2018 Feb 22
Mars and Manna: Defense Industry and the Economic Transformation of Korea under Park Chung Hee
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Peter Banseok Kwon
Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Korea Institute; Adjunct Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Peter Banseok Kwon is...
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2018 Feb 21
Meeting China Halfway: The Future of the Korean Peninsula and Beyond
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
S020 Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Critical Issues Confronting China Series; Organized by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Lyle Goldstein
Associate Professor, Strategic Research Department, Naval War...
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2018 Feb 15
Art, War and Diplomacy – Early Discoveries and Collecting of Goryeo Art in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Wagner Special Lecture

Charlotte Horlyck, Lecturer in Korean Art History, SOAS/ Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellow of Art History

Charlotte Horlyck was...
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2018 Feb 06
The Changing Security Landscape on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for Tokyo, Beijing, and Washington
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Spring Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

John Park
Director, Korea Working Group and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS

Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (...
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2018 Feb 02
A roundtable discussion on Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk, co-sponsored with the Asia Center, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Korea Institute

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2018 Feb 01
From Refugees to Citizens? Migration & Resettlement of North Korean Defectors Beyond the Korean Peninsula
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Academy Scholars, Harvard Academy for International & Area Studies; Assistant Professor, University of Missouri

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2018 Feb 01
Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Korea's Strategic Dilemma between U.S. and China
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
John F. Kennedy School of Government - Littauer Building, Belfer Center Library, Room L369
Belfer Center Directors' Luncheon

Chaibong Hahm
President, the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, Korea

Chaibong Hahm is the President of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, South Korea. Previously, he was a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, Professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the Director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of... Read more about Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Korea's Strategic Dilemma between U.S. and China
2017 Dec 04
The Future of South Korean Cinema: Thoughts and Conjectures
12:15pm
Location: 
S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Korea Colloquium

Darcy Paquet
Film critic / Professor, Busan Asian Film School

Chaired by Alexander Zahlten, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard...
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2017 Nov 30
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
4:15pm to 6:15pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University Asia-related Centers Trump and Asia Series Presentation; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Ronak Desai, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, India and South Asia Program,...
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2017 Nov 30
Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Porte Seminar Room (S250), 2nd Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Asia Center Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center Presentation

Jie Li
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Discussant: Carter...
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2017 Nov 14
“Transformation of Familialist States in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain”
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation, co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute

Margarita Estevez-Abe
Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
2017 Nov 13
Old Partner
4:15pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
S354, 3rd Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Film Series on Aging in Asia, co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute, and South Asia Institute


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2017 Nov 09
"Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents"
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Jordan Siegel
Associate Professor of Strategy, University of Michigan
Yujin Jeong
Assistant Professor of International Business, American...
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2017 Nov 01
"Travelogue From Cheju Island"
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
The Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk

Sun Joo Kim
Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Director, Korea Institute
...
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2017 Oct 27
"An Alternate View of the North Korea-U.S. Relationship"
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Asia Beyond the Headlines

 
The Honorable Donald P. Gregg
Former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea; Former National Security Advisor, former CIA officer; Chairman; Pacific Century...
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2017 Oct 26
“What was Different from Former Uprisings?: Candlelight Demonstration in 2016 and 2017”
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

Tae Gyun Park
Kim Koo Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2017-18, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Korean History, Graduate School of International Studies...
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2017 Oct 19
"Flat Titles and Friendly 'Hoesik': Contemporary Office Culture Reforms in South Korea"
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Korea Colloquium

Michael Prentice
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Michael Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist who focuses on language, management, and...
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2017 Oct 13

"The Ondol Problem and Politics of Conservation in Colonial Korea"

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation, co-sponsored by Korea Institute

David Fedman
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Moderator: Ian J. Miller, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

2017 Oct 12
"The Korean Trickster Figure"
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Korea Colloquium

Charles La Shure
Assistant Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Charles La Shure is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature...
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2017 Oct 11
"Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities: Healthcare Delivery in Africa and Asia"
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Africa-Asia Roundtable

William P. Alford, Vice Dean, Graduate Program and International Legal Studies,...
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