Past Events

2019 Dec 06

Ryo Morimoto (Princeton), "Wild Boar Chase and Mononoke Wonderland: The Half-Life Politics of Nuclear Things in Coastal Fukushima"

4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
Ryo Morimoto
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Juliet and Lee Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series co-sponsored by Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
2019 Dec 03

Richard Samuels (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Richard J. Samuels
Ford International Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
2019 Nov 19

Panel: "Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protest in Context"

5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Steven Goldstein
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Mary Alice Haddad
Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University

Sooyeon Kang
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School; PhD Candidate, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

David Slater
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sophia University, Tokyo

Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Chair: James Robson
James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S. Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
2019 Nov 19

Erin Chung (Johns Hopkins University), "Contingent Citizenship: Two Tales of Political Incorporation in Japan and the United States"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Erin Chung
Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science; Director, Program in East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)
2019 Nov 12

Ryohei Yanagi (Eisai Co., Ltd.), "Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Ryohei Yanagi
Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Eisai Co., Ltd; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University

Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Professor of Government, Department of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; the Japan Society of Boston; and the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2019 Nov 08

Symposium: "Japan by 2030: The Decade Ahead"

4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Gerald L. Curtis
Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Columbia University; Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, the Tokyo Foundation

Christina L. Davis
Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Noriyuki Shikata
Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University;
Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary,
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Beijing

Phillip Y. Lipscy
Associate Professor of Political Science;
Chair in Japanese Politics & Global Affairs; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics;
Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
2019 Nov 05

Daniel P. Aldrich (Northeastern University), "Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Daniel P. Aldrich
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Masters Program in Security and Resilience, Northeastern University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
2019 Oct 29

Panel: Andrew Gordon (Harvard), Carter Eckert (Harvard), and Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford), "The Perils of Populist Nationalism: Japan and Korea in a New Era"

4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)
Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Carter J. Eckert
Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Gi-Wook Shin
William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea, Stanford University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

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2019 Oct 29

Elijah Greenstein (Harvard) "Japanese Shipping in Empire and War: A Global History"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Elijah Greenstein
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University
2019 Oct 22

Helen Hardacre (Harvard), "The Politics of Postwar Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Helen Hardacre
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Past Events

Ryo Morimoto (Princeton), "Wild Boar Chase and Mononoke Wonderland: The Half-Life Politics of Nuclear Things in Coastal Fukushima"

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Richard Samuels (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community"

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Panel: "Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protest in Context"

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Erin Chung (Johns Hopkins University), "Contingent Citizenship: Two Tales of Political Incorporation in Japan and the United States"

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Ryohei Yanagi (Eisai Co., Ltd.), "Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan"

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Symposium: "Japan by 2030: The Decade Ahead"

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Daniel P. Aldrich (Northeastern University), "Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters"

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Panel: Andrew Gordon (Harvard), Carter Eckert (Harvard), and Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford), "The Perils of Populist Nationalism: Japan and Korea in a New Era"

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Elijah Greenstein (Harvard) "Japanese Shipping in Empire and War: A Global History"

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Helen Hardacre (Harvard), "The Politics of Postwar Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies"

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