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Sociology, University of Hawai`i 2019)
Moderator: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University