2013 Oct 11
Informal Workshop on Ming and Chosŏn Examination Data at Harvard
(All day)
Location: 
Knafel 354 (1737 Cambridge Street), Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the China Biographical Database Project

Civil service examination data have been used in studies of Chinese and Korean social mobility (Kracke, Ho, Chang, Park, Choe, Wagner, Song...
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2013 Sep 27
(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945
1:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Room 112 (Stubbins), Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Event Description

This interdisciplinary colloquium engages the following questions: How is Korean colonial space constructed in, and through, literature, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture? How do we know of the colonial built environment as...
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2013 Sep 27
Old Traumas, New Dilemmas: Four Asian Media Perspectives
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A forum presented by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University with the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia

Yang Xiao, Southern People Weekly (China)
Sayuri Daimon, The...
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2013 May 09
Conversation with PSY
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Korea Institute Special Event

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard "Learning from Performers" Program & Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
* Video available for view at: https://...
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2013 May 03
The World Bank Group in Asia
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Jim Yong Kim
President, The World Bank Group; Former President, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University
 
For more information, please...
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2013 Apr 15
The Korean Diaspora: Faculty Conversations
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Asia Center Asian Diaspora Project

Panelists:
Jeannie Suk, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Ju Yon Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Harvard University
Y. ...
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2013 Mar 15
Nation and Ideology in War Times: Koreans in the Russian Far East during WWI
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Special Event

Co-sponsored by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center and the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Yaroslav Shulatov
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center of Russian and...
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2013 Mar 05
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State in Yi Sang’s "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

John Frankl
Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Chaired by David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of...
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2013 Feb 27
Cultural Exchanges between Korean and Chinese Literati in the 18th and 19th Centuries: The Fujitsuka Chikashi (1879-1948) Collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

Min Jung
Professor of Korean Literature, Hanyang University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Chaired by Wai-Yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature...
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2013 Feb 27

The Past and Future of Constitutional Adjudication in Korea

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Cambridge, MA 02138

East Asian Legal Studies Lecture (Harvard Law School)

Kang Kook Lee
President, Constitutional Court of Korea

* Please note that this talk is in Korean with English translation.

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

2013 Feb 07
East Asian Studies Senior Thesis Colloquium
11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
11:10-11:25                    Sandy XU (Advisor: Nara Dillon; Tutor: Liang Xu)
Higher Education Reform in China through the Experiences of the Class of 1977
 
11:25-11:40                    Lucia CARVER (Advisor: Tomiko Yoda; Tutor: Andrew Campana)
On Being a Lesbian: The work of Kakefuda Hiroko, the...
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2012 Nov 06
Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting National Security: An Assessment of the Policy Toolkit and Comment on Korean Military
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Weatherhead Center For International Affairs Roundtable On World Affairs

Contact Person: Nirvana Abou-Gabal
Stephen Peter Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University
Owen R. Coté, Jr...
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2012 Nov 06
Japanese Diplomacy Today: Challenges and Opportunities
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

"Institutional Change and Japanese Politics"
Tomohito Shinoda, Professor, International University of Japan
Professor Shinoda is a leading scholar of Japanese politics, Japanese foreign and national security policymaking, and...
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2012 Oct 31
Understanding North Korean Refugees' Education Experience: A contextual analysis of their hardships, failures, and resilience in South Korea
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard-Yenching Library, Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Soon-yong Pak, Associate Professor, Department of Education, Yonsei University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar
Soon-Yong Pak is an anthropologist who currently...
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2012 Sep 11
Constitutional Adjudication in the Republic of Korea
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Milstein West B, Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138

Justice Young-Joon Mok, LL.M. ’89, Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea
Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, International Legal Studies and the Korea Institute
Introductory remarks by Professor William P. Alford, ...
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2012 Apr 26
The Making of Post-Socialist Individuals: A Case of Border Crossers from North Korea
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture Series

Co-Sponsored by the Korea Colloquium and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Jaeyoun Won
Associate Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar...
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2012 Apr 24

Crisis and Wartime Behaviors: Media, Democracy, and International Conflict

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

K354, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

WCFIA Fellows Program Special Seminar; Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute

Speakers:

Kwang-Jin Kim
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellow; Colonel, Korean Air Force

Kwan hyun Moon
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellow; Journalist, Yonhap News Agency

Discussant:

Sung-Yoon Lee
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

2012 Apr 17
The Expected and the Unexpected: U.S. Grand Strategy and Asia
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
Victor Cha
D.S. Song KF Endowed Chair in Government and Asian Studies and Director of Asia Studies, Georgetown University; Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Affairs (CSIS) and Director for Asian Affairs, the National Security Council (2004-07) 
Professor Cha is a leading scholar of contemporary Korea, East Asian security, and U.S. foreign policy in Asia. His latest book is The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future ...
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2012 Apr 11
Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town: The Mundane Performances of Race and Nation
5:00pm
Location: 
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-sponsored with the Committee on Ethnic Studies

Ju Yon Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University
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2012 Mar 08
A Study on the Interchange of 5th-7th Century East Asian Gilt Bronze Buddhist Sculptures
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture Series
Co-Sponsored by the Korea Institute

Eun Gyeng Yang
Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Pusan National University
Discussant: Rowan Flad, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard...
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