Programs & Projects
Harvard Japan Events Calendar
SPRING 2010
ALL EVENTS UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
February 8 (Monday), 6:00 p.m. THIS WEEK
Adams Pool Theatre, 13 Bow Street, Cambridge
Film screening: Tampopo (Directed by Juzo Itami, 1985)
Introduced by Tom Levenson, MIT
Food at 24fps film series. For more information contact food24fps_admin@googlegroups.com or view http://www.food24fps.com/. Please note: Guests will not be admitted after 6:15 p.m. Entrance to building is by Harvard ID but organizers will be present to allow admittance for guests without Harvard IDs.
February 9 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m. THIS WEEK
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power"
BRUCE CUMINGS, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, the Korea Institute Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
February 16 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
"Harvard's Japan Encounter: Then and Now"
SUSAN J. PHARR, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics,and Director, Reischauer Institute and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
MODERATOR: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History,
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
February 16 (Tuesday), 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Tsai auditorium S010, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Film screening: From Brazil to Japan (Directed by Aaron Litvin and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin, 2009)
From Brazil to Japan is a transnational film project that documents the personal trajectories of Brazilian dekasegi migrants on both sides of the Pacific. Since 1990 more than 300,000 Brazilians have gone to Japan to work, forming a wave of migration known as the dekasegi movement that has had a profound social and economic impact on both countries. This 104-minute film accompanies five different families of Brazilian migrants over the course of two years, from their preparation for departure in
Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies film screening co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
February 19 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Shuten Dōji: Picture, Narrative, and Ritual"
QUITMAN EUGENE PHILLIPS, Professor of Art History,
MODERATOR: Yukio Lippit, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
February 22 (Monday), 6:00 p.m.
Adams Pool Theatre, 13 Bow Street, Cambridge
Film screening: Dinner Rush (Directed by Bob Giraldi, 2000)
Introduced by Steve Solomon, James Beard award nominee
Food at 24fps film series. For more information contact food24fps_admin@googlegroups.com or view http://www.food24fps.com/. Please note: Guests will not be admitted after 6:15 p.m. Entrance to building is by Harvard ID but organizers will be present to allow admittance for guests without Harvard IDs.
February 23 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Prospects for Disarmament in 2030: Three Scenarios for Northeast Asian Security"
NOBUYASU ABE, Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
February 26 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"The Pursuit of Harmony in Early Heian Poetry"
GUSTAV HELDT, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Virginia
MODERATOR: Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
March 1 (Monday), 6:00 p.m.
Adams Pool Theatre, 13 Bow Street, Cambridge
Film screening: Comfort and Joy (Directed by Bill Forsyth, 1984) Introduced by Gus Rancatore, Toscanini’s Ice Cream
Food at 24fps film series. For more information contact food24fps_admin@googlegroups.com or view http://www.food24fps.com/. Please note: Guests will not be admitted after 6:15 p.m. Entrance to building is by Harvard ID but organizers will be present to allow admittance for guests without Harvard IDs.
March 1 (Monday), 7:00 p.m.
Room 26-100, MIT
Film screening & Discussion: Summer Wars (Directed by Mamoru Hosoda, 2009) with Director MAMORU HOSODA appearing in person in a discussion moderated by Ian Condry, Mitsui Career Development Professor, MIT
Cool Japan Project special film screening co-sponsored by the MIT Japan Program, MIT Comparative Media Studies, MIT Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Reischauer Institute
March 2 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Panel: Rethinking U.S.-Japan Relations
"The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution and Its Legitimacy"
KEIGO KOMAMURA, Professor of Law, Keio University
"Civil Society and Cultural Exchanges in Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations"
JUNKO OCHI, Research Fellow, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Waseda University
"United States-Israeli Relationship: A Japanese Perspective"
MINA MITSU, Yomiuri Shimbun
DISCUSSANT: Christopher Hughes, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Politics and Japanese Studies, University of Warwick
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
March 5 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination"
D. MAX MOERMAN, Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
MODERATOR: Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
March 9 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on Globalization and Governance
"The Future of the Dollar "
JONATHAN KIRSHNER, Professor of Government, Cornell University
DISCUSSANT: Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
March 23 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies
"Immigrants in Japan: Citizenship and Integration"
ERIN CHUNG, Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University
KENNETH HAIG, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Korea Institute
March 25 (Monday), 6:00 p.m.
Room B103, Northwest Labs
Film screening: Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (Directed by Les Blank, 1980)
Introduced by Les Blank
Food at 24fps film series. For more information contact food24fps_admin@googlegroups.com or view http://www.food24fps.com/.
