2022 Nov 15
Controlling the Mind for Welfare in South Korea: Classroom, Computer, and Drug, 1960s–2010s
10:30am to 11:45am
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Fall 2022 roster of Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute
Youjung Shin
Assistant Professor at the Department of Science Studies, Jeonbuk National University
Moderated by Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
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2022 Oct 17
Risks Facing South Korea’s Global Companies
4:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Concourse, Harvard University (1730 Cambridge St.)
This event is part of the Korea Project’s Global Governance and Peace Seminar: Korea Political Economy and International Relations
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute
Dr. Taeho Bark
Senior Visiting Scholar, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderated by Dr. John Park, Director, Korea Project, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
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2022 Oct 14
Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
Fri - Sat, Oct 14 to Oct 15, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. 
The two-day conference will begin at 4:00 pm on Friday, October 14, 2022, and run from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The event will take place in Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute
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2022 Oct 03
Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute
Jae-Jung Suh
Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23
Moderated by Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Abstract:
In this talk, I propose to re-analyze the history of the historical contentions in Northeast Asia as that of the regional actors’ attempts to manage their differences over national...
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2022 Sep 26
Japan, South Korea, and U.S. Alliance Politics in East Asia
8:00pm to 9:15pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute
Sue Mi Terry
Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, The Wilson Center
Moderated by Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
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2022 Apr 19
Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Taiwan Studies Workshop at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute 
Jaewoong Jeon
Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Moderated by Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate
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2022 Apr 19
The Ecology of Authority: Agricultural Science and Destruction in Modern Korea
10:30am to 11:45am
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Harvard University Asia Center's Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute 

Albert Park
Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies, Claremont McKenna...
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2022 Apr 04
Zainichi Koreans in the Politics of Decolonization and Deimperialization
9:00am to 10:00am
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations seminar
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Sayaka Chatani
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore
Moderated by Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
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2022 Apr 01
Reorganizing Hard Power: The United States and the South Korean Military
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center and Kim Koo Forum on US-Korea Relations at Korea Institute

Speaker: Mesrob Vartavarian, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Discussant: ...
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2022 Mar 03
Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Korea Colloquium
Co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Seo Young Park
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College 
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2022 Feb 24
Chronotopic Formulation as Gendered Socialization in K-Beauty
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Korea Colloquium
Co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Joyhanna Yoo Garza
College Fellow of Linguistic/Semiotic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 2021-22
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2022 Feb 10
Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
SBS Seminar
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center's Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Eleana Kim
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California...
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2022 Feb 03
Korean Foreign Policy Debate: Part 2
9:00am to 10:30am
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Webinar hosted by Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School and co-hosted by the Korea Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
As the March South Korea election approaches, this virtual event will include a conversation between M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow William Overholt and Amb. Wi Sung-Lac, foreign policy advisor to South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung.
William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow...
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2022 Jan 31
Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)
Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, and Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Yves Tiberghien 
Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia
Moderated by Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan...
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2022 Jan 27
Korean Foreign Policy Debate: Part 1
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Webinar hosted by Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School and co-hosted by the Korea Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
As the March South Korea election approaches, this virtual event will include a conversation between M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow William Overholt and Dr. Kim Sung-Han (Conservative Party NSA candidate).
William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Kim Sung-Han, Dean...
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2022 Jan 24
Sweet Returns: Sugar Capitalism in South Korea and Taiwan
3:45pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar sponsored by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute  
 
Jaewoong Jeon, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
Student Commentator: Sanjay Paul, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

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2022 Jan 21
Between the Collapse of Japanese Empire and Normalization with South Korea: Reconsidering Reparations, Memories and Regional Studies Centering upon Edwin Reischauer
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk
Co-sponsored by ...
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2021 Dec 07
Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in 18th-Century Korea
10:30am to 11:45am
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
Science and Technology in Asia Seminar series sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center and convened by Professor Victor Seow, Department of the History of Science; Co-sponsored by Korea Institute, Harvard University



Jisoo Kim 
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2021 Dec 06
Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference
8:30am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
A group of academic centers and institutes that support the study of Asia at Harvard University will jointly host the Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference via a virtual platform on Monday, December 6, 2021.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Reischauer Institute of Japanese...
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2021 Nov 16
Back to the Water's Edge? Historicizing Current American Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Online (Zoom)
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