Special and Co-sponsored Events

2015 Feb 11

South Korea's Quest for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: 1972-1976

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, Cambridge, MA 02138

Project on Managing the Atom Seminar Series Presentation

Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 
Project on Managing the Atom Seminar Series Presentation
Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute

"South Korea's Quest for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: 1972-1976" 

Speaker: SeYoung Jang - Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
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2014 Sep 23

Japan’s Trouble With Islands: Law, Territory, and History

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation

Event Poster

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

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Moderator: Susan Pharr...

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2014 Feb 18

Korea's Search for Security

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Weatherhead Center Program on U.S-Japan Relations Presentation

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs, Korea Institute

Sung-Yoon Lee
Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Karl Friedhoff
Program Officer, Public Opinion Studies Center, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese...

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2013 Dec 04

Transition to the 'Universal' Welfare State: the Changing Meaning of the Welfare State in Korea

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Harvard-Yenching Library, Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Harvard-Yenching Lecture Series

Event poster

Huck Ju Kwon, Professor, Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar

Huck Ju Kwon is Professor at the Graduate School of Public...

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2013 Nov 05

North Korea's Dual Pursuit of Nuclear and Economic Development

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Weatherhead Center USJP Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

2013 Oct 29

The State's Duty to Protect Women from Human Rights Violations: A Case of the Constitutional Court of Korea

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138

East Asian Legal Studies Lecture

Han-Chul Park, President of the Korean Constitutional Court

The talk will be in English with PowerPoint. The Q & A and discussion will be in Korean, with translation provided.

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

2013 Oct 11

Informal Workshop on Ming and Chosŏn Examination Data at Harvard

(All day)

Location: 

Knafel 354 (1737 Cambridge Street), Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Korea Institute, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the China Biographical Database Project

Event Poster

Civil service examination data have been used in studies of Chinese and Korean social mobility (Kracke, Ho, Chang...

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2013 Sep 27

(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945

1:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Room 112 (Stubbins), Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Event Description

This interdisciplinary colloquium engages the following questions: How is Korean colonial space constructed in, and through, literature, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture? How do we know of the colonial built environment as...

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2013 May 09

Conversation with PSY

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Korea Institute Special Event

Event Poster

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard "Learning from Performers" Program & Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

* Video available for view at: https://...

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2013 May 03

The World Bank Group in Asia

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Event Poster

Dr. Jim Yong Kim
President, The World Bank Group; Former President, Dartmouth College

Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University
 
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2013 Mar 15

Nation and Ideology in War Times: Koreans in the Russian Far East during WWI

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Special Event

Event Poster

Co-sponsored by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center and the Korea Institute, Harvard University

Yaroslav Shulatov

Visiting Scholar, Davis Center of Russian and...

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2013 Mar 05

This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State in Yi Sang’s "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Harvard-Yenching Institute Lecture

Event Poster

John Frankl
Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Chaired by David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of...

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2013 Feb 27

The Past and Future of Constitutional Adjudication in Korea

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Cambridge, MA 02138

East Asian Legal Studies Lecture (Harvard Law School)

Kang Kook Lee
President, Constitutional Court of Korea

* Please note that this talk is in Korean with English translation.

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

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