Friday, October 10, 3:00 p.m.
“Disability & Development in China & East Asia”
Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank
Light refreshments will be served.
Pound Hall, 419
Harvard Project on Disability & East Asian Legal Studies

Friday, October 10, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Tracks of Censorship: Preserving Marks of Suppression in Japan, 1923 to 1976”
Jonathan E. Abel, Reischauer Institute postdoctoral fellow (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Princeton 2005) and Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Tuesday, October 14, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies: “Democracy and the Crisis of the Welfare State”
Katerina Linos, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Liv Coleman, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Discussant: Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Tuesday, October 14, 4:00 p.m.
“A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution”  Film and Discussion
Xu Xing, Director of Film
CGIS Building South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St.
New England China Seminar
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Tuesday, October 14, 3:30p-5:30 p.m.
“The Resurgence of Imagination”
Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer from Goa, India
With responses by:
Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian religions, HDS
RichardKearney, Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy, Boston College
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Center for the Study of World Religions

Tuesday, October 14, 4:00-5:30p.m.
“Music, Musicians and Ritual in Southwest Shandong”
Jan Chmelarcik, Department of Musicology, Charles University, Prague,
the Czech Republic
CGIS South, S450, 1730 Cambridge St.
Harvard East Asia Society

Wednesday, October 15, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
“Workshop on Modern Japanese Political History Materials”
Kensei Shiryoshitsu, director of the Modern Japanese Political Documents Division at the Reference and Special Collections Department
Morning Session (Hands-On Instruction): 9:30 a.m. -12:00 Noon
Afternoon Sessions (Individual Research Consultation): 2: 00 - 5:00 p.m.
For further information on this workshop, please contact the DCJ Librarian's office at (617) 496-0466 or (617) 495-8386. Please register by Friday, October 3 because space is limited. Enrollment for the morning session will be on a first-come basis. Enrollment for the afternoon sessions (20minute time slots) will be made onsite following the morning session (limited to 9 timeslots). Upon completion of the following registration form, please return it to KazukoSakaguchi (sakaguch@fas.harvard.edu) or in person at the Documentation Center onContemporary Japan (DCJ), Knafel Building, lower level.
Computer Laboratory (N018) in the Knafel Building (CGIS North), 1737 Cambridge Street
Co-sponsored by Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and North American Coordinating Council (NCC) on Japanese Library Resources

Wednesday, October 15, 4:00 p.m.
17th Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture:“China’s Modernization: Reflections of an Historian Turned Diplomat”
Douglas Spelman, Spelman, Former US Consul General in Shanghai, 2002-2005
A reception will follow in Room S030.
CGIS South Building, Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St.
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Wednesday, October 15, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
“From Subprime to Prime Time—Implications of the US Credit Crisis for Asia and China”
Thomas Deng, Chief China Strategist, Goldman Sachs Asia
Malkin Penthouse, fifth floor, Littaure Building, Harvard Kennedy School
China Salon
Speaker Series Organized by Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus

Thursday, October 16, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
On World Food Day, Asia Society and Oxfam America invite you to
“The Silent Tsunami: Addressing the Global Food Crisis”
Christopher Delgado, Strategy and Policy Adviser, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank Masood Hyder, Representative to the Senior Steering Group of the UN High Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis, World Food Programme
Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Mira Kamdar, Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society (Moderator)
Tickets: $20 Members, Students; $30 Nonmembers For Tickets visit http://tickets.asiasociety.org or call 212-517-ASIA
In partnership with:OXFAM AMERICA
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Policy programs at the Asia Society are generously supported by the Nicholas Platt Endowment for Public Policy.

