Programs & Projects

Japan Forum

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.

February 1 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Seminar Room (S050), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
KAREN WIGEN, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
"Putting the Province to Work: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912"
Faculty Chair: Ian Jared Miller

February 8 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
MARGARET MCKEAN, Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University
"Hijacking Social Capital: The Exploitation of Cooperative Social Organization in Wartime Japan"
Faculty Chair: Susan J. Pharr

February 15 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
AMY BOROVOY, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
"Japan in American Social Thought: The Question of Community"
Faculty Chair: Mary C. Brinton

February 22 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
AARON GEROW, Assistant Professor of Japanese Cinema, Yale University
"Negotiating Cinematic Modernity in Japan: Multiple Versions of A Page of Madness"
Faculty Chair: Susan J. Pharr

February 29 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
MATTHEW MARR, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2007)
"Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities: Tokyo and Los Angeles"
Faculty Chair: Mary C. Brinton

March 7 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
HWANSOO KIM, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Religion, Harvard University 2007)
"The Buddhist Invasion of Korea?: The Encounter Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism, 1877-1912"
Faculty Chair: Helen Hardacre

March 21 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
JUDITH RABINOVITCH, Karashima Tsukasa Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, University of Montana
"Kanshi Poems and the Fabric of Life in Edo-Period Kyoto: Resurrecting the Chinese Tanzaku of the Ozasa Kizō Collection"
Faculty Chair: Edwin Cranston

April 11 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Government, University of Texas at Austin
"The Post Office in Japanese Politics and Society: What will Change with Privatization"
Faculty Chair: Margarita Estevez-Abe

April 25 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
EDWIN CRANSTON, Professor of Japanese Literature, Harvard University
"Found in Translation: Discovery and Self-Discovery in the Words of Others"
Faculty Chair: Adam Kern

May 2 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
BJARKE FRELLESVIG, University Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics and Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford
"Exploring the Pre-history of the Japanese Language"
Faculty Chair: Wesley Jacobsen

May 9 (Friday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
HIROKAZU TOEDA, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Waseda University
"1926: Close Encounters between Literature and Cinema in Japan"
Faculty Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama

May 22 (Thursday), 4:00-5:30

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
"The Social Life of Firearms in Early Modern Japan"
DAVID HOWELL, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Faculty Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama