2019 Nov 07
The U.S. and Korea: An Unfinished Story
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
15th Tsai Lecture; Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

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2019 Oct 30
Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Common Room (1st floor), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Nicholas Harkness
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Afternoon Tea with the Author: Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk is a series of events in which Harvard faculty...
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2019 Oct 29
The Perils of Populist Nationalism: Japan and Korea in a New Era
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Special Panel Discussion; jointly sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S. Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies


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2019 Oct 16
“Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


John Park, Director, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Dr. John Park ...
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2019 Oct 15
Exceptional Subjects: Koreans in the Russian Far East and the Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Historian's Seminar Series; Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Sergey Glebov, Associate Professor of History, Smith College and Amherst College

Sergey Glebov is a historian of imperial Russia and Soviet Union. His first research project focused on the history of the Eurasianist movement, a Russian emigre ideological group which reimagined the imperial space in the wake of the revolution of 1917 as a geographic, historical, ethnographic, and linguistic unity....
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2019 Oct 10
Destination: World Powered by PechaKucha
4:15pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Worldwide Week event co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, Center for African Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard China Fund, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Office of FAS International Affairs, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs,...
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2019 Oct 10
Transwar Continuities of Colonial Intimacy: Korean-Japanese Relationships in Korean Cinema in the 1960s
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room (1st floor), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk Series; co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute

Su Yun Kim, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20

Su Yun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Korean Studies Program at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Hong Kong, specializing in modern Korean literature and culture. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University...
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2019 Oct 07
Thinking with Technology from the History of Korea
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Porte Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


Jung Lee
Associate Professor, Institute for the Humanities, Ewha Womans University

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2019 Sep 27
Signs of Race, Racializing Signs
(All day)
Location: 
Tozzer Anthropology Building, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
The 2019 Roman Jakobson Symposium; co-sponsored by the Asia Center, the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and the Kim Koo Forum at the Harvard Korea Institute

For more than a century, ...
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2019 Sep 25
“What if North Korea Attacked? Japanese, South Korean, and U.S. Public Opinion on the Nuclear Umbrella"
10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Center, L-324 Fainsod Room, 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Project on Managing the Atom Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


Stephen Herzog, Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School

Stephen Herzog is a Ph.D. candidate in...
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2019 Sep 24
Japan and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 0128
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation, co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund
Narushige Michishita, Vice President; Director of Security and International Studies Program; Director of Strategic Studies Program; Director of Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Moderated by Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government...
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2019 Apr 22
Writing Asian America: A Reading and Conversation with Three Poets
4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
S030, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Asian American Studies Seminar Series; Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Asian American Studies Working Group


Tamiko Beyer
The author of the poetry collections ...
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2019 Apr 05
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women's Employment and Fertility in Japan and South Korea
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute


Mary Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese...
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2019 Apr 01
Korean Poetry in Translation: Writing and Translating Poetry
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
The Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

David McCann
Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University

Afternoon Tea with the Author:...
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2019 Mar 26
Preserving Asia's Colonial and Modern Architectural Heritage
4:15pm to 6:15pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable; co-sponsored with the Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Chao-Ching Fu
Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Hyon-sob Kim
Professor, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea

Chen Liu
Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19

Thant Myint-U
Writer, Historian,...
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2019 Mar 12
Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia, 1919
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Joint Special Event; co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, the Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund at the Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
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2019 Feb 28
Hanoi Summit: The Start of Real Negotiations?
10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
T-520 Nye A (Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School)
Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series; co-sponsored by SBS Foundation Research Fund at the Korea Institute
With the Hanoi Summit now confirmed, the Belfer Center will be convening a Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series event to assess summit outcomes.

Katharine H.S. Moon, Professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies, Wellesley College; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy, The Brookings Institution
John Park, Director, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in...
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2019 Feb 26
Endlings
Tue Feb 26 (All day) to Sun Mar 17 (All day)
Location: 
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 01238
A.R.T. Subscription Season - World Premiere Play; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos—sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. They have no heirs to their millennia-old way of life. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a...
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2019 Jan 29
Three Deities Faith and Distribution of Scriptures in the Late Chosŏn: Based on the Collection of Holy Spirit Writing
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Jihyun Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National University

Jihyun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. She received her B.A. (1999) from the Dept. of Religious Studies, Seoul National University and disciplined in Master Course at the same institution. She obtained her M.A. (2005) and Litt. D. (2010) from Kyoto University, majored in Chinese...
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2018 Dec 05
Engaging North Korea: What are the Current Signposts Telling Us?
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Asia Beyond the Headlines series; co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund, Harvard Asia Center, and Korea Working Group at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center

Ambassador Joseph Yun
Senior Advisor, U.S. Institute of Peace...
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