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 May 09
2019 New Frontiers in Premodern Korea Studies Workshop
(All day)
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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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 18
Kang Kyŏng-ae, Manchuria and the Worlding of North Korean Literature
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Ruth Barraclough
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University

Professor Ruth Barraclough teaches in the Department of Pacific and Asian History at the...
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2019 Apr 11
Engineering the Moral Heart: Science and Literature in Postwar North Korea
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Dafna Zur
Assistant Professor, Korean Literature and Culture, Stanford University; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dafna Zur teaches courses on Korean literature,...
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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 Mar 07
From March First to April 19th: Enacting Memories of Anticolonial Resistance in Cold War South Korea
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Special Korea Colloquium (100th Anniversary of March 1st Movement)


Charles R. Kim
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Charles Kim is a...
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2019 Mar 05
"Park Chan-wook, Two History Lessons" with Director in Person on March 5
5:00pm to 6:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Joint Special Event co-sponsored by Korea Institute and the Harvard Film Archive

For detailed information about the series and each film, please go to the ...
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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 Feb 14
Baby Miles: Reproductive Rights, Labor, and Ethics in the Transnational Korean Reproductive Technology Industry
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs


Sunhye Kim
Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Sunhye Kim earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland in 2018....
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2019 Feb 07
State-firm Coordination and Upgrading: Reaching the Efficiency Frontier in Spain and South Korea’s Skill-, Capital-, and Knowledge Intensive Industries
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs


Angela Garcia Calvo
Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Marie Curie fellow at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Dr. Angela...
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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 06
Between Freedom and Death: Female Taxi Drivers as Cross-Gender Labor in Authoritarian South Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Porte Seminar Room (S250), 2nd Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Korea Colloquium
  
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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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