Japan's Gradual, Then Sudden, Revolution: The Meiji Restoration from the Spongy Middle
Speaker: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Chair, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University
Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Japan Decides: The 2026 General Election and What Comes Next
Speaker: DANIEL SMITH, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Book Talk on Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan
Speaker: ASHTON LAZARUS, Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture; Harvard College Professor; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
What the Piano Lesson Taught the Japanese about Being Japanese
Speaker: MARI YOSHIHARA, Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai`i; Professor, Center for Global Education, University of Tokyo
Moderator: TORU MOMII, Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University
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Speaker: BENJAMIN HO, Assistant Professor and Coordinator at the China Programme, Nanyang Technological University
Moderator: MARK WU, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Ikebana for Modern Daily Life: Teshigahara Sōfū's "Total Flower” Installations (1932–1941)
Speaker: NAOMI KUROMIYA, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. East Asian Art and Archaeology, Columbia University, 2025)
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
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Speaker: HARUO SHIRANE, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Columbia University
Moderator: DAVID C. ATHERTON, Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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