ZOOM ONLY: "Behind the Screen: Mining Pasts of the Nintendo Gameboy"

Please note: Due to inclement weather, this seminar is presented by zoom only. 

Speaker

Sakura Christmas, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

Moderator

Ian Miller, Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Harvard Department of History, and the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series.

Additional Resources:

1. Sakura Christmas, 2026. Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question. University of Chicago Press.
2. Ágota Duró and David Palmer, 2024. “Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido,” International Labor and Working-Class History.
3. Yuriko Furuhata, 2021. “Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan’s Settler Colonialism,” Public Culture.
4. Simon Partner, 1999. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. University of California Press.
5. Brett Walker, 2010. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. University of Washington Press.