2018 Oct 11
Kim Chi-ha and the Politics of Death in South Korean Democratization
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Youngju Ryu
Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature, University of Michigan

Youngju Ryu is Associate Professor of Korean Literature at the University of Michigan. Her first book, Writers of the Winter...
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2018 Apr 19
Songs for the ‘Great Leaders’: Ideology and Political Agitation in the Music of North Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Keith Howard
Professor Emeritus, SOAS, University of London, and Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina

Professor Keith Howard is the Kent R. Mullikin Fellow at the National...
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2018 Apr 12
Rethinking World Literature through the Relations between Russian and East Asian Literatures
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium; co-sponsored by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


Heekyoung Cho
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington

Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor...
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2018 Mar 30
Intellectual History and Computing: Digital Approaches to the Study of Korean Confucianism
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium
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2018 Mar 08
Village Negotiation in Late Choson Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Matthew Lauer
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea...
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2018 Mar 01
Making a Musical Vernacular in Christian Pyongyang: Annie L. Baird’s Chyanggajip (1915) in Japan-Colonized Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium; co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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2017 Dec 04
The Future of South Korean Cinema: Thoughts and Conjectures
12:15pm
Location: 
S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Darcy Paquet
Film critic / Professor, Busan Asian Film School

Chaired by Alexander Zahlten, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard...
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2017 Oct 19
Flat Titles and Friendly 'Hoesik': Contemporary Office Culture Reforms in 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

Michael Prentice
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Michael Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist who focuses on language, management, and...
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2017 Oct 12
The Korean Trickster Figure
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Charles La Shure
Assistant Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Charles La Shure is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Korean Language and...
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2017 Oct 05
Dirty Clothes in Sacred Statues: Exploring a Buddhist Practice from the Late Koryŏ and Chosŏn Dynasties
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Youn-mi Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Ewha Womans University 

Chaired by Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard...
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2017 Sep 21
What Did the Ancestors Do? A Short Review of 'Under the Ancestors’ Eyes
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Martina Deuchler
Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London

Born in 1935, Martina Deuchler received a B.A. in Chinese and Japanese from Leiden University and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern...
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2017 Apr 13
The Disenchantment of the Global: Disillusionment in South Korean ‘Fantastic’ Cinemas
4:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Michelle Cho
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University

Michelle Cho is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and World Cinemas at McGill University. Her...
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2017 Mar 23
The Gender of Memory: Han Kang (b.1970) and Contemporary Korean Literature
4:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Ji-Eun Lee
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

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2016 Sep 29
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
4:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Jaeeun Kim
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Chaired by Paul Y. Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Abstract
Jaeeun Kim will speak about her book, ...
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2015 Apr 16
Decentering the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Albert L. Park, Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

Albert L. Park is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. A historian of modern Korea and East Asia, Dr. Park is the recipient of three...
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2015 Apr 02
Sounding Korea’s Hiroshima: Song and Verbal Art among Korean Radiation Sufferers
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Joshua D. Pilzer, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. Born in Vancouver, he grew up in Nashville, Tennessee as a popular...
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2014 Nov 06
The Significance of “Korean” Keyhole-shaped Tombs in the Study of Early “Korean-Japanese” Relations
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Dennis Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Dennis Lee received his PhD in early Korean-Japanese relations from UCLA in 2014 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Korea Institute at...
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2014 Apr 17
Return to the Orient: Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism and Aesthetic Production of “Korea” in Yi Hyo-sŏk’s Late Colonial Writings
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Mi-Ryong Shim 
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Mi-Ryong Shim is the 2013-2014 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute. She received her B.A. in East Asian Studies and her...
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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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