Keynote Address on "Japanese Modern History and East Asia" at the 10th Anniversary Symposium for the Center for East Asian Economic Research, Kyoto University July 19, 2012
2012 Maruyama Masao Memorial Lecture on Japan Disaster Digital Archive Project at Tokyo Women's University July 5, 2012
Marius B. Jansen Memorial Lecture on "The Many Lives of the Japanese Employment System" at Princeton University May 2, 2012
Lecture on "Remembering Japan’s Experiences with Disaster: Japan Disaster Digital Archive (JDA)" at Duke University April 26, 2012
Lecture on "The History of Yesterday: Japan from the Lehman Shock to the Aftermath of March 11" at University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies March 29, 2012
Lecture on Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting Rountable March 17, 2012
Lecture on Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project at the National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan March 14, 2012
Lecture on "Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan" at Columbia University Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture April 18, 2011