Korea Institute 2012 Undergraduate & Graduate Student Awards for Korea-Related Research, Travel and Work

News Item: May 21, 2012

The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean studies community at Harvard. Through the Korea Institute, Harvard offers resources for graduate and undergraduate students to study Korea.

"Crisis and Wartime Behaviors: Media, Democracy, and International Conflict"

WCFIA Fellows Program Special Seminar
Date: 
April 24, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute

Speakers:

Kwang-Jin Kim
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellow; Colonel, Korean Air Force

Kwan hyun Moon
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellow; Journalist, Yonhap News Agency

Discussant:

Sung-Yoon Lee
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics, The Flet

"The LA Riots: Twenty Years Later"

Date: 
April 27, 2012 - 4:30pm - April 28, 2012 - 7:30pm

The LA Riots
Twenty Years Later

April 27-28 2012
Harvard University

“The LA Riots: Twenty Years Later” conference brings together leading scholars, activists, and artists to look back at—and forward from—the LA Riots.

"Material Culture, Political Economy, and the Emergence of the Earliest Sociopolitically Complex Societies of Korea"

Date: 
April 6, 2012 - 11:30am - 12:30pm

East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Early Korea Project

"Material Culture, Political Economy, and the Emergence of the Earliest Sociopolitically Complex Societies of Korea"

Martin T. Bale
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

"Sa-I-Gu" A Screening and Discussion with co-director Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Part of "The LA Riots: Twenty Years Later" Conference
Date: 
April 27, 2012 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm

The acclaimed documentary film Sa-I-Gu provided a unique look at the 1992 uprising known as the Los Angeles riots by examining the event and its aftermath from the perspectives of Korean American women. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is the award-winning filmmaker of Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women and Wet Sand: Voices from LA.

"Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town: The Mundane Performances of Race and Nation"

Date: 
April 11, 2012 - 5:00pm
Additional Cosponsors: 
Co-sponsored with the Committee on Ethnic Studies

"Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town: The Mundane Performances of Race and Nation"

Ju Yon Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University

"How Does A Sacred Thing Become an Antique Market Commodity?"

Religious Identities in Asia Seminar
Date: 
March 23, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Additional Cosponsors: 
Asia Center
Additional Cosponsors: 
Center for the Study of World Religions

"How Does A Sacred Thing Become an Antique Market Commodity?"

Religious Identities in Asia Seminar

Laurel M. Kendall

Curator, American Museum of Natural History; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University

Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University

"The Expected and the Unexpected: U.S. Grand Strategy and Asia"

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
Date: 
April 17, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
"The Expected and the Unexpected: U.S. Grand Strategy and Asia"  

Victor Cha

D.S.

Korean Language Table

Urgent Message: 
Every Tuesday!
Date: 
March 6, 2012 - 12:00pm - May 1, 2012 - 1:00pm

여러분들을 Korean Language Table에 초대합니다!

We invite you to the Korean Language Table, to be held on Tuesdays, starting from March 6. 

“Affective Politics: Proletarian Aesthetics of Cartoons in 1920s Colonial Korea”

Korea Colloquium
Urgent Message: 
TODAY!!
Date: 
April 19, 2012 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Co-sponsers: 
Academy of Korean Studies

Reception to follow