Thursday October 16, 5:15-7:30 p.m.
“Important Women in Tibetan Buddhist History and Their Lineages”
Lama Tsultrim Allino, Buddhist teacher and former nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Moderated by:
Janet Gyatso, hershey professor of Buddhist Studies, HDS
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Center for the Study of World Religions co- sponsored by the Harvard Buddhist Community

Friday,  October 17, 12:30 p.m.
“Burma Today: Is the Ice Breaking?”
Thomas Vallely, Director, Vietnam Program, Asia Programs, Ash Institute, Harvard Kennedy School        
Professor David Dapice, Chief Economist, Vietnam Program, Asia Programs, Ash Institute, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor, Economic Department, Tufts University
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
Modern Asia Series
Harvard University Asia Center

Friday, October 17, 4:00 p.m.
“The Evolution of Councils of Nobles in Silla Korea”
 Richard D. McBride II, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Early Korea Project Special Lecture
Korea Institute

Friday, October 17, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Defining the 'Greatest Problem': Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan"
Trent Maxey, Reischauer Institute postdoctoral fellow (Ph.D. History, Cornell 2005) and Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Amherst College
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

 Friday, October 17, 5:00 p.m.
“25 Years of Literary Creation by Tibetan Women (1983 – 2008): A Preliminary Inquiry into a Hitherto Neglected Field of Literature”
Dr. Francoise Robin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
One Bow Street, Room 317
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies & Tibetan and Himalayan Studies


Monday, October 20, 4:00 p.m.
“Charity in Late Ming China”
Joanna Handlin Smith, Harvard University.
Contact Vincent Leung (vleung@fas.harvard.edu) or Prof. Li Wai-yee (wyli@fas.harvard.edu) for more information
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.  

Tuesday, October 21, 6:00-10:00  p.m.
Cool Japan 2008-09: Virtual Worlds, Real Politics:
“CAMPAIGN” (Senkyo, 2007) Film Screening with director Kazuhiro Soda in person.
Documentary filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda closely follows a heated election campagin in Kawasaki, Japan during the fall of 2005 when the Liberal Democratic Party selects Kazuhiko Yamauchi, 40 years old, self-employed and with no experience in politics, to run for a vacant city council seat. Film is in Japanese with English subtitles (119 minutes).
MIT 32-141 (Stata Center), 32 Vassar St.
Harvard/MIT Cool Japan research project event
Sponsored by the MIT Japan Program, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Reischauer Institute

Wednesday, October 22, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
"The 2008 Presidential Election: What's at Stake?"
Michael S. Dukakis, Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, and the 1988 Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States
Discussant: Virginia Sapiro, Dean of the College of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Belfer Case Study Rm. S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)

Wednesday, October 22, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
“Afterlife Marriage Ceremony in Contemporary China”
Ping Yao, Women’s Studies in religion Program Research Associate and Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and Budhist Religios History, HDS
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
World Religions Café
Center for the Study of World Religions

Thursday, October 23, 4:00 p.m.
“Writing and Censorship During the Japanese Colonial Period: The Strange Case of Yi Sang's Poetry”
YoungMin Kwon, Professor of Korean Literature, Seoul National University, Korea
Chaired by David McCann, Director, Korea Institute; Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Korea Colloquium
Korea Institute

Friday, October 24, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Movement, Mimesis, and Musicality in the Films of Ogawa Shinsuke”
Abé Marcus Nornes, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University and Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures, and Professor of Asian Languages and Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
Seminar Room S050, Friends Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Friday, October 24-Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Chinese Art of Enlivenment: A Symposium
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~eaah/conferences/oct-2008/index.html
For information, please contact miller9@fas.harvard.edu
Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South Building , 1730 Cambridge Street
Sponsored by The Rockefeller Fund, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Monday, October 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Title TBA”
Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America
Discussant: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Belfer Case Study Rm. S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) Fellows Program and the WCFIA U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar

Monday, October 27, 6:15 p.m.
“Crossing the Line,” Film Screening. Directed and Produced by Daniel Gordon
Nick Bonner, Film Co-Producer, in person
Free and open to the public
Discussion with the producer following the film will be chaired by Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Note: For more information on "Crossing the Line" visit www.crossingthelinefilm.com
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Korea Institute

Tuesday, October 28, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
“Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the Twenty-First Century”
Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Jun Kurihara, Senior Fellow, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School

Tuesday, October 28, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
“Is Japan Missing Out on the 21st Century? Feminization, Immigration, and Brain Circulation”
Robert DuJarric, Director, Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS), Temple University Japan
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) Associates' Study Group event

Wednesday, October 29, 5:00 p.m.
“Erlitou: A Major Focus for the Study of State Formation in Early China”
Xu Hong, Cass, Ioa
Peabody Museum 14A
Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Wednesday, October 29, 5:15-7:30 p.m.
“Divine and Human Persons: Comparative Reflections on Some Hindu and Christian Understandings of Self”
Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University
Hosted by:
Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, HDS
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Center for the Study of World Religions co-sponsored by the Society for Comparative Theology

