James Simpson, Chair, Department of English and Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University

 The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists representing a wide range of political and religious views, makes many recoil in horror. This response, however, is in part derived from the fact that our Western cultures have themselves been fiercely iconoclastic. James Simpson will discuss the six classic phases of iconoclasm in European history and highlight the role that museums...

Robert Alan Feldman
Managing Director, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

“Japan, Korea, and U.S.-China Maritime Rivalry in the Asia-Pacific Region”
Young-June Park
Professor, Korea National Defense University

“Multilateral Institution and Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea”
Kohei Yoshino
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 “U.S. Strategy and...

Celeste Arrington
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Korea Institute

"Compensation for Policy Loss or Rewards for Party Loyalty? Intraparty Resource Allocation and Party Unity”
Naofumi Fujimura
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

“Nippon Kaigi and the Grassroots Mobilization of Japan’s Right Wing”
Koji Sonoda
Asahi Shimbun

“Japan’s...

Len Schoppa
Professor of Comparative Politics and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, University of Virginia

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard...

Miranda Schreurs
Professor, Department of Government and Politics, Freie Universität Berlin

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Hirotaka Takeuchi
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School                    

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Richard Samuels
Ford International Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jessica Chen Weiss
Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University

Sung-Yoon Lee
Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor and Assistant Professor of...

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

JAPAN FORUM

Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan's Modern World

Speaker:

BRETT L. WALKER

Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University & Regents Professor and Michael P. Malone Professor of History, Montana State University

 Moderator:

Ian J. Miller, Professor of History, Harvard University

Reischauer Institute Japan...

Reception begins at 5:30pm.

Olivia Weisser, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston

Olivia Weisser earned a PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University and specializes in the history of the body, gender, and sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her talk is based on her first book, Ill Composed (Yale Press, 2015), which explores health and healing in early modern England from the patient’s point of view.

Minot Room, Fifth Floor,
Countway Library of...

Reception begins at 5:00pm.

Bert Hansen, Ph.D.: Retired Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York

For over a century, biographers of the great medical scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) have ignored his passionate and sophisticated love for painting and sculpture and the delight he took in his close friendships with leading artists.  New research on this forgotten history enriches our understanding of his personality as well as his manner of working.  The sober chemist, who had seemed to be devoted strictly to work...

Pizza will be provided.

To celebrate the opening of Corpus Delicti: the Doctor as the Detective, our new exhibit on the history of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Center of the History will present a screening of the 1950 MGM film Mystery Street. Mystery Street (also known as Murder at Harvard) was originally intended as a documentary on the work of the Department of Legal Medicine, but was later recast as a fictional drama. Corpus...