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    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...

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    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 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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    2013 Nov 07

    Artist as Producer and Kitsch: The Ethnographic Turn in Colonial Culture

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 01238

    Korea Colloquium

    Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

    Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her research considers colonialism and postcolonial legacies in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Korea and Japan in the global context. Her book, Disavowing Empire: The Conundrum of Collaboration and Modernity in Korea and Japan (...

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    2013 Sep 26

    The Production of Everyday Life in Postwar North Korea

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 01238

    Korea Colloquium

    Cheehyung Kim, ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Duke University

    Cheeyung Kim is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Duke University, in both the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department and the History Department. Broadly, he is interested in...

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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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    2012 Nov 16

    Korean Ceramics in the International Nexus: the New Ceramic Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

    12:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

     

    Beth McKillop
    Beth McKillop is Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1992 she curated the initial installation of the Samsung Gallery of Korean Art there. Since then, she has maintained an interest in Korean...

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    2012 Nov 01

    Passion, Paradox and Propaganda: Exploring North Korean Art through Chosunhwa

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    B.G. Muhn, Professor, Art and Art History Department, Georgetown University

    During his 25 years at Georgetown, Professor B.G. Muhn has been recognized for consistently demonstrating a devotion to teaching and inspiring his students. ...

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    2012 Oct 04

    Reaching for the World: Korean/American Missionary Aspirations and Evangelical Encounters

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

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

    Korea Colloquium

    Event Poster

    Ju Hui Judy Han, Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Toronto, Scarborough

    Ju Hui Judy Han (PhD, UC Berkeley) is Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Her research interests include...

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    2011 May 05

    The Indispensably Disposable: Surplus Populations and Everyday Life in an Era of Chronic Recession

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

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

    People Involved: 

    Ken Kawashima, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
    Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

    2011 Apr 14

    Tensions between Local Mandates and the Transnational Lure: A Modern History of Women in Korea, 1876-1945

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Korea Colloquium

    People Involved:
    Hyaeweol Choi, ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies, Director of Korea Institute, Australian National University
    Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

    2011 Apr 07

    The Politics of Self-Immolation in South Korea, 1990-2010

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Korea Colloquium

    People Involved:
    Sun-Chul Kim, Term Assistant Professor, Columbia University
    Chaired by David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University

    2010 Nov 20

    The Legacy of the Ancestors: How Chosŏn-Dynasty Society Worked

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Korea Colloquium

    People Involved:
    Martina Deuchler, Professor Emerita, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
    Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Dima...

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