Programs & Projects

Harvard Japan Events Calendar

ALL EVENTS UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

November 25 (Wednesday), 7:00 p.m. THIS WEEK

Hauser Hall 102, Harvard Law School, 1545 Massachusetts Ave. [note room location change]
Japanese Law Film Series: Family and War in Law and Film
FILM SCREENING: Seven Samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954) with English subtitles
Peripatetic samurai agree to protect an impoverished and beseiged farming community. On the scarcity and sanctity of gratitude and compassion. Starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, in one of the greatest films ever made. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Golden Lion in Venice.
Harvard Law School Japan Law Film Series

December 1 (Tuesday), 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"The United States and Kaji Wataru in Wartime China and Occupied Japan"
ERIK ESSELSTROM, Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont
Discussion Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presentation co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Reischauer Institute

December 4 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Modernity’s Aesthetic Turn: Art Education and the Nation in Japan and Egypt"
RAJA ADAL, Reischauer Institute postdoctoral fellow (Ph.D. History, Harvard University 2009)
Discussion Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

December 14 (Monday), 12:30-2:00 p.m. [new event]

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
"Prime Ministerial Leadership: Japanese Diplomacy under Koizumi and Beyond"
TOMIHITO SHINODA, Professor, International University of Japan
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presentation