Events

    2014 Apr 17

    Return to the Orient: Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism and Aesthetic Production of “Korea” in Yi Hyo-sŏk’s Late Colonial Writings

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    Mi-Ryong Shim 
    Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Mi-Ryong Shim is the 2013-2014 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute. She received her B.A. in East Asian Studies and her...

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    2014 Apr 08

    East Asian Internationalism and Beyond: Crossing Borders in Chinese Architectural History

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Annual Edwin O. Reischauer Lecture Series

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

    Nancy S. Steinhardt
    Professor of East Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania...

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    2014 Mar 13

    The Luxury of Love: The “Rise of Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    John Song Pae Cho
    Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

    John (Song Pae) Cho is the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in the Korea Institute at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in socio-cultural...

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    2014 Feb 27

    Transformation and Sustainability of East Asian Development Model: The Cases of Korea, China, and Japan

    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

    Hyungkee Kim
    Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Professor Kim’s research interests include methodology of...

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    2014 Feb 18

    Korea's Search for Security

    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 Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs, Korea Institute

    Sung-Yoon Lee
    Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

    Karl Friedhoff
    Program Officer, Public Opinion Studies Center, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

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

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    2014 Feb 10

    Mountain Monasteries & Metropolitan Meditation Centers: A Century of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea

    5:15pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Religious Identities in Asia Series

    Mark Nathan
    Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

    Abstract
    In recent years, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism has been promoting a form of...

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