Conferences & Symposia

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies supports many opportunities for scholars from across the country and around the world to come together at Harvard. These conferences and symposia provide a setting in which scholars can share their research, exchange ideas, and contribute to discussion and debate surrounding various topics in Japanese studies.
 

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Symposium
25 May 2021
Japan in the World  |  A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University

Welcome
Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Jeffry Frieden, Department Chair; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University
Mary Brinton, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Panel: "Economic and Social Transformations in Advanced Capitalism"
Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Rieko Kage, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo
Jiyeoun Song, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
Michael Witt, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD
Chair: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

Panel: "Japan's Democratic Governance Institutions and Civil Society"
Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University
Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University
Henry Laurence, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Chair: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

Panel: "Japan in International Relations"
Phillip Lipscy, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Saadia Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Kim Reimann, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
Mireya Solís, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Chair: Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Closing Remarks
Susan Pharr, Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
 

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Symposium
12 April 2024
Symposium in Honor of Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

Panel 1

"Understanding Family Change and Low Fertility in East Asia" 
James Raymo, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

"Marriage and Dating in Japan: Lessons for Understanding Values, Behavior, and the Gender System"
Wei-hsin Yu, Department of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles

​​"Egalitarian Workplaces: Organizational Patterns of Gender Wage Inequality in Japan and South Korea"
Eunmi Mun, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Short Reflections

Gavin Whitelaw, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Herrissa Lamothe, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

Xiana Bueno, Department of Applied Health Sciences, Indiana University

Panel 2

"Social Structure, Schooling institutions, and Educational Inequality in China"
Lingxin Hao, Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University

"Vanguards of New Gender and Family Norms in Korea"
Eunsil Oh, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin

"Riding the Leviathan: Gender, Fertility, and Selfhood in Autocratic China"
Juliet (Yun) Zhou, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Short Reflections

Kathy Tegtmeyer-Pak, Department of Asian Studies and Department of Political Science, St. Olaf College

Elizabeth McSweeney Cobbs, Independent Scholar