Speaker: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History, Harvard University

Machado de Assis, widely regarded as the most important Brazilian novelist of all time, dealt with the themes of slavery and racism throughout his literary career. He wrote stories about the seigneurial custom of resorting to sexual violence against free and enslaved black women, and he depicted these women’s dignity in dealing with the problem. In the final years of his life, Machado de Assis turned to the legacy of slavery and its consequences for Brazilian history and society.

CEDAR–Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion

invites you to
celebrate our new publication
and meet the authors

Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World

By Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserall, and David B. Montgomery

Sunday, February 21 from 4 pm to 6 pm

at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, 
Epstein Building, Brandeis University,
...

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...