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    2011 Nov 12

    SamulNori Lecture/Demonstration

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Holden Chapel, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

    People Involved:
    Samul Nori (Korean Percussion and Dance Troupe)
    Katherine Lee, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Katherine Lee

    2011 Nov 11

    SamulNori Performance

    8:00pm to 9:30pm

    Location: 

    Sanders Theater, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    People Involved: 

    SamulNori (Korean Percussion and Dance Troupe)
    Presenter: World Music
    Contact Person: World Music/CRASHarts
    Contact Email: info@WorldMusic.org
    Contact Phone: 617-876-4275

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    2011 Nov 08

    The Rise of China and India: Challenges for Japanese Foreign Policy

    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 - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

     

    People Involved:
    Yanghyeon Jo, Associate Professor, Department of Asia and Pacific Studies, and Director of Center for Diplomatic History Studies, the Institute of...

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    2011 May 24

    A Comparative Approach to the Formation of East Asian Family Names and Genealogies: Looking at Korean and Japanese Foreign Family Names

    12:15pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    China Lunchtime Seminar: Visiting Scholar Presentation

    People Involved:
    Guanglin Jin, Niigata Sangyo University, Japan

    Dr. Guanglin Jin is a professor of humanities at Niigata Sangyo University in Japan. He received his PhD in interdisciplinary cultural studies from the University of Tokyo in 1997. He has published two books (co-author) and many articles on East Asian history, culture, and language. As a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center, he is conducting a comparative study on the formation of East Asian family names and...

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    2011 Apr 06

    Nation as an "Imagined and "Melancholy" Community: Folklore and Ambivalent Cultural Unity in William Butler Yeats and Sowol Kim

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute


    People Involved:
    Ill Hwan Yoon, Department of English Language and Literature, Pusan National University, Korea; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar
    Chaired by David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Elaine Witham

    Yoon Il Hwan (Ph.D., Dept. of English, SUNY-Buffalo) is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pusan National University. His expertise is in British and American romantic and modern poetry. His recent research interests include a complex intellectual and cultural history of 19th and 20th century British and American poetry, and historical materialism of social structure and cultural change reflected in Romantic and Modern writers. He has also examined the way the invention of the individual body, the emergence of colonialism, and capitalist market had made a deep impact on the psychology and poetics of the writers in the period.

    2011 Mar 16

    Functional Categories in Korean Agrammatism

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Professor Miseon Lee, Dep't of English Language & Literature, Hanyang University, HYI Visiting Scholar
    Discussant: Jesse Snedecker, John L. Loeb Associate Professor, Dep't of Psychology, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Elaine Witham... Read more about Functional Categories in Korean Agrammatism

    2011 Mar 08

    Sijo: Discover the New Haiku

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    175 North Harvard Street, Allston, Massachusetts 02134, United States

    Special Event - Sponsored by Harvard Allston Education Portal

    David McCann Profile Photo

    People Involved:
    David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature; director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University

    Introduction to the sijo poetry form.  Professor McCann will introduce the sijo form, discuss its Korean historical and cultural roots, and explore writing sijo in English.

    2011 Mar 01

    Addressing Climate Change: Korea's Green-Growth Policy

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Pound Hall 213 (John Chipman Gray Assembly Room), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    People Involved:
    Suh-Yong Chung, Associate Professor of Law and International Relations, Division of International Studies, Korea University

    Co-Sponsored by: Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Korea Institute, Harvard University... Read more about Addressing Climate Change: Korea's Green-Growth Policy

    2011 Feb 24

    A Strange Encounter: 'Blackness' and Postcoloniality in Korean Literature

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Jee Hyun An, Professor of Literature, Seoul University
    Karen Thornber, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Elaine Witham... Read more about A Strange Encounter: 'Blackness' and Postcoloniality in Korean Literature

    2011 Feb 17

    Campaign Finance Regulations, Their Role in Consolidating a Representative Democacy: Evidences from the American States

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Kihong Eom, Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyungpook National University
    James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Methods and Formal Theory, Harvard University
    Contact Person: Elaine Witham... Read more about Campaign Finance Regulations, Their Role in Consolidating a Representative Democacy: Evidences from the American States

    2010 Oct 26

    Accidental Activists: How Victim Groups Hold the Government Accountable in Japan and Korea

    12:30pm

    Location: 

    Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Program on U.S.-Japan Relations - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations

    People Involved:
    Celeste Arrington, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
    Contact Person: William Nehring

    2010 Sep 28

    Restoring Seoul's Cheonggyecheon River: The 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Award Ceremony and Reception, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    Special event at the Harvard Graduate School of Design honoring the Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul and the exhibition, which will be on view in the Gund Hall Gallery until October 17.
    Restoring Seoul's Cheonggyecheon River
    The 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Award Ceremony and Reception
    Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 PM Harvard Graduate School of Design Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street Free and open to the public!
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    2010 Apr 28

    The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea

    5:30pm

    Location: 

    Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    JungBong Choi, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts

    Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series

    2010 Apr 22

    The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    David Kim (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase)

    The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea Presents:”Uncanny Insurances: Consumption, Control, and Divination in South Korea”David Kim (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase)CGIS South Rm S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street at 4:30 p.m.Sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Department of Anthropology.

    2010 Apr 20

    The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea

    5:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Nicholas Harkness, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

    The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea Presents:“Hearing Cleanliness: Christianity, Temporality, and the Voice in Contemporary South Korea”Nicholas Harkness (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street at 5:00 p.m.Sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Department of Anthropology

    2010 Apr 07

    How the East was Won: ‘Imposed Constitutionalism’ in Japan and South Korea (1945-1948)

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

    Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk Series – Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

    People Involved:
    Kim Sung Ho, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
    Discussants: Profs. Carter Eckert and Andrew Gordon
    Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund... Read more about How the East was Won: ‘Imposed Constitutionalism’ in Japan and South Korea (1945-1948)

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