Events

    2024 May 19

    The Poetics of Musical Interpretation

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Holden Chapel, 15 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Music Performance
    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Music Department and the Korea Institute

    Performances by Luke Hsu, Violin, Yehuda Inbar, Piano, and Rainer Crosett '14, Cello

    With original music by Cecilia Heejeong Kim, Professor of Composition and New Media, Sangmyung University; Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Harvard University and Eun Young Lee, Associate Professor of Composition, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

    Generously supported by the Kim Koo...

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    2024 Apr 12

    Global Korea Beyond the Wave

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)

    Global Korea Symposium

    Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and the Harvard Korea Institute
    Global Korea Symposium

    Organizers: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean...

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    2024 Apr 04

    “It was a Kind of Women’s Movement”: Professional Social Work, Unwed Mothers, and Gender in South Korea, 1954-1975

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

     

    Youngeun Koo
    2023–24 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences, Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Youngeun Koo is the 2023–24 SBS...

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    2024 Apr 01

    From Soft Power to Strategic Alignment: Challenges of the Two Koreas and Their Global Implications

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

    Asia Center Seminars

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

    SpeakerYaena Kwon, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center

    ModeratorRana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

    Abstract: South Korea has become a soft superpower whose cultural influence keeps growing internationally and exceeds that of K-pop. When President Yoon Suk-Yeol visited the...

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    2024 Mar 29

    Invisible Race: Deconstructing Japaneseness and Racialization of Korean Residents in Japan

    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

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute and the Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations

    Speaker: Kazuko Suzuki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University

    Moderator: Karen L. Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

    Many of the theories and concepts in Race and Ethnic Studies are constructed based on racial and ethnic relations in the...

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    2024 Mar 27

    Film screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY (2021), followed by discussion in-person with Director YONGHI YANG

    4:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute film screening, co-sponsored by Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations 
    Film Screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY

    Chair: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard...

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    2024 Mar 22

    Workshop with 1MILLION DANCE STUDIO

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Farkas Hall, 3rd Floor Studio

    **This workshop is by invitation only.**

    Workshops and Conferences
    Sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute; Department of Theater, Dance and Media (TDM) and CJ ENM

    2024 Mar 21

    [CANCELED] – U.S. Archives, Asian Scholars, and the Problems of the “Cultural Cold War” Framework

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

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

    ***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED***

    Korea Colloquium
    Han Sang Kim

    Han Sang Kim
    Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ajou University

    Han Sang Kim is an Associate...

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    2024 Mar 20

    Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia

    3:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

    HYI Annual Roundtable

    Co-sponsored with the Harvard Korea Institute, Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

    Panelists:

    Hyaeweol Choi (C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa)

    ...

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    2024 Mar 18

    State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Asia Center Seminars

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

    Speaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center 

    Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School

    Abstract: Drawing insights...

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    2024 Mar 06

    Kim Soo-Gyong, a Korean Linguist Who Went North

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Book Talk

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

    Itagaki Ryuta
    Professor, Doshisha University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2009-10

    Chaired by Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

    This talk presents the first book-length biography of Kim Soo...

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    2024 Mar 04

    Author Talk with Ed Park

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Institute Author Talk

    Co-sponsored by the Council of Korean Americans
    Ed Park

    Ed Park, Author

    Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed...

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