"Symposium in Honor of Professor Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University"
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9:00AM–9:15AM EDT | Welcome
Speakers:
Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Jeffry Frieden, Department Chair; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Mary Brinton, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
9:15AM–10:30AM EDT | Panel: "Economic and Social Transformations in Advanced Capitalism"
Chair:
Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.
Panelists:
Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Rieko Kage, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo.
Jiyeoun Song, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
Michael Witt, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD.
2:00PM–3:15PM EDT | Panel: "Japan’s Democratic Governance: Institutions and Civil Society"
Chair:
Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.
Panelists:
Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University.
Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University.
Henry Laurence, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College.
4:00PM–5:15PM EDT | Panel: "Japan in International Relations"
Chair:
Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Panelists:
Phillip Lipscy, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
Saadia Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Edowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
Kim Reimann, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University.
Mireya Solís, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution.
5:30PM-6:00PM EDT | Closing Remarks
Speaker:
Susan Pharr, Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University.
Contact:
Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu
Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
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