Beyond his legacy as an educator and a scholar, Jackson's most lasting achievements ultimately will prove to be the person-to-person connections he helped to forge between individual Japanese and Americans.

It was his belief that genuine international understanding must be built at the grassroots level in order to last, and it is with that belief in mind that the Institute for Education on Japan initiated this lecture series in memory of Jackson and his work.

Bailey lecturers usually are not professional scholars or academic specialists on Japan or East Asia, but they are fully qualified professionals in their fields, and they have both the experience and the authority to speak on a variety of issues. Lecturers typically talk about Japan and Japan-United States relations, but they are not confined solely to such topics. They also speak about other regions of East Asia, international relations, American culture and society, and other topics, and about topics that have little to do directly with Japan, but are critical for any discussion of international, intercultural, or interpersonal relations more broadly understood. These include issues such as war, peace, and justice, conflict and concord, race and race matters, identity and difference, culture and multiculturalism, prejudice, tolerance, and acceptance.

Lecturers generally make multiple appearances, addressing a variety of audiences, including college professors and students, K-12 students and their teachers, representatives of Indiana business and industry, and the general public. They also visit classes at Earlham in a variety of fields, and help students explore topics such as peace studies, history, economics, politics, sociology, and multiculturalism. All of these are issues of clear and direct pertinence to the interests and aims of Earlham, its people, and its mission.

They are also consistent with Jackson's vision of the role of education in the fostering of cross-cultural understanding, and thus the Bailey Lecturer Series stands as a modest but fitting tribute to a long career devoted to public service and the work of peace and understanding.

1996-97: Karen Hill Anton, Educational Consultant, Columnist for The Japan Times Writer, author of Crossing Cultures

1997-98: James Yamazaki, Pediatrician, Japanese-American verteran of WW II, author of Children and the Atomic Bomb

1998-99: Regge Life, Documentarian, filmed Struggle and Success, Doubles, and After America......Afer Japan

1999-00: Lady Borton, American Friends Service Committee Representative for Vietnam, author of After Sorrow

2000-01: W.D. (Bill) Ehrhart, Poet, essayist, teacher, veteran of the Vietnam War, author of Beautiful Wreckage

2001-02: Martha Mensendiek, Global Ministries, Social Work

2002-03: Staughton Lynd, Historian, Author, and Anti-war Activist

2003-04: David McConnell, Anthropologist, College of Wooster, author of Importing Diversity

2004-05: Alex Kerr, Writer and Scholar,author of Dogs and Demons

2005-06: Jack Shaheen, Mass Communication, Southern Illinois University, author of Nuclear War Films, The TV Arab, Reel Bad Arabs
 
2006-07: Kip Fulbeck, Artist and Filmmaker, author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa, Paper Bullets

2006-07: Roger Daniels, Historian, University of Cincinnati, author of Prisoners without Trial, The Politics of Prejudice

2007-08: Hiroshi Mitani, Historian, University of Tokyo, author of Escape from Impasse: The Decision to Open Japan.

2008-09: Christine Yano, Anthropologist, University of Hawaii, author of Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song, and Airborne Dreams: Japanese American Stewardesses with Pan American World Airways, 1955-1972

2009-10: Ian Miller, EC '92, Harvard University, "Tokyo, 1943: The Great Tokyo Elephant Massacre."