Events

    2017 Nov 30

    Asia Responds to Trump in Asia

    4:15pm to 6:15pm

    Location: 

    Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard University Asia-related Centers Trump and Asia Series Presentation; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


    Ronak Desai, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, India and...

    Read more about Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
    2017 Nov 14

    Transformation of Familialist States in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation, co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute

    Margarita Estevez-Abe
    Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

    Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

    2017 Nov 13

    Old Partner

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    S354, 3rd Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Film Series on Aging in Asia, co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute, and South Asia Institute

    AC Film Series on Aging in Asia Poster

    ... Read more about Old Partner
    2017 Nov 09

    Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs
    Nov. 9 KKF Poster

    Jordan Siegel
    Associate Professor of Strategy, University of Michigan

    Yujin Jeong
    Assistant Professor of International...

    Read more about Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents
    2017 Oct 26

    What was Different from Former Uprisings?: Candlelight Demonstration in 2016 and 2017

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs
    Tae Gyun Park's Event Poster

    Tae Gyun Park
    Kim Koo Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2017-18, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Korean...

    Read more about What was Different from Former Uprisings?: Candlelight Demonstration in 2016 and 2017
    2017 Oct 13

    The Ondol Problem and Politics of Conservation in Colonial Korea

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation, co-sponsored by Korea Institute

    David Fedman
    Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

    Moderator: Ian J. Miller, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

    2017 Oct 12

    The Korean Trickster Figure

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium
    1

    Charles La Shure
    Assistant Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Charles La Shure is an Assistant Professor in the Department of...

    Read more about The Korean Trickster Figure
    2017 Oct 05

    Dirty Clothes in Sacred Statues: Exploring a Buddhist Practice from the Late Koryŏ and Chosŏn Dynasties

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium
    10/5 Korea Colloquium poster

    Youn-mi Kim
    Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Ewha Womans University 

    Chaired by Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and...

    Read more about Dirty Clothes in Sacred Statues: Exploring a Buddhist Practice from the Late Koryŏ and Chosŏn Dynasties
    2017 Oct 05

    Polarized Embrace: South Korean Media Coverage of Human Rights, 1990-2016

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk, co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    Jeong-Woo Koo
    Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University

    Chaired by Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University


    For more information: https://...

    Read more about Polarized Embrace: South Korean Media Coverage of Human Rights, 1990-2016
    2017 Sep 21

    What Did the Ancestors Do? A Short Review of 'Under the Ancestors’ Eyes

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium
    9/21 KC poster
    Martina Deuchler
    Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London

    Born in 1935, Martina Deuchler received a B.A. in Chinese and Japanese from Leiden University and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern...

    Read more about What Did the Ancestors Do? A Short Review of 'Under the Ancestors’ Eyes
    2017 Sep 15

    I'd Rather Be Dead: Conflicts of Care at the End of Life

    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 Presentation
    Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies


    Karen L. Thornber
    Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Civilizations, & Director, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University

    Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University