Special and Co-sponsored Events

2024 May 19

The Poetics of Musical Interpretation

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Holden Chapel, 15 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Music Performance
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Music Department and the Korea Institute

Performances by Luke Hsu, Violin, Yehuda Inbar, Piano, and Rainer Crosett '14, Cello

With original music by Cecilia Heejeong Kim, Professor of Composition and New Media, Sangmyung University; Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Harvard University and Eun Young Lee, Associate Professor of Composition, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Generously supported by the Kim Koo...

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2024 Apr 01

From Soft Power to Strategic Alignment: Challenges of the Two Koreas and Their Global Implications

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Asia Center Seminars

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

SpeakerYaena Kwon, TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center

ModeratorRana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

Abstract: South Korea has become a soft superpower whose cultural influence keeps growing internationally and exceeds that of K-pop. When President Yoon Suk-Yeol visited the...

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2024 Mar 29

Invisible Race: Deconstructing Japaneseness and Racialization of Korean Residents in Japan

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

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

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute and the Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations

Speaker: Kazuko Suzuki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University

Moderator: Karen L. Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Many of the theories and concepts in Race and Ethnic Studies are constructed based on racial and ethnic relations in the...

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2024 Mar 06

Kim Soo-Gyong, a Korean Linguist Who Went North

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

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

Harvard-Yenching Institute Book Talk

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

Itagaki Ryuta
Professor, Doshisha University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2009-10

Chaired by Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

This talk presents the first book-length biography of Kim Soo...

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2024 Mar 20

Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia

3:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

HYI Annual Roundtable

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Korea Institute, Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Panelists:

Hyaeweol Choi (C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa)

...

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2024 Mar 18

State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Asia Center Seminars

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Speaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center 

Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School

Abstract: Drawing insights...

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2024 Mar 27

Film screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY (2021), followed by discussion in-person with Director YONGHI YANG

4:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute film screening, co-sponsored by Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations 
Film Screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY

Chair: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard...

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2024 Apr 12

Global Korea Beyond the Wave

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)

Global Korea Symposium

Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and the Harvard Korea Institute
Global Korea Symposium

Organizers: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean...

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2023 Sep 18

Panel, “The Political Economy of Energy Security and Climate Change Response: Korea and Japan in Global Perspective”

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

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

U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute

Seong-ik Oh, Director General, Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Phillip Lipscy, Professor of Political Science and Chair in Japanese Politics & Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy;...

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