Events

    2009 Dec 11

    The Politics of 'Illicitly Brewed Liquor' in Colonial Korea

    1:00pm

    Location: 

    Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Itagaki Ryuta, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar, Doshisha University (Japan)
    Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
    Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund

    Talk Abstract
    Home-brewing was not generally illegal in the era of the Chosǒn Dynasty. However, home-brewing had been prohibited after the enactment of alcohol beverage tax...

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    2009 Nov 20

    Protection of Cultural Diversity from the Landscape Point of View: Comparison of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Traditional Garden Cultures

    5:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Room 111, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Korea GSD - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University, and Dep't of History of Art and Architecture

    People Involved:
    Sim Woo-kyung, Chair of Landscape Architecture Program, Korea University (Seoul, ROK)
    Contact Person: Okhyun Kim...

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    2009 Nov 20

    How Much Equality (and What Kind) in Korea? Some Cases

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Pound Hall 419, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    East Asian Legal Studies Program Talk – Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Ilhyung Lee, Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri
    Chaired by William Alford, Henry...

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    2009 Nov 06

    Social Consequences of Rapid Expansion of Higher Education in South Korea

    11:30am

    Location: 

    Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Joon Han, Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, Korea
    Discussant: Professor Frank Dobbin, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund

    2009 Oct 16

    Changing Motherhood in Kirogi Families

    12:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Modern Asia Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Seung-kyung Kim, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of Maryland; Affiliate faculty of the Dept. of Anthropology, Dept. of American Studies and Asian American Studies Program

    Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund

    2009 Sep 29

    Historical Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia

    12:30pm

    Location: 

    Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Co-sponsored by The Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

    People Involved:
    Yinan He, Assistant Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
    Toshiaki Miura, Abe Fellow and Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun (2004-09)
    Contact Person: Shinju Fujihira