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

 



    ![A gameboy.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8416/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-02/Screenshot%202026-02-13%20at%2012.02.38%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=C-NvihXJ) 

 



 

####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 23, 2026** 

 12:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Virtually, by Zoom**  



 

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

**Speaker**

[**Sakura Christmas**](https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html), Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

**Moderator**

[**Ian Miller**](https://ianmiller.scholars.harvard.edu/), 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*](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo266401173.html). 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](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547924000048),” *International Labor and Working-Class History.*
3. Yuriko Furuhata, 2021. “[Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan’s Settler Colonialism](https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262905),” *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.

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