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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2013 Mar 14
Space and Alterity in Yi Kwangsu’s Work
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Ellie Choi
Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Cornell University
Ellie Choi received her graduate training at UCLA (MA) and at Harvard University (PhD) in modern Korean cultural and intellectual history, before working as an...
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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

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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2012 Apr 19
Affective Politics: Proletarian Aesthetics of Cartoons in 1920s Colonial Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

People Involved: 
Kimberly Chung, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Chaired by David McCann, Korea Foundation...
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2012 Mar 08
Refuge, Relief, and Resettlement in the Temporary Capital Pusan, 1950-1953
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Janice C. H. Kim, Associate Professor, Department of History, York University
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
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2012 Feb 16
From Religion to Rebellion: Tonghak in Korean History and Memory
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

People Involved: 
George Kallander, Assistant Professor of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor...
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2012 Jan 26
Breast Cancer in Korea: Experiences and Explanations
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Laura C. Nelson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University, East Bay

Chaired by Nicholas Harkness, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
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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 21

Unlikely Enemy: Korean Americans, World War II, and the Transnational Struggle for Justice on the Homefront

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

Korea Colloquium



Lili Kim, Associate Professor of History and Global Migrations, Hampshire College
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

2011 Feb 24

Hollywood, Utopia, and Hypocrisy: Perceptions of America in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1931-1945

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

Korea Colloquium



People Involved:
Yumi Moon, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, 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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2010 Nov 18
Constructing the T'oegye school: Writing, Community and Power in Late Chosŏn Korea
4:30pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Hwisang Cho, Korea Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
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2010 Nov 04
The Legacy of Assimilation: Contemporary Misconceptions on Japan's Colonial Policy in Korea
4:30pm
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:
Mark E. Caprio, Professor of History, Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan)
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History,...
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