2018 Apr 13
Harvard Asia Center 20th Anniversary
9:30am to 6:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center 20th Anniversary; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and other Asia-related centers
 

This spring marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Asia Center. To celebrate, the Center will be hosting a day of talks and panels...
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2018 Apr 12
Rethinking World Literature through the Relations between Russian and East Asian Literatures
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium; co-sponsored by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


Heekyoung Cho
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington

Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor...
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2018 Apr 05
Korea and a Japan Divided
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs; Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs


Alexis Dudden
Professor of History, University of...
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2018 Apr 04
Korea and the U.S. Alliance System: Past and the Future
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs; Co-sponsored by the Korea Working Group at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Asia Center


Victor Cha
Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies; D.S....
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2018 Apr 02
Ritual Apparitions and a Buddhist Theory of Film
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Annual Ahnkook Lecture in Korean Buddhism; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Francisca Cho
Professor of Buddhist Studies, Georgetown University

This year's Ahnkook Lecture in Korean Buddhism explores the...
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2018 Mar 30
Intellectual History and Computing: Digital Approaches to the Study of Korean Confucianism
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium
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2018 Mar 27
Asia's Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
4:15pm to 6:15pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Forum, co-sponsored with the Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Haejoang Cho, Emerita Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University
Ishida Hiroshi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Teresa Kuan, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shen Yifei, Department of Sociology, Fudan...
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2018 Mar 24
Harvard Film Archive Film Series "The Moral Tales of Hong Sangsoo"
Sat Mar 24 (All day) to Sat Apr 14 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Film Archive Film Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


For detailed information regarding the series and each film, please go to the...
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2018 Mar 08
Village Negotiation in Late Choson Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium

Matthew Lauer
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea...
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2018 Mar 01
Making a Musical Vernacular in Christian Pyongyang: Annie L. Baird’s Chyanggajip (1915) in Japan-Colonized Korea
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium; co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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 the...
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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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs

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

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is...
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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: 
Littauer Building, Belfer Center Library, Room L369, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA 02138
Belfer Center Director's 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 Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research &...
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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, MA 02138
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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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, Harvard...
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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, Cambridge, MA 02138
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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