"The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs"
Date and Time
April 13, 2026
12:00PM EDT
Location
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St. and online via Zoom (registration required).
Speaker
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University
Moderator
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
This seminar is part of the Special Series on Technology, Society, and Geopolitics. It is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the Harvard Department of History, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Additional Resources:
- Wijeyeratne, Subodhana. 2026. The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs. Stanford University Press.
- Wijeyeratne, Subodhana. 2020. "A Race to War: Japanese Public Intellectuals and Racial Explanations of the Russo-Japanese War." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
- Wijeyeratne, Subodhana. 2024. Triangulum. Rosarium Publishing. (Finalist for the 2025 Phillip K Dick Award.)
