Events

    2014 Nov 20

    "A Death Warrant for Our Nation": Syngman Rhee and South Korean Opposition to the Armistice, 1951-1954

    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

    Allan R. Millett
    Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, The University of New Orleans; Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History, The Ohio State University...

    Read more about "A Death Warrant for Our Nation": Syngman Rhee and South Korean Opposition to the Armistice, 1951-1954
    2014 Nov 16

    "Songs from the North" by Soon-mi Yoo

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Presented by the Harvard Film Archive

    THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE PRESENTS
    SONGS FROM THE NORTH BY SOON-MI YOO
    with filmmaker in person

    Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    Best known for her lyrical and astute short-form essay films, South Korean-born and Cambridge-based artist Soon-Mi Yoo made her feature film debut with her most ambitious and complexly structured film to date, Songs from the North, winner of the the prestigious Golden Leopard for Best First Feature at the 2014 Locarno...

    Read more about "Songs from the North" by Soon-mi Yoo
    2014 Nov 06

    The Significance of “Korean” Keyhole-shaped Tombs in the Study of Early “Korean-Japanese” Relations

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    Event poster

    Dennis Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

    Dennis Lee received his PhD in early Korean-Japanese relations from UCLA in 2014 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Korea Institute at...

    Read more about The Significance of “Korean” Keyhole-shaped Tombs in the Study of Early “Korean-Japanese” Relations
    2014 Oct 28

    Negotiating with North Korea: Proliferation, Peninsular Stability, Power Consolidation

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

    John Park, Adjunct Lecturer, and Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

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

    2014 Oct 07

    Logic of Thinking, Logic of Engagement: Chan/Sŏn Buddhism in the Life-World

    5:15pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Religious Identities in Asia Series

    Jin Y. Park
    Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Asian Studies Program, American University

    Abstract
    Chan/Sŏn Buddhism has been criticized for its seeming lack of...

    Read more about Logic of Thinking, Logic of Engagement: Chan/Sŏn Buddhism in the Life-World
    2014 Sep 23

    Japan’s Trouble With Islands: Law, Territory, and History

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation

    Event Poster

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

    Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

    Moderator: Susan Pharr...

    Read more about Japan’s Trouble With Islands: Law, Territory, and History