Governing Technology in an Age of Geopolitical Risk: Economic Security and Public Contestation in Japan
Speaker: KRISTIN VEKASI, Mansfield Chair of Japan and Indo-Pacific Affairs, University of Montana
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
The Emperor After Empire: Hirohito, Cold War Statecraft, and Imperial House Diplomacy, 1945 -1975
Speaker: REYHAN SILINGAR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Modern Japanese History, University of Cambridge, 2026)
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Research Professor of History, Harvard University
Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of International Solidarity, 1950s-1960s
Speaker: DAVID AMBARAS, Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Regional Studies-East Asia Program, Harvard University
Sendai and the Asia-Pacific War: Soldiers, Civilians, Occupation, and Memory
Speaker: CLINTON GODART, Professor, Tohoku University and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2026-27
Chair: JAMES ROBSON, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Book Talk: Faith and Strategy: Ishiwara Kanji and Modern Nichiren Buddhism
Speaker: CLINTON GODART, Professor, Tohoku University and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2026-27
New Research on Kamakura Sculpture with a Focus on Kakei’s Amida Statues (in Japanese)
Speaker: RYUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, Nara National Museum
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffery T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Project Director of Harvard Bunkazai Project
Gossip and Information Networks in The Tale of Genji
Speaker: YUEYING LI, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Premodern Japanese Literature, University of California Los Angeles, 2026)
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University