Thursday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.                    
Screening of the film “Kabul Transit”
CGIS South, Room S153
Modern Asia Series
Harvard University Asia Center

Friday, October 31, 12:30 p.m.
“Making Sense of Security”: A Discussion of the Film: Kabul Transit
Professor David B. Edward, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
Modern Asia Series
Harvard University Asia Center

Monday, November 3, 12:00 p.m.
“Autism in China”
Helen McCabe, Assistant Professor of Education,Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Light refreshments will be served.
Pound Hall, 419
Harvard Project on Disability & East Asian Legal Studies

Monday, November 3, 4:00 p.m.
“Girls’ School: A (Foolish?) Woman’s Sexual Education in Chipozi zhuan”
Paola Zamperini, Amherst College.
Contact Vincent Leung (vleung@fas.harvard.edu) or Prof. Li Wai-yee (wyli@fas.harvard.edu) for more information
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations  

Monday, November 3, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
JAPAN SUMMER WORK ABROAD MEETING
Direct inquries to Montana Higo
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute

Tuesday, November, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
JAPAN SUMMER STUDY ABROAD MEETING
Direct inquries to Montana Higo
Bowie-Vernon Room (L262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute

Wednesday, November 5, 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
“Moral Worlds and Religious Subjectivities: perspectives from Hindu Studies”
Leela Prasad, Associate Professor of Ethics and Indian religions, Department of Religion, Duke University
Response offered by:
Thomas Vallely, Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of religious Studies, Brown University
Lunch will be provided.
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Moral Worlds and Religious Subjectivities
Center for the Study of World Religions

Wednesday, November 5, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Current Events Roundtable
Bowie-Vernon Room (L262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Contemporary Politics study group event

Thursday, November 6, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Cool Japan 2008-09: Virtual Worlds, Real Politics:  “Digital/Mobile Youth in Japan: new Cultural and Political Movements”
Yoshitaka Mori, Professor, Tokyo National University of Music and Fine Arts
MIT, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive
Harvard/MIT Cool Japan research project event
Sponsored by the MIT Japan Program, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Reischauer Institute

Thursday, November 6, 4:00 p.m.
“Enlightenment-scapes in Korean Peninsular Cinemas”
Steven Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Chaired by Eileen Chow, Associate Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University
Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Korea Colloquium
Korea Institute

Friday, November 7, 12:30 p.m.
“Lessons for labor: The U.S.- Cambodia Trade Agreement"
Dr. Regina M. Abrami, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School, Faculty Chair, HBS Immersion Experience Program                       
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level   
Modern Asia Series
Harvard University Asia Center

Friday, November 7, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Serving the Buddha through Serving the Emperor: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns as Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Early Modern Japan”
Gina Cogan, Assistant professor of Asian Religions, Boston University
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Wednesday, November 12, 5:00 p.m.
“The Chinese Upper Paleolithic”
QU Tongli, Peking University
Peabody Museum 14A
Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Thursday, November 13, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies: “The Short, Strange Life of Japan's 'Values Diplomacy”
David Leheny, Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute


Monday, November 17, 4:00 p.m.
“Spectacle and Power in Qing Rainmaking”
Jeff Snyder-Reinke,  Northern Michigan University.  (Visiting faculty at Harvard University, 2008-09)
Contact Vincent Leung (vleung@fas.harvard.edu) or Prof. Li Wai-yee (wyli@fas.harvard.edu) for more information
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Tuesday, November 18, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia :“Why Apologize? Japan's 'History Problem' in Asia”
Alexis Dudden, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Jennifer Lind, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute

Wednesday, November 19, 5:00 p.m.
“Archaeology of the Sages: Myth and Monument in Contemporary China”
Robin McNeal, Cornell University
Peabody Museum 14A
Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Thursday, November 20, 4:00 p.m.
“Transformative Engagement with the DPRK: What's at Stake and Challenges Ahead”
Brad Babson, Retired World Bank Official and expert on East Asia
Chaired by Sung-Yoon Lee, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Kim Koo Forum
Korea Institute

