Korea Colloquium

2011 May 05

The Indispensably Disposable: Surplus Populations and Everyday Life in an Era of Chronic Recession

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium - Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

People Involved: 

Ken Kawashima, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

2011 Apr 14

Tensions between Local Mandates and the Transnational Lure: A Modern History of Women in Korea, 1876-1945

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Hyaeweol Choi, ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies, Director of Korea Institute, Australian National University
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

2011 Apr 07

The Politics of Self-Immolation in South Korea, 1990-2010

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Sun-Chul Kim, Term Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Chaired by David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University

2010 Nov 20

The Legacy of the Ancestors: How Chosŏn-Dynasty Society Worked

12:00pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Martina Deuchler, Professor Emerita, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Contact Person: Dima...

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2010 Nov 04

The Legacy of Assimilation: Contemporary Misconceptions on Japan's Colonial Policy in Korea

4:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium - Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

People Involved:
Mark E. Caprio, Professor of History, Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan)
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History,...

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2010 Oct 28

Challenges of Transforming South Korea's Development Experience to Development Assistance

4:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Eun Mee Kim, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea)
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Contact Person:...

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2010 Sep 30

On the Way to Sijo: Discovering the Five Dimensions of a Poetic Form

4:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
David McCann, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
Chaired by Edwin Cranston, Professor of Japanese Literature, Harvard University
Additional Sponsors: Sunshik Min Endowment for...

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2010 Apr 01

Collecting as a Literary Discourse in Late Chosŏn Korea

4:30pm

Location: 

Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

Korea Colloquium

People Involved:
Jiwon Shin, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Chaired by David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University

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