[Speakers] 1. Welcoming and Keynote Speaker: Michael Puett

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Speaker
Panel: "Chinese Philosophy "
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, EALC

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Chair of the Committee...

[Speakers] 2. Closing Lecture: Theodore C. Bestor

Closing Lecture: "Washoku Beyond Japan: Culinary Heritage and Global Food Culture"
Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Reischauer Professor of Social Anthropology

Theodore C. Bestor is the Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Reischauer Professor of Social Anthropology at Harvard...

Andrew Gordon

Panel: "Japan and its Encounters"
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

Professor Gordon teaches courses on modern Japanese history with a primary research interest in labor, class and the social and political history of modern...

David L. Howell

Panel: "Modern Japan"
Professor of Japanese History, EALC, Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

David L. Howell is Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University and Editor of the Harvard Journal of...

Sunjoo Kim

Panel: "Roads through Premodern Korea"
Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, EALC

Sun Joo Kim is Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. She began teaching...

William C. Kirby

Panel: "Geopolitics of Development in East Asia"
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration

William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

Panel: "History of Medicine in Japan"
Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Department Chair, EALC

Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After...

Wai-yee Li

Panel: "Chinese Historiography"
Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC

Wai-yee Li has been Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard since 2000. Li earned her B.A. from the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from Princeton...

Katharine Moon

Panel: "Memory and Legacies of Contemporary Korea"
Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science

Expert on the U.S.-Korea alliance and comparative social movements in East Asia (democratization,...

Maya Stiller

Panel: "Art History, Architecture, Media"
Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Spring 2017

Following several years of research in Korea and Japan, Dr. Stiller earned a doctoral degree in Korean Art History from Free University of Berlin, Germany,...

Xiaofei Tian

Panel: "Literature, the State, and the Political Imagination"
Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC, Director of RSEA

Xiaofei Tian is Professor of Chinese Literature. Her major research field is the literature and cultural history of early medieval China, but her research...

David Wang

Panel: "Modern Sinophone Literature: Reimagination of Identity and Modernity"
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, EALC

David Der-wei Wang holds a joint appointment in Comparative Literature. He is Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University...

Alexander Zahlten

Panel: "Gender in East Asia"
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Alexander Zahlten received his Ph.D. in Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He conducted research for his dissertation at Nihon...

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