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2019 Feb 05

Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth College), “The External Sources of Rising State Strength: Anglo-Japanese Relations in the Early 20th Century”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Jennifer Lind
Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; Faculty Associate, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Feb 12

David Weinstein (Columbia University), “The Economic Impact of America’s New Protectionism”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
David Weinstein
Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy; Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Feb 19

Ian Condry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Democracy and Inequality: Learning through Sound in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Ian Condry
Professor of Japanese Culture and Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019 Feb 22

Stefan Huebner (National University of Singapore), "From the Pacific into the Anthropocene: Japanese-U.S. Research on Floating Structures, the Metabolist Movement, and Rising Sea Levels"

12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location:
S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Dr. Stefan Huebner

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Chair: Professor Andrew Gordon

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
2019 Feb 26

Vivian Shaw (Harvard), “Japan’s Antiracism Movements: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Vivian Shaw
Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Mar 05

Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University), “Shifting Terrain: Soka Gakkai, Komeito, and Prospects for Constitutional Amendment”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Levi McLaughlin
Associate Professor of Asian Religions, North Carolina State University

Moderator: Helen Hardacre
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society
2019 Mar 12

Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College), "Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Professor of History, Williams College

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; and Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute
2019 Mar 26

David Leheny (Waseda University), “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
David Leheny
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Apr 02

Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University), "From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy."

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Phillip Lipscy

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford UniversityThe Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Moderator: Christina Davis

Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Apr 16

Naomi Hirose (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.), "Title TBA"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Naomi Hirose
Executive Vice Chairman (Fukushima Affairs), and President, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc. (2012-17)

Moderator: Moderator: Andrew Gordon

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; and Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute

Seminars

Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth College), “The External Sources of Rising State Strength: Anglo-Japanese Relations in the Early 20th Century”

Location:

David Weinstein (Columbia University), “The Economic Impact of America’s New Protectionism”

Location:

Ian Condry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Democracy and Inequality: Learning through Sound in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin”

Location:

Stefan Huebner (National University of Singapore), "From the Pacific into the Anthropocene: Japanese-U.S. Research on Floating Structures, the Metabolist Movement, and Rising Sea Levels"

Location:

Vivian Shaw (Harvard), “Japan’s Antiracism Movements: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability”

Location:

Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University), “Shifting Terrain: Soka Gakkai, Komeito, and Prospects for Constitutional Amendment”

Location:

Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College), "Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan"

Location:

David Leheny (Waseda University), “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”

Location:

Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University), "From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy."

Location:

Naomi Hirose (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.), "Title TBA"

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