Events

    2024 May 19

    The Poetics of Musical Interpretation

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Holden Chapel, 15 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Music Performance
    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Music Department and the Korea Institute

    Performances by Luke Hsu, Violin, Yehuda Inbar, Piano, and Rainer Crosett '14, Cello

    With original music by Cecilia Heejeong Kim, Professor of Composition and New Media, Sangmyung University; Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Harvard University and Eun Young Lee, Associate Professor of Composition, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

    Generously supported by the Kim Koo...

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    2024 Apr 12

    Global Korea Beyond the Wave

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)

    Global Korea Symposium

    Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and the Harvard Korea Institute
    Global Korea Symposium

    Organizers: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean...

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    2024 Apr 01

    From Soft Power to Strategic Alignment: Challenges of the Two Koreas and Their Global Implications

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

    Asia Center Seminars

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

    SpeakerYaena Kwon, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center

    ModeratorRana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

    Abstract: South Korea has become a soft superpower whose cultural influence keeps growing internationally and exceeds that of K-pop. When President Yoon Suk-Yeol visited the...

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    2024 Mar 29

    Invisible Race: Deconstructing Japaneseness and Racialization of Korean Residents in Japan

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute and the Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations

    Speaker: Kazuko Suzuki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University

    Moderator: Karen L. Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

    Many of the theories and concepts in Race and Ethnic Studies are constructed based on racial and ethnic relations in the...

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    2024 Mar 27

    Film screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY (2021), followed by discussion in-person with Director YONGHI YANG

    4:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute film screening, co-sponsored by Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations 
    Film Screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY

    Chair: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard...

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    2024 Mar 20

    Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia

    3:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

    HYI Annual Roundtable

    Co-sponsored with the Harvard Korea Institute, Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

    Panelists:

    Hyaeweol Choi (C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa)

    ...

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    2024 Mar 18

    State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Asia Center Seminars

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

    Speaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center 

    Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School

    Abstract: Drawing insights...

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    2024 Mar 06

    Kim Soo-Gyong, a Korean Linguist Who Went North

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Book Talk

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

    Itagaki Ryuta
    Professor, Doshisha University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2009-10

    Chaired by Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

    This talk presents the first book-length biography of Kim Soo...

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    2023 Oct 02

    T. S. ELIOT MEMORIAL READING: Kim Hyesoon with Don Mee Choi

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University (Quincy Street &, Harvard St, Cambridge, MA 02138)

    The Woodberry Poetry Room's 2023 T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading
    Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    The Woodberry Poetry Room's 2023 T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading will honor one of the pre-eminent voices in South Korean poetry and the trailblazing author of fourteen inimitable books of poetry: Kim, Hyesoon.
    Kim will read with her long-time translator -- the award-winning poet ...

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    2023 Sep 18

    Panel, “The Political Economy of Energy Security and Climate Change Response: Korea and Japan in Global Perspective”

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building

    U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar
    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

    Seong-ik Oh, Director General, Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

    Phillip Lipscy, Professor of Political Science and Chair in Japanese Politics & Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy;...

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    2023 Jun 08

    An Introduction to Rare Korean Buddhist Books in the Harvard-Yenching Library: Focusing on Min Young-gyu, Hu Shih, and Bruno Petzold

    11:00am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk
    Co-sponsored by Korea Institute

    Park Younghwan, Dean, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Dongguk University; Harvard-Yenching Library Research Scholar 2023

    CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jidong Yang, Librarian, Harvard-Yenching Library

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    2023 Apr 28

    A Conversation with Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the Republic of Korea

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA

    The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics
    Co-sponsored by Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School

    Join a conversation with the President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol. President Yoon will deliver a speech on the challenges to freedom and the responses to them, followed by a moderated discussion with University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus Joseph S. Nye Jr. He will then take questions from audience members.

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