Special and Co-sponsored Events

2023 Oct 02

T. S. ELIOT MEMORIAL READING: Kim Hyesoon with Don Mee Choi

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University (Quincy Street &, Harvard St, Cambridge, MA 02138)

The Woodberry Poetry Room's 2023 T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

The Woodberry Poetry Room's 2023 T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading will honor one of the pre-eminent voices in South Korean poetry and the trailblazing author of fourteen inimitable books of poetry: Kim, Hyesoon.
Kim will read with her long-time translator -- the award-winning poet ...

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2023 Jun 08

An Introduction to Rare Korean Buddhist Books in the Harvard-Yenching Library: Focusing on Min Young-gyu, Hu Shih, and Bruno Petzold

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

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

Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk
Co-sponsored by Korea Institute

Park Younghwan, Dean, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Dongguk University; Harvard-Yenching Library Research Scholar 2023

CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jidong Yang, Librarian, Harvard-Yenching Library

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2023 Apr 27

Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine

12:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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2023 Apr 28

A Conversation with Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the Republic of Korea

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA

The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics
Co-sponsored by Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School

Join a conversation with the President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol. President Yoon will deliver a speech on the challenges to freedom and the responses to them, followed by a moderated discussion with University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus Joseph S. Nye Jr. He will then take questions from audience members.

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2023 Apr 21
2016 Feb 05

The Genbunitchi Movement and the Modernization of Korean Writing Styles, 1910-1945: Hu Shih's Influence on Korean Literati

1:30pm

Location: 

Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue

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

Gaehwa Bae, Associate Professor, Dankook University; Harvard Yenching Institute Associate

Chaired by Karen Thornber...

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2016 Feb 02

Domestic Politics and Grand Strategy in East Asia

12:30pm

Location: 

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

Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Special Series on the Future of East Asia Presentation
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Korea Institute

Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jessica...

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2023 Apr 18

Digital Democracy - AI in Politics

4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

B-500 Land Hall, Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Talk
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

How are advances in technology, such as AI, machine learning and applications like ChatGPT changing democracy? How are governments gauging the changing risk of such technologies to our political systems, the ways citizens communicate and...

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2023 Apr 03

Korean Feminist Poetry, a reading with WGS Professor Jung Ja Choi

3:00pm

Location: 

WGS lounge, Boylston Hall, ground floor, Harvard University

Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department Talk
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

Learn about the fierce feminist poet who challenged Korean patriarchy in the early 1900s.

WGS presents a conversation with Professor Jung Ja Choi about her path-breaking new book on Kim Myŏng-sun, outspoken writer and change-maker.Monday, April 3...

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2023 Mar 14

Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward

Tue - Thu, Mar 14 to Mar 16, 8:30am - 7:30pm

Location: 

Science Center Hall C / CGIS South Concourse Level / Harvard-Yenching Library

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Digital China Initiative, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Asia Center, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard College Library, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Harvard China Fund

Workshops and Conferences
Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward

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