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Jonas Rüegg (AM '16) is the 2024 MJHA Dissertation Winner

February 27, 2024
Jonas Rüegg, AM '16, is the Modern Japan History Association 2024 Dissertation Winner for his work The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific (Harvard University, History and East Asian Languages, 2022). Congratulations, Jonas!
 
The Kuroshio Frontier adopts an oceanic perspective to shed new light on nineteenth-century Japan's geopolitical, material, and intellectual engagements with the broader Pacific world. Drawing upon extensive, original archival research,...
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Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024

February 16, 2024

Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia

The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies & Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China, Korea, and Japan, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories, legacies, and histories of interaction between and throughout the...

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"Cornerstone of the Nation" by Peter Banseok Kwon, AM '08

December 20, 2023

Cornerstone of the Nation by RSEA alum Peter Banseok Kwon (AM ’08) is slated for release in February 2024. Published by Harvard University Asia Center, Kwon's book focuses on the defense industry and the building of modern Korea under Park Chung Hee. Kwon is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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Save the Date! Regional Studies East Asia 75th Anniversary Celebrations on April 5, 2024

November 17, 2023
The Regional Studies East Asia 75th Anniversary Symposium will be held on Friday, April 5, 2024. We cordially invite you to celebrate the rich history of the RSEA program, and to take this opportunity to (re-)connect with fellow alumni and current students from the RSEA program! 

Please also note that on Saturday, April 6, 2024, the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will hold their annual Alumni Day. It is a fabulous occasion to take part in both events.

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Establishment of the Albert and Teruko Craig Fellowship in Japanese Studies

July 26, 2023

The Regional Studies East Asian Program and the Reischauer Institute gratefully acknowledge John J. Stephan (A.B. 1963, A.M. 1964) and Barbara B. Stephan for their generosity in establishing the Craig Fellowship in Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

 

Albert and Teruko Craig Fellowship in Japanese Studies at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University is a two-year fellowship for A.M. degree candidates in the Regional...

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