2012 Spring

“The Making of Post-Socialist Individuals: A Case of Border Crossers from North Korea”

Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture Series
Date: 
April 26, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Co-Sponsored by the Korea Colloquium and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

"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

"Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring" Film Screening

Part of the CSWR Film Series, "The Troubled Heart"
Date: 
March 21, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Additional Cosponsors: 
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Join the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) for a screening & discussion:

"Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring"

This 2003 South Korean film, directed by Kim Ki-duk, centers on a Buddhist monastery that floats on a lake in a pristine forest. The story is about the life of a Buddhist monk as he passes through the seasons of his life, from childhood to old age.

"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

Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library

"In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee" (2010) by Deann Borshay Liem
Date: 
March 7, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Additional Cosponsors: 
Co-sponsored with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
 
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library is made possible by the generous support of Clara Schiffer.
 

"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.