September 29, 2017
“The Monarchy in Modern Japan: with a Special Focus on the Abdication Issue”
Kenneth J. Ruoff
Professor of History
Director of the Center for Japanese Research
Portland State University
November 10, 2017
“How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about Nineteenth-Century Japan”
David L. Howell
Professor of Japanese History
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Harvard University
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November 24, 2017
“The Emperor and His Poetic Subjects: The Utakai Hajime Ceremony and Meiji Japan”

Gideon Fujiwara
Associate Professor, History Department
Coordinator, Asian Studies Program
University of Lethbridge
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November 30, 2017
“Taking Synchrony Seriously: The Crises of 1866 in Japanese and Global History”
Mark Metzler
Professor of History and International Studies
University of Washington
February 2, 2018
“Fracturing Families: Adoption for Heirship from Tokugawa to Meiji”
Marcia Yonemoto
Professor of History
Director, Graduate Teacher Program
University of Colorado-Boulder
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February 9, 2018
“Scales of History: Resonant Vibration between Family History and Global History”
Shunya Yoshimi
Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies
University of Tokyo
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February 27, 2018
“History and Hardship of the Japanese Immigrants to Canada”
Sherri Kajiwara
Director and Curator
Nikkei National Museum
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March 2, 2018
“The Family in Early Modern Japan: Looking for the Logic of Exceptional Choices”
Mary Elizabeth Berry
Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita
Department of History
University of California-Berkeley
March 29, 2018
8th Annual History Department Burge Lecture
“Illumination and its Discontents: Electricity Theft and the Political Economy of Japanese Energy”
Ian Jared Miller
Professor of History
Harvard University