Past Events

Na Sil Heo | Raising Korea’s Children: Cold War Liberalism and Decolonization in Postwar South Korea

October 22, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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

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Korea Colloquium Na Sil Heo Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina Na Sil Heo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches East Asian and global history. Her...

Theodore Hughes | Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

October 15, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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

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Korea Colloquium Theodore Hughes Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Columbia University Theodore Hughes is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Literature...

Jaran Shin | The Economics of Bloodline: Language, Social Class, and the Racialization of Damunhwa Youth in South Korea

October 5, 2026

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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT

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(In-Person) Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute Jaran Shin Associate Professor, Department of Applied English Linguistics and Translation Studies, Kyung Hee University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27 Chair...

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Clark W. Sorensen | Reflexivity in Long Term Fieldwork: Centering on Western Kangwŏn Province, South Korea

October 1, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Hybrid

SBS Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences Clark W. Sorensen Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington Clark W. Sorensen, Professor Emeritus at the University of...

Jungyoon Kim | Alternative Nature: Landscape Architecture of PARKKIM

September 9, 2026

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1:00PM - 2:00PM EDT

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Frances Loeb Library, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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"Ongoing Quest" Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design's Book Talk | Alternative Nature: Landscape Architecture of PARKKIM Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute A conversation between Jungyoon Kim, Associate...

9th New Frontiers in Premodern Korea Studies Workshop

June 1, 2026

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6:00PM - 11:00PM EDT

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Online (Zoom)

Virtual

Korea Institute, Harvard University 6:00 pm – 6:15 pm Opening Remarks 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Paper Presentation 1 Haejeong Yoon (University of Kansas), “Reimagining the 1795 Pontoon Bridge: A Material-Ecological Perspective” Discussant: Charlotte Horlyck (SOAS...

Ilsoo Cho | Making of an Alternative Genealogy? A Copy of "The Records of Eminent Confucians" at the Harvard-Yenching Library

April 30, 2026

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4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT

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Online (Zoom)

Virtual

Korean Treasures at Harvard Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard-Yenching Library Ilsoo Cho Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Korean and Japanese History, Department of History, Brandeis University Ilsoo Cho is a Florence Levy Kay...

Jeehyun Choi | Dubbing Utopia in the Early Korean American Novel

April 23, 2026

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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT

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(In-Person) Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard's Novel Theory Seminar and Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities Seminar Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute Jeehyun Choi, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University Jeehyun Choi...

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Sean C. Kim & Ilisa Barbash | From SPAM™ to K-Pop: The Korean War and the Rise of Modern South Korea

April 23, 2026

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6:00PM - 7:00PM EDT

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Hybrid

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Free Hybrid Book Presentation Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute Sean C. Kim , Professor of History, University of Central Missouri Ilisa Barbash, Curator of...

William O'Grady | Jejueo: Korea’s Lost Language

April 23, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Hybrid

Wagner Special Lecture William O'Grady Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William O’Grady is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is well known for his writings on...

Shin Hae-uk and Oh Eun | The Sound of Korean Poetry Now

April 22, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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(In-Person) Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard's Rethinking Translation Seminar Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute Funded by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and Moonji Publishing Co., Ltd Shin Hae-uk Poet and Professor of Creative Writing...

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Artificial Intelligence in South Korea: An Interdisciplinary Study

April 16, 2026

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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT

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

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Korea Colloquium Abstract: Graduate and Undergraduate Research Fellows at the Harvard Korea Institute present their current findings on artificial intelligence in South Korea. Offering perspectives from across the social sciences and humanities, these...