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.

2013 Oct 24
Educating Younger Learners - An Analysis of Korean, American, and Japanese Priorities
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Leadership Forum

Sunshik Min is President of YBM, one of Korea's largest publishing and education companies. YBM and its subsidiaries publish books and magazines, including the Korean edition of National Geographic Magazine. YBM...
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2013 Oct 21
Authorship and the Location of Postwar South Korean Cinema: In the Region of Shin Films
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
East Asian Media Ecologies

Steven Chung, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Steven Chung is Assistant Professor in the East Asian Studies department at Princeton University. He focuses his...
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2013 Oct 17
“Everlasting Fraternal Friendship”: North Korea and the End of Communism
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

Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Charles K. Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the...
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2013 Oct 11
Informal Workshop on Ming and Chosŏn Examination Data at Harvard
(All day)
Location: 
Knafel 354 (1737 Cambridge Street), Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the China Biographical Database Project

Civil service examination data have been used in studies of Chinese and Korean social mobility (Kracke, Ho, Chang, Park, Choe, Wagner, Song...
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2013 Oct 10
The Economic Reintegration of the Koreas: Time to Get On With It
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

Thomas P. Pinansky, Senior Foreign Attorney (Partner), Barun Law LLC
Mr. Pinansky is the Senior Foreign Attorney at Barun Law LLC. He plays a leading role in the firm’s international practice and advises an extensive...
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2013 Sep 27
(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945
1:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Room 112 (Stubbins), Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Event Description

This interdisciplinary colloquium engages the following questions: How is Korean colonial space constructed in, and through, literature, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture? How do we know of the colonial built environment as...
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2013 Sep 27
Old Traumas, New Dilemmas: Four Asian Media Perspectives
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A forum presented by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University with the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia

Yang Xiao, Southern People Weekly (China)
Sayuri Daimon, The...
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2013 Sep 26
The Production of Everyday Life in Postwar North Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 01238
Korea Colloquium

Cheehyung Kim, ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Duke University
Cheeyung Kim is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Duke University, in both the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department and the History Department. Broadly, he is interested in...
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2013 May 09
Conversation with PSY
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Institute Special Event

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard "Learning from Performers" Program & Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
* Video available for view at: https://...
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2013 May 03
The World Bank Group in Asia
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Jim Yong Kim
President, The World Bank Group; Former President, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University
 
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2013 Apr 25
The Proletarian Wave: Leftist Literature in Colonial Korea 1910-1945
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Sunyoung Park
Assistant Professor of Korean Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Sunyoung Park is assistant professor of Korean literature and cultural studies in...
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2013 Apr 18
From Rubens to Viktor Tsoi: Conceiving an Archive of the Korean Diaspora
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs jointly sponsored with the Harvard Asia Center

Y. David Chung, Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan; Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
...
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2013 Apr 17
Five Features of Three Kingdoms Period Architecture
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Early Korea Project Lecture

Nancy S. Steinhardt
Professor of East Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy S. Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she has taught...
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2013 Apr 15
The Korean Diaspora: Faculty Conversations
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center Asian Diaspora Project

Panelists:
Jeannie Suk, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Ju Yon Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Harvard University
Y. ...
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2013 Apr 13
Art Cinema As Rebellion: Three Films by Lee Jang-Ho
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

About the filmmaker:
One of the seminal artists driving the renewal of the Korean cinema that began in the 1970s and reached full flowering in the Korean New Wave of the late 1980s and 1990's, Lee Jang-Ho (b.1945) is among the most influential filmmakers of his generation. A...
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2013 Mar 28
Bridled by the Past? The ‘History Problem’ and Korea-Japan Security Relations
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

Yongwook Ryu
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, The Australian National University
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director...
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2013 Mar 27
Archaeological Evidence of Social Inequality and Complexity in Early Korea
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Early Korea Project Lecture

Yangjin Pak
Professor, Department of Archaeology, Chungnam National University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Professor Pak received his B.A. from Department of Archaeology and Art...
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2013 Mar 15
Nation and Ideology in War Times: Koreans in the Russian Far East during WWI
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Special Event

Co-sponsored by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center and the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Yaroslav Shulatov
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center of Russian and...
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2013 Mar 14
Space and Alterity in Yi Kwangsu’s Work
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Ellie Choi
Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Cornell University
Ellie Choi received her graduate training at UCLA (MA) and at Harvard University (PhD) in modern Korean cultural and intellectual history, before working as an...
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