2015 Oct 20
Japan’s Response to Nuclear North Korea and Rising China
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 and International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science...
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2015 Oct 05
Sustainable Development in the Carbon-Constrained World
4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center Special Event, co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea

Moderator: Ezra F. Vogel,...
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2015 Sep 05
Nepal – In Memoriam
Sat - Thu, Sep 5 to Oct 29, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 
Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Exhibit and Fundraiser for Nepal

Photographs by Grzegorz Ekiert
Ongoing exhibit through October 29. Closing reception and fundraiser, Thursday, October 29, 5:00 p.m.

This exhibit is designed to raise funds for the Harvard University’s South Asia Institute Nepal...
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2015 Aug 24
Urban Futures in Asia: Aspiration, Speculation, Contention
(All day)
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Sponsors: 
Korea Institute, Harvard University
Asia Center, Harvard University
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG)
Participants...
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2015 May 27

Human Rights in South Korea: Past Trends, Present Realities, and Future Possibilities

2:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Seminar Room 450, Cambridge, MA 02138

Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, SSK Human Rights Forum, and the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Organized by Paul Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

For a detailed schedule, click here.

2015 May 08
What Decision Should Korea Make in 2017? Korean Politics & the Next Presidential Election
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
NYE A & B, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA 02138
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School Presentation; Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute

Hyong-O Kim, Republic of Korea’s Former Speaker of the National Assembly

Hyong-O Kim served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea between 2008 and 2010. He served five consecutive terms as a member of the National Assembly between 1992 and 2012 during which he served as the Floor Leader of the Grand National Party (2006 – 2007), Secretary General...
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2015 May 01
A Dialogue on Modern Korea: Sewol Ferry Disaster
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Sever Hall 2016, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gaongil: Harvard Undergraduate Modern Korean Studies Conference

Advised by John Song Pae Cho, Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Generously supported by the Young-Chul Min Memorial...
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2015 Apr 07
Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900
4:15pm to 6:15pm
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

Kären Wigen
Frances & Charles Field...
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2015 Mar 31
The U.S. Strategy Toward an Evolving Asia
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Stephen Bosworth, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

...
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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.

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