2015 Mar 23
Of Revolutions and the Sovereign People: Constitutional Founding in Japan and Korea
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138
East Asian Legal Studies Lecture

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Chaihark Hahm, Professor, Yonsei University College of Law
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2015 Mar 05
The martyr Yi Suni and early Catholics in Korea
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

Byung-Sul Jung, Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/discussant: Si Nae Park,...
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2015 Feb 11
South Korea's Quest for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: 1972-1976
10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, Cambridge, MA 02138
Project on Managing the Atom Seminar Series Presentation
Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 
Project on Managing the Atom Seminar Series Presentation
Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute

"South Korea's Quest for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: 1972-1976" 
Speaker: SeYoung Jang - Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
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2014 Oct 28

Negotiating with North Korea: Proliferation, Peninsular Stability, Power Consolidation

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 Korea Institute and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

John Park, Adjunct Lecturer, and Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

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

2014 Sep 23
Japan’s Trouble With Islands: Law, Territory, and History
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 Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Korea Institute

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Moderator: Susan Pharr...
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2014 Apr 28
Tansaekhwa and the Case for Abstraction in Postwar Korea
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Sackler Museum Room 318, 485 Broadway Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Department of History of Art and Architecture Presentation

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Joan Kee, Assistant Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan

Bio
Joan Kee, who joined the University...
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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 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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2013 Dec 04
Transition to the 'Universal' Welfare State: the Changing Meaning of the Welfare State in Korea
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard-Yenching Library, Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Lecture Series

Huck Ju Kwon, Professor, Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar

Huck Ju Kwon is Professor at the Graduate School of Public...
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2013 Nov 05

North Korea's Dual Pursuit of Nuclear and Economic Development

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Weatherhead Center USJP Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

2013 Oct 29

The State's Duty to Protect Women from Human Rights Violations: A Case of the Constitutional Court of Korea

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138

East Asian Legal Studies Lecture

Han-Chul Park, President of the Korean Constitutional Court

The talk will be in English with PowerPoint. The Q & A and discussion will be in Korean, with translation provided.

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

2013 Oct 11
Informal Workshop on Ming and Chosŏn Examination Data at Harvard
(All day)
Location: 
Knafel 354 (1737 Cambridge Street), Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the China Biographical Database Project

Civil service examination data have been used in studies of Chinese and Korean social mobility (Kracke, Ho, Chang, Park, Choe, Wagner, Song...
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2013 Sep 27
(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945
1:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Room 112 (Stubbins), Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Event Description

This interdisciplinary colloquium engages the following questions: How is Korean colonial space constructed in, and through, literature, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture? How do we know of the colonial built environment as...
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2013 Sep 27
Old Traumas, New Dilemmas: Four Asian Media Perspectives
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A forum presented by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University with the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia

Yang Xiao, Southern People Weekly (China)
Sayuri Daimon, The...
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2013 May 09
Conversation with PSY
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Institute Special Event

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard "Learning from Performers" Program & Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
* Video available for view at: https://...
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2013 May 03
The World Bank Group in Asia
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Jim Yong Kim
President, The World Bank Group; Former President, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University
 
For more information, please...
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2013 Apr 15
The Korean Diaspora: Faculty Conversations
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center Asian Diaspora Project

Panelists:
Jeannie Suk, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Ju Yon Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Harvard University
Y. ...
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2013 Mar 15
Nation and Ideology in War Times: Koreans in the Russian Far East during WWI
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Special Event

Co-sponsored by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center and the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Yaroslav Shulatov
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center of Russian and...
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2013 Mar 05
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State in Yi Sang’s "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

John Frankl
Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Chaired by David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of...
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2013 Feb 27
Cultural Exchanges between Korean and Chinese Literati in the 18th and 19th Centuries: The Fujitsuka Chikashi (1879-1948) Collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

Min Jung
Professor of Korean Literature, Hanyang University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Chaired by Wai-Yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature...
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