Beyond Common Ground: How Everyday Places Solve Big Social Challenges
Speaker: DANIEL P. ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Madness as Metatheater: Reorienting Perception in Noh's Eccentric Dances
Speaker: HANA LETHEN, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, Columbia University, 2026)
Moderator: DAVID C. ATHERTON, Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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Speaker: CURTIS J. MILHAUPT, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
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Speaker: HEATHER BLAIR, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
Moderator: PAULINA KOLATA, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
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Speaker: CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2024)
Moderator: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University
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: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
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Speaker: RYUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, Nara National Museum
Moderator: YUKIO LIPPIT, Jeffery T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
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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