March 30 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on Globalization and Governance
"Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution"
KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Senior Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard Kennedy School
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), Harvard Kennedy School
April 1 (Thursday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Room K354, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Panel: After Copenhagen: Japan’s Energy and Climate Change Policies
"The Post-Kyoto Framework: International Cooperation and Climate Change"
YUICHI WATANABE, Tokyo Electric Power Company
"Energy Security in U.S.-China Relations"
RYUICHI KANARI, Asahi Shimbun
"Japan's Domestic Measures for Combating Climate Change"
HIROKAZU AKUTAGAWA, Tokyo Gas Company
DISCUSSANT: Henry Lee, Lecturer in Public Policy and Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard Kennedy School
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
April 1 (Thursday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location TBA
Title TBA
TSUNETOSHI MIZOGUCHI, Professor of Geography, University of Nagoya
MODERATOR: Peter Bol, Harvard College Professor and the Charles H.
Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
April 2 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Freedom without Slavery? The case of the Maria Luz and the Question of Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Japan"
DANIEL BOTSMAN, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MODERATOR: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History,
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
April 6 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"How Different Is DPJ’s Foreign Policy?"
CHRISTOPHER HUGHES, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Politics and Japanese Studies, University of Warwick
DISCUSSANT: Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Fellow, the WCFIA Fellows Program, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the WCFIA Fellows Program
April 9 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"The Invention of Japanese Cuisine"
JORDAN SAND, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
MODERATOR: Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, and Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
April 13 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Distinguished Visitor Lecture
"Home Fronts: A Transnational Study of Japan, Germany, Britain, and the U.S. in World War II"
SHELDON GARON, Dodge Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
MODERATOR: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History,
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
April 14 (Wednesday), 4:15 p.m.
Location TBA
Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture Series
"For What It’s Worth: Prices and Values in Ming China"
Lecture 1: The Cost of Everything
TIMOTHY BROOK, Professor of History and Principal, St. John's College, University of British Columbia
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies annual Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture series
April 15 (Thursday), 4:15 p.m.
Location TBA
Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture Series
"For What It’s Worth: Prices and Values in Ming China"
Lecture 2: The Price of Culture
TIMOTHY BROOK, Professor of History and Principal, St. John's College, University of British Columbia
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies annual Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture series
April 16 (Friday), 4:15 p.m.
Location TBA
Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture Series
"For What It’s Worth: Prices and Values in Ming China"
Lecture 3: Prices and Crises
TIMOTHY BROOK, Professor of History and Principal, St. John's College, University of British Columbia
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies annual Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture series
April 20 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies
Panel: Japanese Women at the Workplace
"Corporate Childcare Centers and Work/Life Balance in the U.S. and Japan"
TSUYAKO NAKAMURA, Visiting Scholar in Sociology, Harvard University, and Associate Professor, the Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
"Sex-Typing in Hiring: Evidence from Japan"
EUNMI MUN, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology and WCFIA Graduate Student Associate, Harvard University
MODERATOR: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
April 27 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
"Blood and Beauty: Eugenic Modernity and Empire in Japan "
JENNIFER ROBERTSON, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
MODERATOR: Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, and Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
April 29 (Thursday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Panel: The Political Economy of Regulation
"Regulation of Financial Markets after the Global Financial Crisis: The Future of the OTC Derivatives Market"
AKIRA TONOSAKI , Ministry of Finance
"Countermeasures against Alcohol-Impaired Driving in Japan and the U.S."
YUMIKO SUGIUCHI, National Police Agency
"Reforming Japanese Bureaucracy"
RYOTA ENDO, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
DISCUSSANT: Henry Laurence, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
April 30 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Urban Imaginaries in Interwar Japan"
LOUISE YOUNG, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MODERATOR: Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics,and Director, Reischauer Institute and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
May 4 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Panel: Contemporary Developments in the Japanese Economy
"The Price of Corporate Control in Japan"
KAZUNORI SUZUKI, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of International Accounting, Chuo University
"Determinants of R&D Organizations for Transnational Corporations: The Case of Stem Cell Research"
ELLIE OKADA, Professor, International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University
"A Comparison of Economic Education in Japan and the U.S."
YASUSHI OSHIMA, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
DISCUSSANT: William W. Grimes, Associate Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
May 6 (Thursday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Room K354, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Panel: New Directions in Japan's Security Strategy
"Fifty Years of U.S.-Japan Alliance: Changing Japanese Perceptions"
TOSHIAKI MIURA, Asahi Shimbun
Title TBA
AMY C. CATALINAC, Ph.D. Candidate in Government and the WCFIA Graduate Student Associate, Harvard University
DISCUSSANT: Thomas U. Berger, Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) presentation
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