The following lectures have all been made possible by the Brad Richardson Memorial Fund. Your contributions will continue to help support future lectures.
2024 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “The Indo-Pacific as Japan’s 21st-Century Grand Strategy” by Saori Katada, University of Southern California, with discussant Ji Young Choi, Ohio Wesleyan University. February 23, 2024, 1:30 – 3:30pm ET. In person (Ohio State Campus: Journalism Building, Room 300).
2023 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Happiness in Ordinary Places: Lessons from Edo Japan” by Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University, with post-lecture respondent Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, February 24, 2023, 4:00 – 6:30pm ET. In person (OSU Campus: Jennings Hall, Room 001)
2022 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture (online): “Bridging Divides: The Work of Cultural Ambassadorships in Contemporary Japan” by Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa with post lecture respondent, Mari Noda, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, The Ohio State University, February 21, 2022.
2021 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture (online): “The Challenge of Global Governance and Japan’s Role” by Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Professor of Government, Harvard University with post-lecture discussants: Mitch Lerner, Professor, Department of History, Ohio State; Director, East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University and Alexander Thomas, Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, February 22, 2021. Registration link
2020 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Effective Leadership in Japan: The Case of Shibusawa Eiichi, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist” by Gil Latz, Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs and Professor, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University. Discussant: David Welch, Department of Political Science, The University of Waterloo, February 28, 2020.
IJS Lecture Series: “China’s Hot-Button Maritime and Territorial Claims: A Role for Japan” by David Welch, Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo, February 27, 2020.
IJS Lecture Series: “Abenomics and Monetary Policy” by Joshua Hausman, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, February 14, 2020.
2019 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of the Japanese Economy,” by Takatoshi Ito, Professor, International Public Affairs, Columbia University, February 22, 2019.
2018 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Has Abenomics Revived the Japanese Economy? Comparative Macroeconomic Perspectives with the US Economy,” by Takeo Hoshi, Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center & Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, February 26, 2018.
IJS Lecture Series: “Patsy Takemoto Mink and Anti-Nuclear Politics: Atomic Testing in the Pacific during the Cold War” by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 3, 2017.
2017 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance,” by Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 17, 2017.
2016 Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: “Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the U.S.-Japan Comparative Perspectives: 3/11, 9/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World,” by Brett Walker, Regents Professor and Malone Memorial Professor of History, Montana State University, and 2015-16 Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, March 4, 2016.