Events

    2013 May 09

    Conversation with PSY

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Korea Institute Special Event

    Event Poster

    Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard "Learning from Performers" Program & Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

    * Video available for view at: https://...

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    2013 May 03

    The World Bank Group in Asia

    3:30pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Event Poster

    Dr. Jim Yong Kim
    President, The World Bank Group; Former President, Dartmouth College

    Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University
     
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    2013 Apr 25

    The Proletarian Wave: Leftist Literature in Colonial Korea 1910-1945

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    Sunyoung Park
    Assistant Professor of Korean Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California

    Sunyoung Park is assistant professor of Korean literature and cultural studies in...

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    2013 Apr 18

    From Rubens to Viktor Tsoi: Conceiving an Archive of the Korean Diaspora

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs jointly sponsored with the Harvard Asia Center

    Y. David Chung, Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan; Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

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    2013 Mar 28

    Bridled by the Past? The ‘History Problem’ and Korea-Japan Security Relations

    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

    Yongwook Ryu
    Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, The Australian National University

    Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director...

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    2013 Mar 27

    Archaeological Evidence of Social Inequality and Complexity in Early Korea

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Early Korea Project Lecture

    Event Poster

    Yangjin Pak
    Professor, Department of Archaeology, Chungnam National University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

    Professor Pak received his B.A. from Department of Archaeology and Art...

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    2013 Mar 15

    Nation and Ideology in War Times: Koreans in the Russian Far East during WWI

    12:15pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

    Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Special Event

    Event Poster

    Co-sponsored by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center and the Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Yaroslav Shulatov

    Visiting Scholar, Davis Center of Russian and...

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    2013 Mar 07

    The Mystery of the Century: Lay Buddhist Monk Villages (Chaegasungch’on) Near Korea’s Northernmost Border, 1600s–1960s

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Religious Identities in Asia Series

    Event Poster

    Hwansoo Kim
    Assistant Professor, Duke University

    Hwansoo Kim is an assistant professor at Duke University in the field of Korean Buddhism and culture with the departments of Religion and Asian & Middle...

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    2013 Mar 05

    This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State in Yi Sang’s "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

    Event Poster

    John Frankl
    Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

    Chaired by David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of...

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    2013 Feb 28

    Star Wars vs. Seopyeonje: Science in Popular Culture in South Korea

    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

    Dong-Won Kim
    Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Visiting Professor, Harvard University

    Dong-Won Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1960. He studied computer science and statistics at Seoul...

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    2013 Feb 27

    Cultural Exchanges between Korean and Chinese Literati in the 18th and 19th Centuries: The Fujitsuka Chikashi (1879-1948) Collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

     Event Poster

    Min Jung
    Professor of Korean Literature, Hanyang University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

    Chaired by Wai-Yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature...

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    2013 Feb 27

    The Past and Future of Constitutional Adjudication in Korea

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Cambridge, MA 02138

    East Asian Legal Studies Lecture (Harvard Law School)

    Kang Kook Lee
    President, Constitutional Court of Korea

    * Please note that this talk is in Korean with English translation.

    Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    2013 Feb 07

    East Asian Studies Senior Thesis Colloquium

    11:00am to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    11:10-11:25                    Sandy XU (Advisor: Nara Dillon; Tutor: Liang Xu)

    Higher Education Reform in China through the Experiences of the Class of 1977

     

    11:25-11:40                    Lucia CARVER (Advisor: Tomiko Yoda; Tutor: Andrew Campana)

    On Being a Lesbian: The work of Kakefuda Hiroko, the...

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    2013 Feb 04

    "Korea Reborn" Film Series

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

     

    To The Starry Island (1993, Park Kwang-su)

    Monday, February 4th 7pm

    NORTHWEST BUILDING B103 – Special 35mm Film Screening

     

    Frontline (2011, Jang Hun)

    Monday, February 11th...

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