Margarita Estevez-Abe – Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Moderated by Susan Pharr – Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Quentin Skinner – Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London

Chair Eric Nelson – Robert M. Beren Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

Jon Stewart – Radcliffe Fellow 2016-17, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Matthew Goodwin – Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Armèn Hakhverdian – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Kathleen McNamara – Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Mary Gluck – Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University

James McSpadden – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Coordinator, New Directions in European History, CES, Harvard University

Suzanne Berger – John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Patrice Higonnet – Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus & Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Adrien Abecassis – Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Niels Planel – International Consultant, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Chair, Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, CES, Harvard University

Harvey Goldblatt – Professor of Medieval Slavic Literature, Yale University

Serhii Plokhii – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian history, Harvard University

Kostyantyn Bondarenko – MAPA Project Manager, HURI, Harvard University

Viktoriya Sereda – MAPA Project Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Associate Professor of Sociology, Ukrainian Catholic University

Margarita Estevez-Abe – Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Mary C. Brinton – Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology & Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Yoshio Higuchi – Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University

Paul Chang – Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Moderated by Susan Pharr – Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University; Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations