Events

    2023 Apr 28

    Beggar Boys, Delinquent Girls: Protestant Humanitarianism in 1950s Cold War South Korea

    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

    Paul S. ChaAssistant Professor of Korean Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23

    Chaired by Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

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    2023 Apr 27

    Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine

    12:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

    Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series
    Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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    2023 Apr 25

    Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea

    10:30am to 11:45am

    Location: 

    Online (Zoom)

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Department of History of Science, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Korea Institute

    Science and Technology Seminar Series
    Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea

    Speaker: Jaehwan Hyun, Assistant Professor of History of Science, Pusan National University
    Chair: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

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    2023 Apr 21
    2023 Apr 18

    Digital Democracy - AI in Politics

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    B-500 Land Hall, Harvard Kennedy School

    Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Talk
    Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    How are advances in technology, such as AI, machine learning and applications like ChatGPT changing democracy? How are governments gauging the changing risk of such technologies to our political systems, the ways citizens communicate and...

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    2023 Apr 03

    Korean Feminist Poetry, a reading with WGS Professor Jung Ja Choi

    3:00pm

    Location: 

    WGS lounge, Boylston Hall, ground floor, Harvard University

    Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department Talk
    Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    Learn about the fierce feminist poet who challenged Korean patriarchy in the early 1900s.

    WGS presents a conversation with Professor Jung Ja Choi about her path-breaking new book on Kim Myŏng-sun, outspoken writer and change-maker.Monday, April 3...

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    2023 Mar 14

    Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward

    Tue - Thu, Mar 14 to Mar 16, 8:30am - 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center Hall C / CGIS South Concourse Level / Harvard-Yenching Library

    Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Digital China Initiative, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Asia Center, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard College Library, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Harvard China Fund

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    Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward

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    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 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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