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 Sep 09
"Korean Cinema and Transnationality" Film Series
Tue Sep 9 (All day) to Wed Dec 3 (All day)
Location: 
Room 212, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Film series for Korean Cinema and Transnationality: Conference Course (East Asian Film and Media Studies 121) 
with Hyangjin Lee, Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

This...
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2014 Jun 07
New Generations, New Ideas in Korean Studies
Sat Jun 7 (All day) to Mon Jun 9 (All day)
Location: 
CGIS South Building, Cambridge, MA 02138
10th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop

8:15 – 8:45 a.m.         Breakfast & Registration

8:45 – 9:00                ...
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2014 May 02
Korean Literature Symposium: Crossing Borders
8:15am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Reading Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sponsored by Korea Institute, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard University Asia Center

Schedule:
8:15 – 8:45  Breakfast & Registration

8:50 – 9:00  ...
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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 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 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 Apr 07
Gallery Talk & Exhibit by Professor David R. McCann
Mon - Mon, Apr 7 to May 5, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 
First Floor Lounge Gallery, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
“What is this?”
An exhibit by David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature


April 7 - May 5, 2014
First Floor Lounge Gallery, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

Curated by David R....
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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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2014 Mar 06
Some Missing Pieces in the Mid-1960s Korean Development Story
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, East Asian Legal...
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2014 Feb 27
Transformation and Sustainability of East Asian Development Model: The Cases of Korea, China, and Japan
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Hyungkee Kim
Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Professor Kim’s research interests include methodology of...
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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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2014 Feb 10
Mountain Monasteries & Metropolitan Meditation Centers: A Century of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea
5:15pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Religious Identities in Asia Series

Mark Nathan
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Abstract
In recent years, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism has been promoting a form of...
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2013 Dec 13
Harvard Korean Art History Workshop 2013: "Infinite Interfusion: Buddhist Art in Korea"
9:00am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Organized by the Korea Institute
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Art History Program and Harvard-Yenching Institute

Schedule

9:30 – 11:30                Session I:...
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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 21
Engaging North Korea with Soft Power: Knowledge Sharing with Pyongyang
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Kyung-Ae Park, Korea Foundation Chair, Institute of Asian Research; Director, Centre for Korean Research, The University of British Columbia
Professor Kyung-Ae Park holds the Korea Foundation Chair at the...
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2013 Nov 14
Fruits and Challenges of Adhesively Skeletonizing a Church Community: Korean Americans in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Religious Identities in Asia Series

Timothy S. Lee, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Brite Divinity School (Texas Christian University)
Timothy S. Lee received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and is now Associate...
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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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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 31
New Perspectives on the Archaeology of State Formation in Japan
(All day)
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Shin’ya FUKUNAGA (Professor of Archaeology, Osaka University): "Keyhole-Shaped Tombs and the State Formation of Japan (ca. mid-third to seventh century A.D.)"
Akira SEIKE (Professor of Archaeology...
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