2017 May 22
The U.S., China, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
4:15pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Ash Center foyer, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation event co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute 

Join the Ash Center for a discussion on the U.S., China, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula with Dr. Jin Park, a Public Policy Scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former member of the Korean National Assembly. Dr. Park will be introduced by HKS graduate ...
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2017 May 09
Surviving on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Korea Institute

Jungwon Jin, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University

About the Talk 
Despite its wide practice, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before Japanese colonial rule. In the early...
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2017 May 06
The East Asian Media Studies Conference
(All day)
Location: 
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Supported by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Korea Institute

Keynote Speakers:
Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott...
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2017 May 01
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Mon - Wed, May 1 to May 3, 4:00am - 6:00am
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 Asia Center, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Korea Institute

Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee...
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2017 Apr 25

Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

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

Harvard University Asia-related Centers Trump and Asia Series Presentation

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2017 Apr 19
Book Talk: “Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945”
4:15pm to 6:15pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Asia Center Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard-Yenching Library and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Discussants:
Andrew D. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Victor and William Fung...
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2017 Mar 28
Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Tue - Wed, Mar 28 to Mar 29, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Special Series on the Changing Face of Japan Presentation, co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Johns Hopkins University; Director, East Asian Studies Program, and co-director, Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA...
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2017 Mar 22
Asian Studies in Asia
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
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2017 Mar 21

Japan, South Korea and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

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

Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation, co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Terence Roehrig, Professor of National Security Affairs and Director, Asia-Pacific Studies Group, U.S. Naval War College

2016 Dec 05
What Next? Trump and Asia
12:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Asia-related Centers Special Event

Lynn Kuok, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution 
Sung-Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and...
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2016 Nov 01

Gender Inequality and Fertility in Japan and South Korea

12:30pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon 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

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Eunsil Oh, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Harvard University

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

2016 Apr 29
East Asia: Where Are Things Headed?
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Symposium; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Akio Takahara, Professor, Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

Victor Cha, D.S. Song-KF Endowed Chair in Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University, and Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Zheng Wang, Associate...
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2016 Apr 18
Forum Discussion on Korean Unification Preparation
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Kennedy Room, The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
ROK Presidential Committee on Unification Preparation (PCUP) Forum Discussion,co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and Korea Institute

The ROK Presidential Committee on Unification Preparation (PCUP) was founded by Park Geun-Hye, President, Republic of Korea, and Chair of PCUP. PCUP is a bipartisan body to engage experts from diverse sectors to foster a broad societal consensus on preparation for the unification of South and North Korea. Led by Ambassador Chung Chong-Wook, Vice Chair of PCUP, this is the...
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2016 Apr 12
Gangsters, Gambling, and the Korean Community in Japan: Questioning the Economic History of the Pachinko Industry
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Jaehyang Han, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar

Chair/Discussant: Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Abstract:
In Japan, even though gambling is illegal, pachinko—a form of gambling—has become ubiquitous in daily life, with spending on pachinko even surpassing the automobile market at the peak of pachinko’s popularity....
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2016 Mar 24
Megacities Asia
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Auditorium, Arthur M. Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
In collaboration with the upcoming “Megacities Asia” exhibition on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from April 3 to July 17, 2016, this event will bring together artists and academics to examine contemporary Asian megacities including Beijing, Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Discussions will focus on the built environment in these cities, how we think about concepts of modern versus vernacular, formal versus informal, and the impact  of rapid urbanization on inhabitants of cities from Mumbai to Shanghai....
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2016 Mar 21
The Spiritual Roots of Traditional Korean Music: Lecture and Performance by Visiting Artists
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Andover Chapel, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring musicologist Hilary Finchum-Sung (Seoul National University) and musicians Tae-Baek Lee, Ji-Young Yi, Wan-Chul Won, Suk-Joo Lee, and Hyun-Bin Lim
...
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2015 Nov 20

"Cultured Streets" and "Civilized Cities": Japanese Colonial Expansion and Urban Development in Tokyo, Taipei, and Seoul

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 presentation; Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and Korea Institute 

Tristan Grunow, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. History, University of Oregon 2014)

Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

2015 Nov 16
Places of Violence and Memory: Affective Mediations of the Cheju Massacre and the Korean War
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Seong Nae Kim, Professor of Religious Studies, Sogang University; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/discussant: Mary Steedly...
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2015 Nov 10
South Korea's New Demography: Implications for Democracy and Diplomacy in East Asia
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 Special Series on International Relations of East Asia presentation
Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Katharine Moon, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies and Senior Fellow, Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Professor of Political Science and Edith Stix Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies, Wellesley College

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer...
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2015 Oct 28
Korea's Role in Asia: Regional Cooperation & National Unification
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Ash Center, 2nd Floor North, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation presentation; Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute

Jin Park, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson international Center for Scholars; Chair Professor, Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Dr. Jin Park is currently a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson international Center for Scholars and Chair Professor at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies of Hankuk University of...
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