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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2018 Nov 27
The Honorable Caroline Kennedy - Reflections on My Time as Ambassador
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
14th Tsai Lecture; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Korea Institute, the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Tsai Lecture Fund, Harvard University Asia Center

The Honorable Caroline Kennedy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

Caroline Kennedy was the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to Japan. Her tenure from November 2013 to January 2017 was marked by the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of...
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2018 Nov 19
Breasts, Cancer, and Women in Korea, 1800–1930s
4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
B10, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Professor Soyoung Suh
Department of History and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program, Dartmouth College

Soyoung...
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2018 Oct 22
Destination: World/Powered by Pechakucha
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018; co-sponsored by Harvard’s Asia Center, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard China Fund, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 
...
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2018 Oct 17
How Can One Say the Unprecedented in Pre-Modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Reischauer Lecture Series; co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Mittal South Asia Institute, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies


Stephen Owen
James Bryant Conant...
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2018 Oct 16
Flavors of Truth and Claims of Authority
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Reischauer Lecture Series; co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Mittal South Asia Institute, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Stephen Owen
James Bryant...
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2018 Oct 09
Political Origins of Cybersecurity Capacity: Lessons from Japan and East Asia
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon 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 at the Harvard Korea Institute

Ben Bartlett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Dr. Bartlett holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Earlham College, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of...
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2018 Oct 04
Democracy When You Least Expect It: Strong State Democratization in Authoritarian Asia
4:15pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Democracy in Hard Places Seminar; co-sponsored by Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Harvard Korea Institute

Joseph Wong
Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs, a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto

Professor Joseph Wong was appointed Associate Vice-President and Vice-...
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2018 Sep 28
Harvard Track II Dialogue on Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula
9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA 02138
Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA); Co-sponsored by SBS Foundation Research Fund at the Korea Institute, Harvard Belfer Center's Korea Working Group, Seoul Forum for International Affairs
 
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

With the next inter-Korean summit and Xi Jinping-Kim Jong Un meeting scheduled for September, we...
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2018 Sep 27
Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970-1979
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
The Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Paul Chang
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Afternoon Tea with the Author: Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk is a series of...
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2018 Sep 25
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Panel Discussion Organized by Professor Arunabh Ghosh; co-sponsored with Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Harvard Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, and Mittal South Asia Institute
...
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2018 Sep 18
North Korea as a Nuclear Weapons State
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Presentation; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Vipin Narang
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant: Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs (2003-06); and Commissioner, Japan Atomic Energy Commission (2014-17)

Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of...
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2018 Jun 21
Korea in Great Transition? Diplomacy for Denuclearization and Peace-building
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Center Library, 3rd Floor of Littauer Building, Room L369, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Young-kwan Yoon, Former ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University

This Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series public event will highlight the insights of a foreign policy professional with a unique combination of experiences as a senior practitioner and a leading scholar.

Bio:
Dr. Yung-kwan Yoon served as...
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