Thursday, November 20, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Title TBA
Kyu Hyun Kim, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Seminar Room, 61 Kirkland St.
Constitutional Revision in Japan research project lecture
Reischauer Institute

Friday, November 21-Saturday, November 22, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Symposium: “The Artifact of Literature: Japanese Books, Manuscripts, and Illustrated Scrolls”
Direct all inquiries to Akiko Yamagata at ayamagat@fas.harvard.edu.
Thompson Room, Barker Center for the Humanties, 12 Quincy St.
Co-sponsored by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Funds; 人間文化研究機構国文学研究資料館; National Institute of the Humanities, National Institute of Japanese Literature; and the Reischauer Institute.

Friday, November 21, 12:30 p.m.
“Public Health Issues in Asia” (tentative title)                            
Dr. Jim Kim, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights,Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine, HMS, Former Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS Department
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
Modern Asia Series
Harvard University Asia Center

Friday, November 21, 4:00 p.m.
“Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages: Divergence and Contact”
J. Marshall Unger, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
Chaired by Wesley Jacobsen, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language; Director of the Japanese Language Program, Harvard University
Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Japan Forum-Co-sponsored by the Korea Colloquium

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 21–23
“Biographical Databases for the Study of China’s History”
Peter Bol
The workshop will bring together scholars from Taiwan, China, Japan, Europe, and the US who have been working on biographical databases for China’s history. Scholars working on European prosopography biographical markup methodology and the computational analysis of unstructured text will also participate. The workshop will address both practical issues relating to databases and historical ones relating to the use of biographical data to develop new insights into China’s history.
CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge St.
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Monday, November 24, 4:00 p.m.  
“Software for Analyzing the Complete Tang Poems 全唐詩, Complete Song Poems 全宋詩, and Other Texts” [Presentation in Chinese]
Li, Duo.  Peking University.
Contact Vincent Leung (vleung@fas.harvard.edu) or Prof. Li Wai-yee (wyli@fas.harvard.edu) for more information
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations  

Monday, December 1, 4:00 p.m.
“Yang Xiong and the Classical Turn in Han”
Michael Nylan.  University of California at Berkeley.
Contact Vincent Leung (vleung@fas.harvard.edu) or Prof. Li Wai-yee (wyli@fas.harvard.edu) for more information
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations  

Tuesday, December 2, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
“Yankee Capitalist Go Home! Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan”
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) event co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute

Wednesday, December 3, 5:00 p.m.
“Changes of Tomb Structure in Han China”
Yang Zhefeng, Peking University
Peabody Museum 14A
Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Thursday, December 4, 4:00 p.m.
"TBA"
Hazel Smith, Professor of International Relations, Director of Graduate Studies; Director of MA in Humanitarianism and Security, Politics and International Studies Department, University of Warwick, England
Chaired by Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Kim Koo Forum
Korea Institute

Friday, December 5, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Education and the Postponement of Motherhood in Contemporary Japan”
Eiko Kenjoh, Associate Professor of Economics, Asia University
Moderator: Margarita Estevez-Abe, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

Monday, December 8, 4:15-5:30 p.m.
“Title TBA”
Max Moerman, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College; Associate Director, Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture and Columbia Center for Japanese Religions, Columbia University
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum event sponsored by the Reischauer Institute

Tuesday, December 9, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
"Life in the Mountains: Images of the Past, Lessons for the Future"
Scott Schnell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations event co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 5:00 p.m.
“TBA”
Xiaoli Ouyang, Harvard University
Peabody Museum 14A
Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Thursday, December 11, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
"U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence"
Jim Schoff, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Contemporary Politics study group event

Thursday, December 11, 4:00 p.m.
“Imperial Hangover: The Chosôn Monarchy in Republican Korea”
Christine Kim, Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Service (and Department of History), Georgetown University
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Korea Colloquium
Korea Institute

Friday, December 12, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Flirtatious Evidence: Photography's Metaphoric and Metonymic Promises"
Julia Thomas, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Seminar Room S050, Friends Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Monday, December 15, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia:“Stabilizing the U.S.-Japan-China Triangle”
Mike M. Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur, George Washington University
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations event co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies