2020 Apr 09

[CANCELED] - Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION***



 

2020 Mar 25

[CANCELED] - Fearing the Worst: How War in Korea Transformed the Cold War

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Room S354, 3rd Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION***

Cold War Studies Seminar; sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute’s SBS Foundation Research Fund


2020 Mar 05
Millennial North Korea: Cell Phones, Forbidden Media, and Living Creatively under Surveillance
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs


Suk-Young Kim
Professor of Theater and Performance Studies; Director of the Center for Performance Studies, UCLA

Suk-Young Kim's research interests cover...
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2020 Mar 02
Film Screening of “Shusenjo”
4:15pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Film Screening & Discussion with the Director; jointly sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

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2020 Feb 25
Prayers for Divine Protection: The Temple God (1885) of Hŭngch’ŏnsa and the Cult of Guan Yu
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Seunghye Lee
Curator of Buddhist Art, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art

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2020 Feb 20
Korea’s America: A Power Intertwined with Korean Sovereignty, 1882-1945
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
SBS Seminar


Hanmee Na Kim
Assistant Professor of History, Wheaton College

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2020 Feb 06
Film Screening: Jeronimo
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Film Screening & Discussion with the Director; organized by the Harvard Korean Association and co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Korea Institute at Harvard University
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2020 Feb 06
Scholarly Dissidence in Early Chosŏn: Disengaging Scholars and Alternative Ways of Serving
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Diana Yuksel
Assistant Professor of Korean Language and Literature, University of Bucharest; Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University

Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, ...
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2019 Dec 06
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art: Continuity and Transformation
9:00am to 4:15pm
Location: 
Porte Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Harvard-Dartmouth Korean Art History Workshop 2019


Organized by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University, and Sunglim Kim,...
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2019 Nov 19
Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith...
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2019 Nov 14
A Sublime Disaster: The Sewŏl Ferry Incident and the Politics of the Living Dead
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Korea Colloquium


Hyun Ok Park
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

With archival and ethnographic research, her research investigates global...
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2019 Nov 07
The U.S. and Korea: An Unfinished Story
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
15th Tsai Lecture; Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University

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2019 Nov 06
Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Programs in Korea Information Session
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge St.
Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Programs in Korea Infomation Session for Harvard undergraduate students
Come learn about the various Korea Institute undergraduate opportunities in Korea for summer 2020. Hear also from some returnee students!
Summer Internships
Harvard Summer School in Seoul Program
Summer Research Travel Grants
Summer Language Study Grants [Ewha Womans University-EISC Tuition Waivers]
Korea Institute Undergraduate Scholarship to attend SNU International Summer Program [SNU-ISP Tuition Waiver...
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2019 Nov 01
Han Youngsoo: Photographs of Korea, 1956 – 1963
Fri Nov 1 (All day) to Tue Dec 31 (All day)
Location: 
1st Floor Asian Centers' Lounge, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Art Exhibit


November 1 - December 31, 2019
1st Floor Asian Centers' Lounge, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Curated by Susan Baik
Special Thanks to Holly Angell...
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2019 Oct 31
The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs


Monica Kim
Assistant Professor of History, New York University

Monica Kim is Assistant Professor in U.S. and the World History in the Department of History at New York University....
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2019 Oct 30
Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Common Room (1st floor), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Nicholas Harkness
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Afternoon Tea with the Author: Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk is a series of events in which Harvard faculty...
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2019 Oct 29
The Perils of Populist Nationalism: Japan and Korea in a New Era
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Special Panel Discussion; jointly sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S. Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies


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2019 Oct 17
The Circulation of Japanese Texts in Colonial Korea and Their Impact on Vernacular Publishing
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs; co-sponsored by The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies


Michael Kim
Professor of Korean History, Yonsei University

Professor Kim received an A.B. in History with honors and...
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2019 Oct 16
“Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series; co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


John Park, Director, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Dr. John Park ...
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2019 Oct 15
Exceptional Subjects: Koreans in the Russian Far East and the Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138
Historian's Seminar Series; Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Sergey Glebov, Associate Professor of History, Smith College and Amherst College

Sergey Glebov is a historian of imperial Russia and Soviet Union. His first research project focused on the history of the Eurasianist movement, a Russian emigre ideological group which reimagined the imperial space in the wake of the revolution of 1917 as a geographic, historical, ethnographic, and linguistic unity....
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