Events

    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 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
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    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...

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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 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
    4/5 Poster

    Mary Brinton
    Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Reischauer...

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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
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    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...

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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
    NK poster
    Ambassador Joseph Yun
    Senior Advisor, U....

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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 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
    Reischauer Lectures

    Stephen Owen...

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