Programs & Projects
Japan Forum FALL 2009
Japan Forum talks are open to the public. Unless indicated otherwise they are held on Fridays from 4:00-5:30 pm at the Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street.
September 11 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Belfer Case Study Room S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Mountains, Magic, and Mothers: Envisioning the Female Ascetic in Medieval Japan"
MELISSA MCCORMICK, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Faculty chair: Ryuichi Abe
September 25 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Time in Japan, Past, Present, and Future: From Temple Bells to Sazae-san, Mystery Novels, and ..."
TAKEHIKO HASHIMOTO, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tokyo
Faculty chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama
October 2 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Organizing Life: Biopolitics and Japan's Commuter Train Network"
MICHAEL FISCH, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University 2008)
Faculty chair: Theodore C. Bestor
October 9 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"The Temporality of Girlhood and the Nostalgia for the Present in Japanese Media Culture"
TOMIKO YODA, Visiting Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University, and Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian and African Languages and Literatures, Program in Literature, and Women's Studies, Duke University
Faculty chair: Susan J. Pharr and Ryuichi Abe
October 23 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Murasaki Shikibu Meets Generative Grammar: What We Can Learn from the Particle wo in Old Japanese"
SHIGERU MIYAGAWA, Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty chair: Wesley Jacobsen
October 30 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West"
SHOJI YAMADA, Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto
Faculty chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama
November 6 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring"
FRANCES ROSENBLUTH, Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, Yale University
Faculty chair: J. Mark Ramseyer
November 13 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Tsai auditorum S010, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story"
IAN CONDRY, Associate Professor, Mitsui Career Development Professor, MIT
Faculty chair: Susan J. Pharr
November 20 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"Remembering the Soldiers: The Cultural Reproduction of National Trauma in Japan"
AKIKO HASHIMOTO, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty chair: Mary C. Brinton
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)
Faculty chair: Andrew Gordon
