Cultural & International

Osaka Metropolitan University-University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2026 
Levis Faculty Center 208, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, March 6, 2026, 9:30 am - 4:45 pm CT

9:30 am Coffee

9:45 am Opening remarks

• Matthew S. Winters (CEAPS Director/Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois)
• Hisatsugu Kusabu (Professor, History, Osaka Metropolitan University)  

10:00 am Morning Session, Chair: Hisatsugu Kusabu (Professor, History, Osaka Metropolitan University)

• Presentation 1: “Social Institutions and Self-Related Beliefs: Rule of Law, Individualism, and Interdependence,” Hirofumi Hashimoto (Associate Professor, Psychology, Osaka Metropolitan University)
  Discussant: Dov Cohen (Professor, Psychology, University of Illinois)
  
  
• Presentation 2: “Fear of Being Disliked among the Japanese: Modesty as a Default Strategy for Managing Reputational Risk,” Saya Nakamura (MA student, Psychology, Osaka Metropolitan University)
  Discussant: Dominik Mischkowski (Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Illinois)

11:10 am Break

11:25 am

• Presentation 3: “Riverboat Organizations and the Dirt Trade in Early Modern Osaka,” Rees Estrada (PhD Student, History, Osaka Metropolitan University) 
  Discussant: Roderick I. Wilson (Associate Professor, History/East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois)

12:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Afternoon Session, Chair: Matthew S. Winters (CEAPS Director/Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois)

• Presentation 4: “Organizational Nationalism: Management and Corporate Strategy in an Era of Deglobalization,” Yusaku Takeda (Assistant Professor, Business Administration, University of Illinois)
  
  
• Presentation 5: "Who Leads Japanese Firms after the Bubble? Corporate Control and Lifetime Employment at the Top,” Eunmi Mun (Associate Professor, Labor & Employment Relations)

3:10 pm Break

3:20 pm             

• Presentation 6: “Gendered Violence as Battlefield: 'Good Wife, Wise Mother' and the Transnational Modernity in the 1930s Chinese and Japanese Discourses on Abe Sada,” Yuhan Zhang (PhD Student, East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois)
  
  
• Presentation 7: “Three Ways Chinese (East Asian?) Moral Reasoning Centers around Society,” Bryan Pang (PhD Student, Psychology, University of Illinois)

4:30 pm Closing

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